The time Tony Benn made John Bolton squirm in his seat.

[Crowman2009]

Unfortunately Tony Benn is no longer with us. RIP

[mountain grammy]

1. That was outstanding.

Thank you..

[blake2012]

2. Terrific butt paddling of Bolton by that gentleman

[kag]

3. Thanks for posting.

I had never seen this, but it was indeed prescient.

Oh, and Bolton is still an ass.

[stonecutter357]

4. K&R

[pennylane100]

5. That was absolutely brilliant.

I believe that Tony Benn was formerly called Anthony Wedgwood Benn, and came from a very wealthy and privileged family. His father was a viscount and and I not sure if he inherited that title but if he did, he must have renounced it and changed his name to Tony Benn because of his strong distaste for Briton's class system. A great man and a great politician. John Bolton was toast the moment he started to debate him.

[Silver1]

6. Brilliant.

The world needs more like him. Actually, we have them, but they aren't given much opportunity or reach.

[Hulk]

7. Cut from the same cloth as rumsfeld and cheney and nugent...

Cowards who never had the courage to answer the call of their country to face war and death in the face; but continue to call for more war and death to throw someone else’s children into.

A loud mouth, half educated tyrant who longs for power and fame at any cost...TO YOU!

[Drunken Irishman]

8. And we can add Afghanistan to the list of wars where America was beaten.

[dae]

9. TY for sharing. Loved seeing Boltons arse handed to him.

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. From what I can gather, the only people who were under threat

from Saddam Hussein were the political class. The general public who kept their heads below the parapet enjoyed something of a welfare-state, e.g. with a free national health service, superior to that of the US today, where one cancer victim can destroy the finances of a family and the life-savings of older folk. But you would know more about the truth on that subject than Me.

However, it does remind me of something Malcolm Muggeridge I believe, mentioned in his two volume biography, namely that Pandit Nehru had admitted to a British big-wig - it might have been Churchill - that when Britain invaded and colonised India, they were welcomed by the poor. I expect the women, too, since they put an end to suttee - though it's hardly a haven for women today. In the case of Iraq and Saddam, however, he had been protecting the mass of the people from the open-ended greed of our heroes of capitalism, while the US, UK and other allies all but destroyed the country, precisely because of it.

[Crowman2009]

11. Re-upping this again in case some people think Bolton is a good person.

Let's not forget this asshole is a war criminal. If you want to read his book that bad, wait until it gets to the library.