I am no fan of Iranian President Ahmadinejad, nor of Iran, nor of radical Islam. It would bother me one bit if I woke up one morning, and they were all gone off the face of the planet. But that isn't my decision to make- nor is it the decision of the neocons in Washington, nor their lackeys in Great Britian. John Bolton, Bush's attack dog on Iran, told Tory delegates in Britain that there's no alternative to a military strike against Iran.
Ahmadinejad's appearance at Columbia University was just what the doctor ordered for the Neocons. They've been able to portray him as a complete megalomaniacal dictator, bent on the destruction of the West and a radical islamic conquest of the world.
Bush is beating the war drums louder and louder against Iran, and an attack will almost certainly be launched before he leaves office. The next President will have to deal not only with the quagmire in Iraq, but the mess Bush and his Neocon cadre will leave in Iran- and who knows where else. But then, that's exactly what I think Bush wants. The American people will want to get out of the messes he puts us in, and in order to do so, will fall in line with his daddy's New World Order, austensibly under Bush's hoped-for successor- Hillary Clinton.
We better put an end to the Bush/Clinton dynasty before it puts an end to us.
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From: The Jerusalem Post
Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told Tory delegates in Britain Sunday that efforts by the UK and the EU to negotiate with Iran had failed and that he saw no alternative to a pre-emptive strike on suspected nuclear facilities in the country.
Bolton said that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was "pushing out" and "is not receiving adequate push-back" from the West.
"I don't think the use of military force is an attractive option, but I would tell you I don't know what the alternative is.
"Because life is about choices, I think we have to consider the use of military force. I think we have to look at a limited strike against their nuclear facilities."
He added that any strike should be followed by an attempt to remove the "source of the problem", Ahmadinejad.
"If we were to strike Iran it should be accompanied by an effort at regime change ... The US once had the capability to engineer the clandestine overthrow of governments. I wish we could get it back," he said.
Bolton said that the fact that only partial intelligence about Iran's nuclear activity existed should not be used as an excuse not to act.
"Intelligence can be wrong in more than one direction... Responding after they (nuclear devices) are used is unacceptable."
Bolton also said the UN was "fundamentally irrelevant".
The former envoy criticized Britain's "softly softly" approach to Iran's imprisonment of 15 British sailors in April.
They were released after Ahmadinejad announced he was making a "gift" to the British people. "They [Iran] got no response from the UK or the US. If you were the Iranian leader, what conclusion do you draw?"
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