Comments on: John Bolton, in West Palm, says Obama shouldn’t be credited for Osama kill

By: All that said

All that said — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:29:17 +0000

Any President that did not spend a minute in the military should bow out of the subject. No one has the right to try to put them in the place of someone who goes into harms way to defend their country. I believe that Obama is intelligent, however I have no respect for him as a leader

By: kelly

kelly — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:13:46 +0000

That Romney would let Bolton anywhere near his campaign should tell you all you need to know about what a Romney presidency would look like: all war, all the time.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:05:44 +0000

Simple question? Who is Bolton? What has he ever done? Did he serve our country? Does he have the guts to put his Fat butt on the line and is this traitor allowed to where my flag on his lapel?

By: BustedUpGrunt

BustedUpGrunt — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:57:13 +0000

Bush and crew decided against sending our Rangers in for a 2-prong hammer/anvil strike on bin Laden in Tora Bora in Dec ’01.
Our spec ops dets had eyes on bL in Tora Bora at the time.
Instead, Bush wanted the Afghans to get the credit for the hit action and held our Rangers back…ie, a political decision made in Washington DC, doomed to fail.
So of course the Afghan Pushtuns let their muslim brother bin Laden slip away into Pakistan.
Now how many US lives, limbs, and shattered minds did that cost us til we got bL 10 years later?….not to mention a few more war-cost dollars since then.
I personally witnessed that debacle of the “10,000 mile-long DC screwdriver” decision from Camp Rhino, outside of Kandahar…so don’t say we couldn’t have planted bL in ’01.
We had bL by the short hairs then.
Darn right I’m bitter.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:54:09 +0000

Millions died, on the instructions of the Zionists and pro Zionists like Bolton, country of Iraq was completely destroyed, many innocents were imprisoned, tortured in hundreds of torture chambers. AND NOW THESE SAME THUGS TELL US THAT THERE NEVER WAS ANY “AL QAEDA”
http://russianfreedomforum.lefora.com/2012/09/11/after-millions-died-they-now-admit-that-there-neve/

By: V Paul Smith Jr

V Paul Smith Jr — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:11:51 +0000

@ SweetSue: “Obama made the call. Bush could have and did not. Enough said!!!!!!”

Seriously? Bush couldn’t have because the MILITARY hadn’t found him yet. The only reason that Obama was able to hake that call was because the MILITARY eventually found him…not Obama. If you don’t understand that, you are stupid. ‘Enough said!!!’

By: Tom Lowe

Tom Lowe — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:46:48 +0000

John Bolton is a racial supremacist, a bona fide war criminal, an insufferable blowhard, and a mindless cretin. => John Bolton is the perfect traitor dupe for Israel.

By: Arnold S

Arnold S — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:11:20 +0000

Your going to be OK Bolton as soon as they remove that nail from your head.

By: quote correction

quote correction — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:04:19 +0000

Maybe this quote:
…no major international incidents directly threatening the United States have occurred since Obama’s been in office.

Should read:
…no major international incidents directly threatening the United States have occurred *BECAUSE* Obama’s been in office.

Just a thought…

By: S. Marlberg

S. Marlberg — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:55:12 +0000

Wow. “OBL was killed while Obama was president but not because of it.” While intelligence threads did start (and dry up) under the Bush administration, ultimately the intelligence matured and planning occured under the Obama administration. And Mr. Obama, as sitting Commander in Chief, authorized the operation. What part of this and the chain of command (where the POTUS makes the call and accepts the risk) does Mr. Bolton not understand?

By: Over.taxed.poor.american.

Over.taxed.poor.american. — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:46:52 +0000

We all know bush was americas bigest failure .he wasint even invited to mitts nash con.we need to regulate rich corp american sell outsan make them bastards pay there fair share.an quit rideing on the backs of the poor an middle class people.we need to build good american manufactoring jobs an quit letting the rep corp trash sell us out to china an india .its the corp republicans game to deregulate america to sell us all out .so theres only poor an rich.they whant to privatise evreything to benifit them an if you cant afford a good edjucation your on your owne we dont need another war mongering corp tax cheating american sell out like mitt romney.lets wake up america an taje back evreything .and put that proud stamp made in america by americans again back on the shelfs cause what we use to make is long gone cause of them corp tax cheating american rep sellouts..god bless america and mr and mrs obama.signed a poor over taxed american……

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:46:43 +0000

Aside from the name-dropping, we sent a SWAT team to take down a middle aged man in pajamas with a pistol. Bringing him back to face a public military trial would have been an accomplishment. As it is with the ‘sea burial’ it is impossible to prove it even actually happened. And as far as ‘courage’ goes don’t tell me John McCain or even Fritz the Cat wouldn’t have done it better than Obama.

By: levi

levi — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:37:42 +0000

Im not surprised because boltons always been crazy. But the scary thing about it is he was actually speaking to a crowd hinging on every word @ the kravis center, that should scare u n give u some insight as to how these folks are thinking. But one good thing about this is that it reminds the country about George W. Bush (the person really responsible most of this mess)…..it’s also insulting for this crazy fearmonger to think people are stupid enough to buy his B/S again…..well @ least most of us.

By: PulSe

PulSe — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:28:45 +0000

John Bolton ? You mean the man who helped drive America’s standing in the world – straight into a trench ?

Why would any intelligent person listen to what this backward man has to say ?

By: thebob.bob

thebob.bob — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:25:12 +0000

No credit to Obama? Bolton will happily credit GW Bush for keeping America safe in spite of all evidence that he did no such thing.

Bolton is so extreme, even most Republicans have written him off.

By: KSP9116318

KSP9116318 — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:07:09 +0000

Obama took an incredible risk, by authorizing this mission. One helicopter crashed. Everyone on board could have been killed, and Osama could have escaped. I wonder, who would Mr. Bolton have blamed, if that had happened? My guess, he would put 100% of the blame on Obama. And, he would claim that this one failure was proof that Obama didn’t have the national security knowledge to be president.

By: Chagrined

Chagrined — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:01:45 +0000

Mr. Bolton does not have the moral nor intellectual capacity to speak rationally. He is a NEGATIVE to America! He has no shame. At long last, he has no decency!

By: Bhaskar

Bhaskar — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:52:35 +0000

As Commander-In-Chief, the President is fully and solely accountable for all successes and failures of any military operation, covert or otherwise. He makes the call to go ahead, and should it have failed (the risks were enormous) – he’d have taken all the heat. Surely you know that Mr Bolton ?

By: jakiamik

jakiamik — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:27:23 +0000

bolton is a complete partisan wonk. but what do you expect from the neocon hate and isolation machine called the republican party? in a new poll out today, 15% of those calling themselves republicans think that mitt romney was responsible for killing osama bin laden….

By: commonsense....

commonsense.... — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:25:48 +0000

Two things are certain:

1. John Bolton deserves NONE of the credit for bringing Osama bin Laden to justice.

2. Had Willard M. Romney been President, bin Laden would still be alive, plotting to murder innocent men, women, and children around the globe.

By: stevewieters

stevewieters — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:10:24 +0000

I just get fed up with all the bickering and who’s responsible for killing Osama. UncleBill should have done it in the 90′s. But that may have not stopped 9/11.

By: wain

wain — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:01:51 +0000

john you are a sick man.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:56:04 +0000

The fact that Romney is letting this whacko act as a surrogate and is using him to “help Romney shape his national defense message” is a big reason to be afraid of a Romney presidency. He will surrond himself with nut jobs like Bolton and the US and its citizens will be in real trouble.

By: wendy

wendy — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:41:21 +0000

Every time John Bolton opens his mouth, he reveals himself to be a moronic, partisan hack. Bush admitted in so many words that getting BinLaden was not a priority for him. Obama made it a priority and then took the huge risk of calling for the hit when there was a huge chance that the mission would blow up in his face. If it hadn’t gone well, you can be damned sure Obama would have gotten the blame. He absolutely gets credit for its success.

By: larry

larry — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:22:10 +0000

Why not? Hes responsible for all bush’s other mess’s! and obama is the one who gave the go ahead, So bolton needs to shut his pie hole.

By: jack

jack — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:03:48 +0000

…and Truman, of course, should not be credited with using the atomic bomb to bring an end to WWII; Churchill and Roosevelt obviously should not be given credit for the invasion of Normandy…

By: Archie

Archie — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:41:36 +0000

Osama was already dead you sheep. Obama was supposed to pull troops out of Iraq in the first place and still hasn’t done it fools. What better way to cover up black hawk down in another invaded country. Think about it, they had already started killing Osama’s leaders long before they got him. Bush should have killed that ghost on his watch.

By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:34:08 +0000

Obama got lucky on BinLaden. If it had not been for the Pakistany Dr that gave the heads up, Osama would still be alive. They had been looking for this guy since 1993 with no luck. Thanks to Clinton’s failure, we had 9/11. So don’t give Obama the credit please!

By: Ben B Boothe, publisher of Boothe Global Perspectives

Ben B Boothe, publisher of Boothe Global Perspectives — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:31:28 +0000

Bolton,
This man is obsesses with getting news coverage and for 10 years has nothing to say. His play book of sentences must be written by the Koch brothers. You can count on Bolton to be trite, speaking from the dark ages, with a pinch of bitterness. The bitterness is that no one in ( or out) of goverment wants him. The main stream press overloaded with him years ago and now smaller local papers carry him. If there were an approval rating for political hacks he probably would even do poorly there. I have velvet seen or heard him honor his president or act like a patriot.

By: Mike Valente

Mike Valente — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:57:08 +0000

John WHO?!
Bolt-on?
Oh,like Frankenstein’s head….
What a great ‘recess’ appointment he was.
Now please just go away, and take Cheney with you.
Two traitors who succeeded in bringing torture back to the USA. They should be shot w/o blindfolds.