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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 06:50 AM
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John Bolton desperate for more war
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Bolton: Either Iran Gets Nukes Or ‘Israel Or Sombody Else Uses Military Force To Stop It’

This post was originally published on Think Progress.


Last week, Iran’s President Mahmoud Amadinejad said Tehran would have “no problem” agreeing on a deal to send its enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment. But today, Iran told the IAEA that it would back out of the deal and begin enriching its uranium stockpile in Iran.

On Fox News today, John Bolton declared that “Iran simply has no intention of being talked out of its nuclear weapons program” and that “very severe sanctions” will not work. Later, when host Gregg Jarrett asked if military action is “the only answer,” Bolton agreed:

JARRETT: Is military force probably in the end the only answer?

BOLTON: There are two outcomes, one is Iran getting its nuclear weapons, the other is Israel or somebody uses military force to stop it. That’s where we are.


Bolton has been calling for military strikes on Iran to eliminate its nuclear program for sometime, despite claiming that he “always said, that the use of force against Iran’s nuclear program is deeply unattractive.” Last year, he said that “targeted force” is the “only option.”

But Bolton conveniently never discusses the sobering consequences of military action on Iran. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said war with Iran would be “disastrous” and “the last thing we need.” “There is no military option that does anything more than buy time,” Gates said last year. Retired Gen. Anthony Zinni answered war hawks like Bolton calling for military action against Iran:

After you’ve dropped those bombs on those hardened facilities, what happens next? … ventually, if you follow this all the way down, eventually I’m putting boots on the ground somewhere. And like I tell my friends, if you like Iraq and Afghanistan, you’ll love Iran.


A top defense official said an attack probably would “incentivize the Iranians to go all the way to weaponize” their nuclear material and have “a number of destabilizing” consequences for the region. Bolton actually thinks attacking Iran “would lead to greater stability in the region” but that if anything goes wrong, a simple “campaign of public diplomacy” will sort everything out.


http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/02/09/bolton-either-iran-gets-nukes-or-israel-or-sombody-else-uses-military-force-to-stop-it/


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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 06:54 AM
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1. They want want a World War in their life time
They feel deprived because they didn't get to participate in WWII.

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unhappycamper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 07:13 AM
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6. And they were too chickenshit to serve in Viet Nam. n/t
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flying rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 06:56 AM
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2. John Bolton = Tool.
Edited on Tue Feb-09-10 06:57 AM by flying rabbit
"I'm putting boots on the ground somewhere". Pack up your ruck, John, and quit playing Stratego with other peoples lives.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 06:58 AM
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3. Why doesn't Bolton strap himself to a bomb and self-detonate on target then?
Put his ass where ever running mouth is....


K&R

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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 07:04 AM
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4. Because he'd rather send your kid to do that.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 07:08 AM
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5. True. He is a coward.
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 07:21 AM
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7. Someone find this fucker's bucket so he'll go away already n/t
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 08:10 AM
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8. Obama needs to give this guy a job in Afghanistan.
Put him some place close to the war that he loves so much.
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 08:53 AM
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9. bolton must have been the middle-school atomic-wedgie champion - on the receiving end of course
I am confident he was the target of every bully and bully-wannabe throughout his adolescent years.
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