Today I received
the below E-Mail from John Bolton soliciting contributions for the RNC and
became so incensed that I fired back the below response explaining why Draft
Dodging Chicken Hawk Bolton was the wrong person to use for fund raising and
why he was the wrong messenger for talking about why the Democrats and
especially Hillary Clinton are soft on National Defense. Here is that exchange.
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 1:20 PM
To: 'John Bolton'
Subject: RE: Act now before it’s too late
To: 'John Bolton'
Subject: RE: Act now before it’s too late
Sir,
To be equally blunt, I am a retired
Army Colonel Vietnam Vet and life long Republican so please DO NOT insult me by
sending me an appeal for a donation from a self described Vietnam Draft Dodger
and Chicken-Hawk like John Bolton!
It’s a little difficult for us real Vet to take Uber-Chicken-Hawks like John
Bolton seriously when he discusses today’s conflicts although I must admit he
did demonstrate a certain “Military expertise” by his uncanny ability to “avoid
armed conflicts” in his youth by doing everything short of maiming himself
(which he didn’t have the guts to do) to avoid any brush with danger when his
Country needed him during the Vietnam War.
Born in 1948, John-Boy Bolton reached draft age in 1966 at the beginning of the
real US involvement in Vietnam
and when the War was still very popular but instead of subjecting himself to
the draft, he enrolled at Yale. Over the next four years while the
fighting raged, John-Boy was the campus big advocate of Vietnam engagement while enjoying
four years of uninterrupted student deferments. In 1970 when his
deferments ran out, he drew a low draft number but wanted to go to law school
so John-Boy was sufficiently connected politically to get a highly a coveted
position in the Maryland National Guard thus ensuring he would never be exposed
to danger. Now Reservists and Guardsmen are likely to be called up and
serve in a war zone but during Vietnam,
they had about as much chance of going to Vietnam as being struck by
lightning.
John-Boy wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book "I confess I had no desire to
die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost."
He later explained that he decided to avoid service in Vietnam because
"by the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that
opponents of the Vietnam War had made it certain we could not prevail, and that
I had no great interest in going there to have Teddy Kennedy give it back to
the people I might die to take it away from." Of course John-Boy
could have gotten in on the ground-floor of the conflict in 1966 and anytime
before 1970 to help ensure a different outcome.
I would add that I went to Vietnam
as a young second lieutenant in 1968 and extended there to come home a rather
older and wiser Captain in 1970 and I can assure John-Boy that the War had NOT
been lost by 1970 when he refused to serve. Rather the Vietnamese were
beginning to hold their own with reducing American direct combat support and it
was not until the Democrat Congress completely cut off support to the South
Vietnamese Army in 1974 while Soviet and Chinese increased their support to the
North that the ARVN began losing ground.
Hence, if even today John-Boy is still so misinformed about Vietnam and is not
even ashamed of his deplorable personal conduct during that War even to the
point of slurring those of us still serving in 1970, why should I believe
anything he says today.
Please NEVER again send me anything signed by John Bolton or any other draft
dodging chicken hawk of his ilk!
COLONEL, US Army Retired
From: John Bolton
[mailto:volunteer@action.gop.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 11:04 AM
Subject: Act now before it’s too late
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 11:04 AM
Subject: Act now before it’s too late
I’ll be blunt: we’re heading down a dark and
dangerous path. The 2016 election is the make-it or break-it point for our
nation’s future. It’s critical to reversing the failures of the Obama
presidency and preventing a repeat in another Clinton White House.
I'll be blunt: we're heading down a dark and dangerous path.
The 2016 election is the make-it or break-it point for our nation's future. It's critical to reversing the failures of the Obama presidency and preventing a repeat in another Clinton White House.
That's why it is urgent you help the RNC meet their critical end of quarter goal before midnight on June 30.
The Obama-Clinton rudderless foreign policy has weakened our national defense, leaving us susceptible to our enemies. And it has diminished our standing on the global stage, causing America to lead from behind.
What we've seen time and time again under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is this pattern of indecision, and worse, inaction. They have been so blinded by their own radical ideology that they can't even formulate a real strategy for taking on the world's enemies.
What this world needs now more than ever is American leadership. But to restore American leadership, we must elect a Republican to the White House.
We need a president who will defend the country. We need a president who will defend our core values. And we need a president who puts our national security at the center of every policy decision.
To make this happen, we need you to step up and act before Tuesday's deadline.
We must fuse our intense desire to win the White House with our need to keep House and Senate majorities that can support our conservative policies.
Act before it's too late: contribute to the RNC today.
Thanks,
Ambassador John Bolton
