John Bolton is a rabid zionist warmonger to ignore. On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 6:49:10 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > John Bolton: Israel should have attacked Iran 'yesterday'**** > > John Bolton (Photo: REUTERS) > http://unitycoalitionforisrael.org/news/?p=9574**** > > > > **** > > “Israel should have attacked Iran yesterday – every day that goes by puts > Israel in greater danger, every day Iran makes more progress,” John Bolton, > a former US ambassador to the UN, told The Jerusalem Post in an interview > on Monday.**** > > “I can understand why Israel wants us to take action, but the longer > Israel waits for something that is not going to happen, the greater the > danger Israel is in,” the senior fellow at the American Enterprise > Institute said.**** > > The US and Israel cannot expect to have perfect intelligence about Iran’s > nuclear capabilities, but if Israel attacked Iran after it gained that > capability, there could be “nuclear retaliation,” he said.**** > > During his first term, President Barack Obama implied that the US would > not resupply Israel with weapons used in attacking Iran, Bolton said. He > added that overwhelming congressional support would have forced the issue > of resupplying Israel in any case.**** > > Now he thinks the situation has changed and the issue is whether the US > would take the necessary measures to make the case that Israel was acting > legitimately in self-defense.**** > > The interview, coming a day after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said > Iran was approaching the red line he set out at the UN last September, > constituted a warning that Israel could attack Iran as a last resort to > prevent it from gaining nuclear weapons capability.**** > > Asked about the chances that the US president would order an attack before > any Israeli one, Bolton responded skeptically, “It would take a character > transplant for Obama to order a US attack.”**** > > Bolton believes that the election of Hassan Rouhani as Iranian president > will serve as a trap for the US, which will lull it into a false sense of > security and more negotiations, inevitably leading to a nuclear Iran.**** > > One can already see this by the reaction of the EU and the White House to > Rouhani’s election, he said.**** > > “The idea that Rouhani will negotiate seriously shows that this > administration is on a different planet.”**** > > There have been more than 10 years of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear > program and it has just kept building “a broad and deep infrastructure,” he > said.**** > > “Rouhani is a snare for the unwary and we fell right into it,” said Bolton > asserting that the main difference between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad > and the “moderate” president-elect is only rhetorical.**** > > “The moderates say, ‘Stop talking about it,’ and the radicals don’t stop > talking about it.” In fact, “Rouhani boasted repeatedly about how he had > suckered the EU during negotiations.”**** > > Regarding the regional fallout of an attack on Iran, Bolton said it is > important that Israel and the US are politically aligned and sharing > intelligence.**** > > And regarding US policy on Egypt and throughout the region, Bolton said > the policy is “incoherent” because Obama does not understand the nature of > radical Islam and the risk it poses. Obama believes that talking about > Islam would be perceived in the region as attacking the religion even > though Muslims are aware of the radical Islam issue.**** > > Bolton said that the only mistake the Egyptian military made so far was > allowing Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director-general of the > International Atomic Energy Agency, become vice president.**** > > And on Syria, he said that at this point the principal US interest is that > chemical and biological weapons do not fall into the hands of terrorists. > The country is going through a great tragedy, Bolton said, but he does not > see supporting the opposition as a viable option.**** > > Asked about speculation regarding a presidential run in 2016, Bolton > responded that he has not made a decision about running, but if he were to, > it would be to get national security issues back to the center of political > debate. International issues have “dropped under the radar screen,” and he > would try to reverse that trend, he said. **** > > ** ** > > > __._,_.___ > > > > > > > __,_._,___ > > >
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