© Raw StoryJohn Bolton
His appointment was a genuine Bolton from the blue (so to speak). After all, everyone knew that former U.N. Ambassador (and Fox News commentator) John Bolton couldn't be chosen for a major post in the Trump administration. No, not because of his outlandish views on war-making, or his
responsibility for helping launch an invasion of Iraq that would result in
possibly a million deaths over these last 14 years, or the
uprooting of millions more, or the
destruction of some of Iraq's great cities, or the unsettling of vast regions of the Middle East, or the spread of outlandish terror groups, or even his yet more
outlandish insistence that such an invasion was the right thing to do, or because, as
TomDispatch regular U.S. Army Major Danny Sjursen reports today, he's likely to do it all over again in Iran (or elsewhere), but because of his mustache. Donald Trump reportedly
rejected Bolton back in 2016 as a possible secretary of state because he simply didn't look the part. He didn't seem to the president-elect like someone who came from
central casting, as did say Marine Corps General James ("Mad Dog") Mattis. And it was assumed that Trump would pass over Bolton again when it came to replacing Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, his national security adviser.
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