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May 16, 2019 - Steve Pieczenik
04:27
OPUS 150 Bolton and Pompeo You're Fired!
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Hi.
Mr.
Trump, as somebody who voted for you and somebody who's been a veteran in many areas of combat and crises, I'm asking you to trust your judgment.
You said a week ago he wanted to fire Bolton and Pompeo.
You are correct.
They're incompetent and they're dangerous to this country.
Let me explain why.
I've told you why Bolton is a chicken hawk, didn't want to serve in the Iran war, didn't want to serve in the Iraq war, didn't want to serve in Afghanistan, didn't want to serve in Vietnam.
Bolton has always said, let's go to war, but he's not the one who's going to go in the forefront.
He's a coward, but he's more important than a coward.
He's incompetent.
He has always been incompetent.
He was known to be a joke in the several administrations I was in.
You can ask Richard Arminage.
You can ask all the intelligence operatives who worked with him.
He is a complete joke, but he's a danger to this country.
Let me explain why.
He voted for the war in Vietnam, but he didn't want to go to war in Vietnam.
That was 55,000 men killed, a quarter of a million men wounded.
He voted for the war in Iraq.
That was 12 years of a war.
And he voted for the war in Afghanistan.
That was 17 years.
Between Iraq and the Afghanistan war, Bolton himself, not anyone else, is responsible for the death and mutilation of 60,000 of our American soldiers.
Not including hundreds of thousands of civilians, both American and foreigners.
That is your John Bolton, an incompetent, discreant, miscreant who has really failed this country.
Now, Mr.
Pompeo, who claims he went to West Point and was number one, is also a disaster.
We, the American public, funded him For several years at West Point, he didn't turn out to be anything great other than number one, but he didn't really serve his country.
What did he serve?
He served himself because he's self-aggrandizing and he's a manipulator.
Let me explain why.
When he left West Point, what did he do?
He started up a company, but it wasn't any company that an entrepreneur would create.
It was a company that was funded by Bain Capital, Mitt Romney's group, Netanyahu's group, and guess who else?
The Koch brothers.
So he really didn't do anything on his own.
Then he became a politician, a congressman.
Then he was supported by a guy named Frank Gaffney, another chicken hawk, and the brand of Richard Pearl and John Bolton, a man who says, let's go to war, but he himself is a draft dodger.
So we have all these draft dodgers who want to go to war in Iran, and you are...
Believing what they say.
If the Abraham Lincoln carrier goes from the Persian Gulf into the Straits of Hormuz, you and I know very well that the Iranians might provoke the carrier.
You have four B-52 bombers in Qatar.
We don't need that.
We don't need to get into a war or a conflict with Iran.
There will be no regime change.
Bolton does not know how to do a regime change.
It's been already over a year where he can't even get rid of Maduro in Venezuela.
Neither can Pompeo.
He's incompetent.
Mike is incompetent.
Let me tell you how incompetent Pompeo is.
He's one of these Catholic inaction groups.
But he's Catholic.
So is Bolton.
So is Gaffney.
All the boys who want to go to church and want to say...
Pray to Jesus, but at the same time make sure that we die on their behalf.
Let me explain what he did.
He hired Michael DeAndrea, a man who was faulted at Camp Perry at the CIA. But more importantly, DeAndrea was head of the Iran study group, and guess what he did?
He was responsible for the death of seven of my CIA operatives in the Middle East.
That's Mr.
DeAndrea General Mattis says that the most important six inches in the battleground Is in between your ears.
So use your head, Mr.
President, and fire Bolton and Pompeo.
That's what you wanted to do, and that's what you must do.
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