Friday, March 30, 2018

Hiring Bolton Is The Biggest Mistake Trump Has Made

(This cartoon image of John Bolton is by Carlos Latuff at mintpressnews.com.)

Does Donald Trump want a war? I believe he does. He wants a war he can call his own, and he wants to use it to save his own butt from being impeached. There's no other reason why he would hire someone like John Bolton to be his national security advisor (one of the closest aides to the president). Bolton is a war lover, and is not even opposed to using nuclear weapons -- and he's been very open about it.

I'm convinced that Trump's hiring of Bolton is just another step toward a war.

Here are five reasons why Bolton is not fit to be the national security advisor. It is from an article in 2016 on his being unfit to be Secretary of State, but it applies equally well to his new job. It was written by Eric Boehm and appeared in Newsweek.

1. Bolton was a primary cheerleader of the Iraq War and stands for everything Americans rejected about the Bush administration's foreign policy.

2. Bolton wanted the U.S. to go to war with Cuba over WMDs that also didn't exist.

3. Bolton really, really wants to bomb Iran. 

4. President Barack Obama followed Bolton's terrible advice about Libya, and then Bolton blamed Obama for the resulting mess. 

5. Bolton suggested Israel should unleash nuclear weapons against Iran. 

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