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\u2018His is not merely a rhetorical stance: Bolton actively conspired during his tenure as the Bush administration\u2019s policymaker on Iran from 2002 through 2004 to establish the political conditions necessary for the administration to carry out military action\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2018Bolton\u2019s high-profile advocacy of war with Iran is well known. What is not at all well known is that, when he was under secretary of state for arms control and international security, he executed a complex and devious strategy aimed at creating the justification for a U.S. attack on Iran. Bolton sought to convict the Islamic Republic in the court of international public opinion of having a covert nuclear weapons program using a combination of diplomatic pressure, crude propaganda, and fabricated evidence\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This fanatic also wants war with North Korea.<\/p>\n

Germany must be looking forward to finally being the good guys in a world war.<\/p>\n

In other news, Christianist-with-a-death-wish Anne Graham Lotz says the US deserves to be hit with nuclear weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, in reward for their devotion to this warmongering idiot, Christianists got a dose of Planned Parenthood funding betrayal with a side dish of Conscience Protection Act stab-in-the-back in the GOP budget.<\/p>\n

If this lot gets their way, generations yet unborn will include curses against them in the Good Friday liturgy for what these criminals want to bring on the world.<\/p>\n

Destroy this party in November and get rid of this pack of kooks before they kill millions.<\/p>\n

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