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Bolton: US Defeated By Iran
Fars News Agency ^ | January 31, 2009

Posted on 02/01/2009 10:27:35 AM PST by Strategy

TEHRAN (FNA) - Former US envoy to the UN John Bolton said Washington has suffered a humiliating defeat in its drive against Iran's nuclear activities.

In a Friday interview with BBC Persian, Bolton said Washington's efforts to curb Tehran's nuclear achievements have come to naught as Tehran has successfully managed to defend its national interests.

In my view, we lost the fight. Tehran has emerged the ultimate winner in maintaining its nuclear program, he added.

Bolton claimed that if Washington had settled on a military option against Iran's nuclear infrastructure beforehand, "the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons would not have existed in the world today."

The former US diplomat said that he seriously advises US President Barack Obama to opt for a military attack on Iran's uranium enrichment, should three months of direct negotiation with Iran prove to be a failure.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.farsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bho044; bho2009; bho44; bhoiran; bhomiddleeast; bhosurrender; bolton; iran; iraniannukes; irannukes; iraq; israel; johnbolton; obama; proliferation; propaganda; weakling; wot
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1 posted on 02/01/2009 10:27:35 AM PST by Strategy
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To: Strategy
Bolton is the man... a rarity in the District of Corruption these days.

LLS

2 posted on 02/01/2009 10:29:58 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Strategy

Nero prefers the fiddle.


3 posted on 02/01/2009 10:30:06 AM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Strategy

Fear not. We have the Obamaloon, and he will truly save us.....NOT!

It’s pathetic that the mega-shrimp from Iran has already made a fool of the loon. Pathetic, but not unexpected.


4 posted on 02/01/2009 10:31:02 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Strategy

Bolton keeps being right.


5 posted on 02/01/2009 10:31:04 AM PST by dr_who
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To: LibLieSlayer
District of Corruption

District of Corruption! I love it! Hadn't heard that one before but it's right on the mark.

6 posted on 02/01/2009 10:32:49 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I wish it was 20 January 2013. I've had enough of this crap already.)
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To: Strategy
What's Farsi for “up yours”? That's what I hear coming out of Tehran these days.
7 posted on 02/01/2009 10:33:18 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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To: Strategy

Yep, seven years of opportunity to put Iran back to the stone age pissed away.


8 posted on 02/01/2009 10:33:45 AM PST by TADSLOS (McCain always has a job as Obama's Butt Boy when he loses his seat in 2010)
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To: LibLieSlayer

“District of Corruption”

VERY apt....should be used in the call for REFORM (coming elections)!!!


9 posted on 02/01/2009 10:37:03 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: LibLieSlayer

Ditto to that


10 posted on 02/01/2009 10:37:24 AM PST by Dustbunny (Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. The Gipper)
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To: Strategy

Put the blame where it belongs:

http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20071203_release.pdf


11 posted on 02/01/2009 10:37:47 AM PST by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: LibLieSlayer
Bolton is the man... a rarity in the District of Corruption these days.

Bolton/Palin 2012

12 posted on 02/01/2009 10:38:01 AM PST by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: Strategy
I know what he is saying but I'll take issue with the way he said it.

How can you be defeated in something you never fought?

We weren't defeated, we let them win, Iran too.

13 posted on 02/01/2009 10:38:09 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Obama says we should listen to the muzzies, but not to Rush)
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To: Strategy

Obama and the democrats are to blame for this.

The Rats have successfully destroyed the Bush initiatives
to do preemptive strikes.

Carter II in spades.


14 posted on 02/01/2009 10:38:10 AM PST by ChiMark
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To: LibLieSlayer

Let’s hope Israel will get the job done. Zerobama will still be at the table begging Imanutjob’s forgiveness for our former administration when the bomb goes off.....

Militant


15 posted on 02/01/2009 10:42:44 AM PST by militant2 ( "God Bless these Divided States of America!")
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To: Strategy

Bolton is correct as usual. President Bush didn’t have the nerve to take care of Iran. As predicted and obvious, now the world is in dire straights. Israel will once again be the leader, and take care of the necessary business of dealing realistically with Iran. The dreamers, the talkers, will just get a lot of innocents killed. Israel will do what needs to be done. As B.Netanyahu said “Israel reserves the right to survive.”


16 posted on 02/01/2009 10:44:48 AM PST by TheConservativeParty (That's Mrs.Chief Master Sgt. to you sonny.)
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To: Strategy

What will the 0 do when (not if) an Iranian nuke goes off in Tel Aviv or Washington?
Assuming he survives, and setting aside the momentous question of direct military retaliation, he can probably dodge a lot of the blame by pointing out that most of the development occurred on Bush’s watch and the program was far advanced when the Obama administration took over.

If he is really smart, he will look the other way while Israeli survivors and/or American patriots settle accounts with the media beasts, business whores, and peace hypocrites who helped facilitate and shield Iran’s nuke program.


17 posted on 02/01/2009 10:57:17 AM PST by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: Strategy

And for those late to the show, let’s not forget that it was our former President GWB who threw Bolton under the bus and turned State over to Condi the Piano Player and the rest of those Arab and Persian appeasing sumb!tches.


18 posted on 02/01/2009 10:59:26 AM PST by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American History. Barack 0bama is his second term.)
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To: Da Coyote

I wonder when the Left is going to agree with Amadinajackass like they did when he was trying to humiliate President Bush.


19 posted on 02/01/2009 11:05:45 AM PST by divine_moment_of_facts
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To: Strategy
"Tehran has successfully managed to defend its national interests. "

This bothers Bolton? That seems par for the course among nations.

20 posted on 02/01/2009 11:17:11 AM PST by ex-snook ("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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