Steve Pieczenik - OPUS 150 Bolton and Pompeo You're Fired!
Aired: 2019-05-16
Duration: 04:27

[00:00:01]  Hi.
[00:00:02]  Mr.
[00:00:03]  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.
[00:00:10]  You said a week ago he wanted to fire Bolton and Pompeo.
[00:00:15]  You are correct.
[00:00:16]  They're incompetent and they're dangerous to this country.
[00:00:20]  Let me explain why.
[00:00:21]  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.
[00:00:32]  Bolton has always said, let's go to war, but he's not the one who's going to go in the forefront.
[00:00:37]  He's a coward, but he's more important than a coward.
[00:00:40]  He's incompetent.
[00:00:41]  He has always been incompetent.
[00:00:43]  He was known to be a joke in the several administrations I was in.
[00:00:48]  You can ask Richard Arminage.
[00:00:49]  You can ask all the intelligence operatives who worked with him.
[00:00:53]  He is a complete joke, but he's a danger to this country.
[00:00:57]  Let me explain why.
[00:00:58]  He voted for the war in Vietnam, but he didn't want to go to war in Vietnam.
[00:01:02]  That was 55,000 men killed, a quarter of a million men wounded.
[00:01:06]  He voted for the war in Iraq.
[00:01:09]  That was 12 years of a war.
[00:01:11]  And he voted for the war in Afghanistan.
[00:01:13]  That was 17 years.
[00:01:15]  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.
[00:01:26]  Not including hundreds of thousands of civilians, both American and foreigners.
[00:01:32]  That is your John Bolton, an incompetent, discreant, miscreant who has really failed this country.
[00:01:40]  Now, Mr.
[00:01:41]  Pompeo, who claims he went to West Point and was number one, is also a disaster.
[00:01:47]  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.
[00:01:56]  What did he serve?
[00:01:57]  He served himself because he's self-aggrandizing and he's a manipulator.
[00:02:02]  Let me explain why.
[00:02:04]  When he left West Point, what did he do?
[00:02:06]  He started up a company, but it wasn't any company that an entrepreneur would create.
[00:02:11]  It was a company that was funded by Bain Capital, Mitt Romney's group, Netanyahu's group, and guess who else?
[00:02:18]  The Koch brothers.
[00:02:19]  So he really didn't do anything on his own.
[00:02:22]  Then he became a politician, a congressman.
[00:02:25]  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.
[00:02:36]  So we have all these draft dodgers who want to go to war in Iran, and you are...
[00:02:42]  Believing what they say.
[00:02:44]  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.
[00:02:54]  You have four B-52 bombers in Qatar.
[00:02:58]  We don't need that.
[00:02:59]  We don't need to get into a war or a conflict with Iran.
[00:03:03]  There will be no regime change.
[00:03:05]  Bolton does not know how to do a regime change.
[00:03:08]  It's been already over a year where he can't even get rid of Maduro in Venezuela.
[00:03:13]  Neither can Pompeo.
[00:03:15]  He's incompetent.
[00:03:16]  Mike is incompetent.
[00:03:18]  Let me tell you how incompetent Pompeo is.
[00:03:20]  He's one of these Catholic inaction groups.
[00:03:23]  But he's Catholic.
[00:03:24]  So is Bolton.
[00:03:25]  So is Gaffney.
[00:03:26]  All the boys who want to go to church and want to say...
[00:03:29]  Pray to Jesus, but at the same time make sure that we die on their behalf.
[00:03:33]  Let me explain what he did.
[00:03:35]  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?
[00:03:48]  He was responsible for the death of seven of my CIA operatives in the Middle East.
[00:03:54]  That's Mr.
[00:03:55]  DeAndrea General Mattis says that the most important six inches in the battleground Is in between your ears.
[00:04:19]  So use your head, Mr.
[00:04:21]  President, and fire Bolton and Pompeo.
[00:04:24]  That's what you wanted to do, and that's what you must do.