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BumRushDaShow

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6. "Bolton was low hanging fruit. He's not really aligned with anyone."

Reply to underpants (Reply #2)

Sun Aug 24, 2025, 09:25 AM

Aug 24

Oh he's aligned alright. With the PNAC neocons who have so far been shoved under the bus but haven't gone away. The Rumsfeld/Cheney/Shrub crowd -

Partial list of people associated with the Project For The New American Century.

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Bolton, John R. - Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
History: Senior Vice President of the American Enterprise Institute. Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs for the Department of State under Bush Sr. Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice under Reagan.

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And who was the co-founder of that? Why Bill Kristol, who is a ranting and raving anti-45er.

But agree that this was done - in the same month in fact - as a tit-for-tat for the raid of Mar-a-Lago.

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