In Case You Missed This: John Bolton: Gaza Crisis Means We Should Attack Iran Now

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Yesterday, on Fox’s Hannity and Colmes, Iran war hawk John Bolton said that Israel’s recent bombing campaign in Gaza is all the more reason for the United States to bomb Iran now. “So while our focus obviously is on Gaza right now, this could turn out to be a much larger conflict,” he said, adding that “we’re looking at potentially a multi-front war here.”

“You would strike Iran right now?” asked host Alan Colmes. “I would have done it before this,” Bolton responded. Colmes asked whether tensions and war across Middle East would escalate if the U.S. or Israel were to bomb Iran. Bolton said that the many Arab countries would secretly be cheering if Iran were attacked:



Watch it:

Video at link: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/30/bolton-iran-israel/

It’s hard to believe that the Arab world would be pulling out the party hats if Iran were attacked. Thanks to the policies of President Bush, the U.S is immensely unpopular across the Middle East. Iran, on the other hand, enjoys unprecedented support in Iraq, which is supposed to be America’s greatest ally in the region.

The LA Times reported last year that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “has transcended national and religious divides to become a folk hero across the Middle East.” Ahmadinejaded, “the leader of a non-Arab Shiite nation, has ingratiated himself with the Middle East’s predominantly Sunni Arab population.”

Without regard for the wider war and increased regional instability that an attack on Iran would likely cause, Bolton believes the solution to a Middle East already in flames is to throw more wood on the fire.

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Link: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/30/bolton-iran-israel/

One wonders how many other Neo-Cons see it this way.

:shrug:

Might as well take out Lebanon and Syria while they're at it.

It should be there tommorrow. It has medicine. If the Israelis sink it all hell will break loose. I keep googling for info on the ship but get nothing.

Iranian Suicide Bombers Seek To Attack Israel

TEHRAN, Iran — Hard-line Iranian student groups have asked the government to authorize volunteers to go carry out suicide bombings in Israel in response to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/31/iranian-suicide-bombers-s_n_154435.html?page=3

neighboring countries that don't get into the mix. I guess military might is right after all. Maybe China and Russia have to step up.

http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSLV538165

-- Iran said it had dispatched its first planeload of aid, including medicine, to Gaza on Sunday and a ship was also carrying aid to the Gaza Strip, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said.

But it's dated 12-31, so I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for.

The pope is Catholic. That means we should attack Iran now.

Bears shit in the woods. That means we should attack Iran now.

The Lions suck. That means we should attack Iran now.

Does anyone else here detect a pattern regarding Bolton's "analysis?"

jk

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we should bomb Iran right now...

You forgot one. :)

The man has probably been a limpdick sending others off to fight since the '70s.

The chickenhawks are all alike that way.

Double secret greeted as liberators quietly without ever knowing? I am in. Disregard all of my previous posts.

Never has sixteen days seemed like such a long time.:scared:

Other than a pile of elephant dung?

:shrug:

That chicken-shit sociopath wouldn't last a day as a combatant. Not a day.
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you sick fuck

Is he an outlier, or does he reflect the thinking of many more here, and in Israel?

:shrug:

:crazy:

Bolton is a neocon through and through. Neocons thrive on chaos, since, after the bombs have been dropped, cleaning up the mess and the infrastructure is very lucrative. (Provided they actually do clean up the mess.)

One of PNAC's initiatives was to create and shape an armed services with the capability of going all-out in at least two major fronts at the same time.

but now he's just a talking head and not a policy maker.