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Bolton: Bush 'doesn't see sanctions can't stop Iran now'
The Jerusalem Post ^ | 6-27-07 | David Horowitz

Posted on 06/26/2007 5:43:33 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary

Sanctions and diplomacy have failed and it may be too late for internal opposition to oust the Islamist regime, leaving only military intervention to stop Iran's drive to nuclear weapons, the US's former ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

Worse still, according to Ambassador Bolton, the Bush administration does not recognize the urgency of the hour and that the options are now limited to only the possibility of regime change from within or a last-resort military intervention, and it is still clinging to the dangerous and misguided belief that sanctions can be effective.

As a consequence, Bolton said he was "very worried" about the well-being of Israel. If he were in Israel's predicament, he said, "I'd be pushing the US very hard. I am pushing the US [administration] very hard, from the outside, in Washington."

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bolton; geopolitics; horowitz; iran; proliferation; sanctions; wot
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

We are on the verge of terrible times that could make the last few years seem like paradise. We have all the means to stop disaster, but a gun is only as a effective as the man at the trigger. And if his will has been weakened by the enemy’s propaganda, then we are in grave danger. Didn’t Bush read Churchill’s Gathering Storm? How he could put all his confidence in an overmatched C. Rice is beyond foolish, when a capable fellow like Bolton is available with sage advice. I just pray when the blow falls that the American people will be able to shake off this evil spell and remember right from wrong, courage from cowardice, unlike our State Department.


81 posted on 06/26/2007 8:02:25 PM PDT by brigadoon
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To: Cicero
“but should probably be out of most of Iran in a month or so.”

The best plans don’t survive the first contact in battle. Multiply that estimate by a factor of 12 to 15 would be more accurate under the best circumstances. Name on “police action” that has lasted less than 2 years.

“Partition? Maybe so. But it could be dangerous, because that would mean that the Sunni Arabs controlled even more oil than they already do. “

Would that be so bad? Looking at it in terms of stability. The Sunni’s have shown they value the money. The Shiia don’t even value human life and are committed more to flawed ideals than making money.

82 posted on 06/26/2007 8:05:14 PM PDT by JSteff
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To: ichabod1
“SOmetimes I think nukular weapons themselves and the megacide to come are just the planet’s way of protecting itself from us.”

Think about what you wrote. Al Gore couldn't have said it any better.

83 posted on 06/26/2007 8:09:43 PM PDT by JSteff
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To: elhombrelibre
He did. But let us be carefull as to how important Iraq was, verse Iran in the actual sales of oil. To different animals, different game plans. I do hope the Saudis and their neighboring states, Canada, Mexico, Indonesia, and Malasia are planning to boost their oil exports, should we have to take out Iran.
Then again, perhaps the new generation very deep penetrators are really to go. Supposed we virtually destroyed everything related to their military/communications networks, their airforce and navy, and all the nuclear and suspect nuclear facility sites and all related industries that contribute to their nuclear program, both above and below ground level.
Would they continue to sell oil/gas to the world?
84 posted on 06/26/2007 8:14:18 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle
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To: JSteff

I don’t think Iran is a similar case to Iraq. A lot of people think the best bet is to get the Revolutionary Guard off their backs and let the Iranians work it out. As long as we are still in Iraq and Afghanistan, the country is fairly well contained. A lot of Iranians, especially the students, would love to stage a revolution, but they can’t do it while the guard has overwhelming power.

It would have been even better if we had dealt with Syria several years ago, but that still seems the best route. We could stay there forever if we tried to set up our own regime.


85 posted on 06/26/2007 8:15:53 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: DevSix
I’m heartened by your optimism.
86 posted on 06/26/2007 8:34:21 PM PDT by mcshot ("Some are inert and some are ert" military training truism from Pvt Benjamin)
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To: Mariner
Bud - I don't care how long you say you've voted GOP or if you voted for GWB or not - That is immaterial to the fact that you most certainly were using DEM/DU talking points / attacks when trying to suggest GWB lives in a insular world where his "advisers" keep him sheltered from reality (because we all know he is too dumb to think or see things on his own).

That is garbage. I would bet dollars to doughnuts the man has an intellect and IQ that would put most to shame (likely including you).

You can take your "steer clear of me" keyboard macho BS and stick it bud, if you don't like that you used such intellectually dishonest attacks and were called on them.

87 posted on 06/26/2007 8:36:01 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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To: EternalVigilance

I certainly hope if we do get a Republican in the WH in 2008, they will see fit to appoint Bolton to a very high position in the cabinet.


88 posted on 06/26/2007 8:37:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: MizSterious
"Lately, so much of what he says and does (not just immigration) makes me wonder just who the heck we elected. I don’t think this was what I signed on for when I voted last time."

I voted for him twice and I'm feeling the same way. What the hell happened to him?

89 posted on 06/26/2007 8:47:30 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border then, Introduce an Illegal Immigrant Deportation Bill)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

John Bolton is a very smart and respectable man. He is somebody people should respectfully listen too, even if they dont like what he has to say.”
___________________________
Indeed he is........I have always respected his opinion....and what he is discerning now troubles me. I fear he’s “right on”.


90 posted on 06/26/2007 9:08:59 PM PDT by cowdog77 (" Are there any brave men left in Washington, or are they all cowards?")
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To: Anti-Hillary

So George W. Bush is an incompetent fool. What else is new? The “Bush Doctrine” lies in ruins over Iran (and Pakistan for that matter). What a disaster of a Presidency.


91 posted on 06/26/2007 9:29:39 PM PDT by montag813
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To: oldbill

Bush has other priorities right now, specifically, taking care of the cheap labor needs of his corporate buddies. A nuclear Iran sworn to kill Americans around the world is trivial compared to our need at home to have clean toilets and well-manicured lawns.
***Good enough place to bump this thread.


92 posted on 06/26/2007 9:49:03 PM PDT by Kevmo (We need to get away from the Kennedy Wing of the Republican Party ~Duncan Hunter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008

I think that putting Bolton inside the White House broom closet would be a tremendous waste of his talent. Make him Secretary of State. We are about 50 years overdue for a Sec/State that will work to advance this country's interests, speak plainly in doing so (no matter who it offends - or perhaps because it will offend the tyrants and nuts that oppose us), and ignore the moronic, myopic bureaucraps in the DoS who think that the height of success is getting heads of state to sign agreements.

On the topic of Fred's administration, I would like to see Duncan Hunter as Secretary of Defense and Tancredo in charge of INS. He should also put someone in charge of the BATFE who is a Class 3 dealer who's had to deal with the crap which that out-of-control agency has spewed out since 1968. Just a few thoughts.

93 posted on 06/26/2007 9:49:35 PM PDT by Ancesthntr
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To: elhombrelibre

when you let evil be it just keeps on growing, demanding more power.


94 posted on 06/26/2007 9:53:17 PM PDT by fabian
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To: rightwingcrazy

“Just to remind you: consider President Kerry.”

Yeah - if he were president we would be negotiating with Iran and North Korea and giving amnesty to illegals and spending us into the poorhouse.

Oh, wait! Nevermind!


95 posted on 06/26/2007 10:05:56 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: PhiKapMom

“If Bush, Cheney, and Rove and their puppets support a candidate, you all had better ask why?”

I have also been saying this forever.

Watch out.


96 posted on 06/27/2007 5:28:54 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Anti-Hillary

bttt


97 posted on 06/27/2007 5:31:29 AM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: onedoug
Now we have a nuclear North Korea and a nuclear Iran - coming next will be a nuclear Burma.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

98 posted on 06/27/2007 5:41:01 AM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: DevSix; Mariner
Bud - I don't care how long you say you've voted GOP or if you voted for GWB or not - That is immaterial to the fact that you most certainly were using DEM/DU talking points / attacks when trying to suggest GWB lives in a insular world where his "advisers" keep him sheltered from reality (because we all know he is too dumb to think or see things on his own). That is garbage. I would bet dollars to doughnuts the man has an intellect and IQ that would put most to shame (likely including you). You can take your "steer clear of me" keyboard macho BS and stick it bud, if you don't like that you used such intellectually dishonest attacks and were called on them.

Get off your knee's, it's unbecoming. Blackbird.

99 posted on 06/27/2007 7:46:29 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (We stirred the melting pot (America), and incompetence floated to the top!)
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To: Anti-Hillary

Bump for later


100 posted on 06/28/2007 6:58:08 AM PDT by schu
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