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John Bolton is a POS (vanity, obviously)
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Posted on 08/30/2013 7:51:28 PM PDT by Leaning Right

Greta was in for O'Reilly tonight. One of her guests was John Bolton. Greta asked Bolton if Obama had the authority to strike Syria without Congressional approval. Bolton didn't hesitate for a second. He said Obama absolutely has that authority.


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KEYWORDS: 911truthers; bolton; empirestrikes; iran; israel; lebanon; randsconcerntrolls; russia; syria; unitedkingdom; vanity; waronterror; warpowersact
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

61 posted on 08/30/2013 9:07:38 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Leaning Right

I don’t understand this answer from Bolton at all...

I hope he is playing bait and switch with Obama.


62 posted on 08/30/2013 9:08:59 PM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: Leaning Right

There is precedent....when was the last time Congress declared War?


63 posted on 08/30/2013 9:28:12 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Chode
"that was what he was asked.."
agree...to the point/concise.

64 posted on 08/30/2013 9:33:01 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: doc1019
Regarding your previous post, no offense taken, so no apology necessary.
65 posted on 08/30/2013 9:34:23 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Chode
It was aliens?

::blush:: ☺

66 posted on 08/30/2013 9:37:29 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: CyberAnt

Agreed. Bolton is definitely on our side.


67 posted on 08/30/2013 9:42:41 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: Leaning Right

Bolton plays for new world order’s conservative team. He’s a Yale-educated lawyer who’s a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

So much of what he says will be a conservative view, and he’ll always be “hawkish” in terms of American foreign policy. His “job” is to help whip up the conservative base into calls for war whenever new world order wants to use the US military or CIA clandestine ops to handle a military job for them.

I love many of his conservative views, but after new world order’s 20th century of war, I think it’s high time the nations of the world kick new world order to the curb.

What a novel idea - each nation actually working for itself, in its own best interest, instead of being manipulated by transnational financial oligarchy puppetmasters.


68 posted on 08/30/2013 10:10:45 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: Leaning Right

Bolton is right. The Constitution gives Congress the sole authority to declare war, but also it also gives the President plenary military authority as the commander in chief, with Congress having the ultimate say through the appropriations process. Thus the Supreme Court reasoned that the President can order military action without a declaration of war, but with Congress able to cut off funds if they do not want the action to take place or to continue.


69 posted on 08/30/2013 10:23:46 PM PDT by Rockingham
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70 posted on 08/30/2013 10:24:24 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Leaning Right

Please let me know the time on the video that supports your post.

I listened twice and did not here it.

Bolton is 100% against attacking Syria.

http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/video/video-amb-john-bolton-on-the-record-2/


71 posted on 08/30/2013 10:28:31 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Leaning Right

Bolton skewered Obama in that interview.


72 posted on 08/30/2013 10:36:38 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Leaning Right
Firing missiles at sovereign nation is an act of war. You must get Congressional approval first, as the the Constitution requires. Or you must show that the target nation is an imminent threat to the US, as the War Powers Act requires.

Congress has formally declared war exactly five times.

Yet USA has used military force many hundreds of times, though on some of those occasions Congress approved the actions by means less than a Declaration.

The first such event was the Quasi-War with France under John Adams.

73 posted on 08/30/2013 10:47:03 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Leaning Right

I think 3/4 of you have become knee jerk idiots. Now attacking John Bolton, one of the most solid people alive today?

Conservative presidents including Ronald Reagan, have always supported the president’s right to act as Commander in Chief.


74 posted on 08/30/2013 11:02:36 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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75 posted on 08/30/2013 11:03:19 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Leaning Right
Bolton is correct.
Get over it!

Get an education.
76 posted on 08/30/2013 11:07:08 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Alien (movie) ripped that off...so obvious!


77 posted on 08/30/2013 11:11:11 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: TexasGator
Please let me know the time on the video that supports your post.

I don't think you have the correct video. The video from your link was stamped 08/30/2013 at 7:00 AM. Bolton was interviewed by Greta during O'Reilly's time slot: 08/30/2013 at 8:00 PM.

Bolton is 100% against attacking Syria.

Agreed. My problem with Bolton is that he strongly feels that Obama has the right to attack Syria entirely on his own.

78 posted on 08/30/2013 11:17:49 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Yosemitest

Sorry, but I’m not swayed by an enormous cut-and-paste.


79 posted on 08/30/2013 11:20:59 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Only LIBERALS use the term "neo-con".
There is NO SUCH THING as a "new conservative".
Conservative values have NOT changed since the foundation of this country.
80 posted on 08/30/2013 11:26:15 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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