Bolton: Senate Should Kill Arms Reduction Treaty
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Bolton's speech was restrained - he hit Obama, to be sure, but at least didn't push for an Iranian bombing run. This is odd - he's never hesitated to call for aggressive, military action against the Iranian regime in the past. I wonder how the room might have reacted.
Next: The "What is Conservative Foreign Policy" panel.
Posted at 11:12am by Tim Mak
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Last line: "We will not let you reduce American sovereignty, we will not let you make America vulnerable, and... we will prevail over all enemies, foreign and domestic!"
Posted at 11:04am by Tim Mak
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Bolton on the threat of international taxes: "once the American people lose their right to determine whether we are taxed, we have lost the revolution, my friends!"
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Bolton: Climate change legislation advocates would be proposing the same thing if the earth was warming, the earth was cooling, or the temperature wasn't changing at all! It is a statist agenda that we have to reject!
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Bolton: Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty will be brought again to the Senate - and it should be defeated in the Senate just like when it was brought in during the Clinton years. The treaty jeopardizes America's ability to test current stocks of weapons for safety, and prevents us from developing new weapons to protect ourselves, he says.
Posted at 10:53am by Tim Mak
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Bolton: Obama likely to announce strategic arms reduction deal with Russia soon.
We need to kill it when it comes to the Senate, he says to applause.
Posted at 10:51am by Tim Mak
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Bolton: Obama has left Israel in a more perilous position after thirteen months than it was in when he started.
Obama is naive for his obsession with negotiation, argues Bolton.
But he only has three years left, says Bolton. "I say that very confidently."
Posted at 10:49am by Tim Mak
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Bolton laments Obama's continuation of Bush's Iranian non-proliferation strategy. He argues that you cannot negotiate Iran out of getting nuclear weapons.
Posted at 10:47am by Tim Mak
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"Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call," says John Bolton. "Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe."
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"He's the first post-American president," says Bolton. It's not about patriotism, but because he doesn't believe in American exceptionalism.
Posted at 10:40am by Tim Mak
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Bolton: On Jan 20, 2009, Barack Obama wasn't qualified to be the President of the United States.
Today, thirteen months later, he's STILL not qualified to be President!
"He doesn't really care about foreign policy issues. He addresses (them) when he needs to," says Bolton, but they don't interest him.
Posted at 10:38am by Tim Mak
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Steps on stage and immediately notes former Secretary of State Alexander Haig died.
The crowd sighs loudly.
Posted at 10:35am by Tim Mak