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There was a pause.
"We know where your kids live. You have two sons in New York."
Bolton declined to comment on the story, his spokesperson instead referring The Intercept to a section from his 2008 memoir which in no way contradicted Bustani's account of the interaction.
Who would do such a thing? Who would threaten an official's children in order to advance a pervasively evil military intervention based on lies? Only an actual, literal psychopath. Someone with no conscience, no morals, no empathy, no humanity.
Bolton still maintains that the disastrous and unforgivable Iraq invasion was a great idea and aresounding success. And he's not lying. To him, it was a resounding success, because his goal was death and destruction. He is a psychopath and a lover of death. This is who is guiding this administration's approach to Iran.
It is bizarre to me that everyone isn't talking about this all the time. It's bizarre that Trump's political opposition prefers to spend all its energy diddling nonsense about someone's assistant vice secretary buying a used car from a lady whose neighbor's dog's veterinarian might possibly have been Russian, but you can't see the evidence for it because the evidence is secret, when this president has appointed an actual murderous psychopath to his highest advisory position. At least on a grassroots level this should be what rank-and-file anti-Trump #Resisters are talking about.
But they don't. Because the so-called "Resistance" is astroturf from top to bottom, and it's being driven by a corporatist establishment media machine that serves the same depraved oligarchy as John Bolton. In a healthy society someone like Bolton would be kept in a cage and never let out without being strapped to a gurney with a leather mask over his mouth like Hannibal Lecter. In this society, he is a celebrated official. He is the establishment.
@GeraldoRivera on Iran: "I think that we have totally picked the wrong enemy in the Middle East." #TheFive pic.twitter.com/FsKIgsVWWF
-- Fox News (@FoxNews) August 7, 2018
Surprisingly, Bolton's false narrative that Iran is the top terrorism sponsor was disrupted today by none other than Geraldo Rivera on none other than Fox freaking News. I'm going to type out a transcript of the brief exchange, because getting anything resembling truth on the Fox News lie factory is a small miracle whenever it occurs, and should be documented for posterity.
"I think that our entire policy vis-a-vis Iran is bankrupt," Rivera said on Fox's The Five. "I think that we have totally picked the wrong enemy in the Middle East. In my experience in decades of war reporting, the nuisance, the evil doer, is Saudi Arabia. It was the Saudi Arabians who were the 9/11 hijackers. They're ISIS, they're al-Qaeda, they're al-Shabaab, it's the Sunni Saudi Arabians who are the real problem. The Iranians, I believe we can do business with them. They're the sheiks of Rodeo Drive in southern California. They're the Persians."
The other panelists, who were visibly distressed during this spiel, were no longer able to contain themselves and began to interject comments like "There can be more than one problem!" and "It's the regime in Iran we have the problem with!"
"I think we really have gone -- " Rivera struggled over the interruptions. "We've been bought and purchased by the Saudis. The Saudis have bought and purchased American foreign policy."
It was sloppy. It was Fox News sloppy. It was old-conserative-guy-talking-
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