John Bolton is crazy. That’s the only thing I can surmise from this column, which advocates that Israel strike militarily against Iran’s nuclear capability. You remember Bolton, a member of the Bush foreign policy team that took us into Iraq and destroyed our international credibility.
Why he is being given a platform in The Washington Post at this point to spew his poison is beyond me.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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But attempts to conduct a hand count were repeatedly blocked by the Bush-Cheney team, culminating with Bolton’s Dec. 9 announcement, “I’m here to stop the count.” A few days later, the U.S. Supreme Court would stop the count permanently, with a pro-Bush ruling in which five Republican-appointed justices, in the words of noted attorney Vincent Bugliosi, “committed the unpardonable sin of being a knowing surrogate for the Republican Party instead of being an impartial arbiter of the law.”
Whoops, this part should have come first, sorry for presenting things out of order.From Marc Perkel Rantz:“I’m with the Bush-Cheney team, and I’m here to stop the count.”Those were the words John Bolton yelled as he burst into a Tallahassee library on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2000, where local election workers were recounting ballots cast in Florida’s disputed presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore.Bolton was one of the pack of lawyers for the Republican presidential ticket who repeatedly sought to shut down recounts of the ballots from Florida counties before those counts revealed that Gore had actually won the state’s electoral votes and the presidency.The Dec. 9 intervention was Bolton’s last and most significant blow against the democratic process.The Florida Supreme Court had ordered a broad recount of ballots in order to finally resolve the question of who won the state. But Bolton and the Bush-Cheney team got their Republican allies on the U.S. Supreme Court to block the review. Fearing that each minute of additional counting would reveal the reality of voter sentiments in Florida, Bolton personally rushed into the library to stop the count.