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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."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bolton; geopolitics; horowitz; iran; proliferation; sanctions; wot
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1 posted on 06/26/2007 5:43:34 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary
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To: Anti-Hillary

See my tagline....


2 posted on 06/26/2007 5:44:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
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To: Anti-Hillary

Bush vision tainted?
Color me shocked!


3 posted on 06/26/2007 5:44:34 PM PDT by Build_The_Fence (Mr. Bush....tear up that Bill)
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To: Alouette; SJackson

ping


4 posted on 06/26/2007 5:47:42 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
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To: Anti-Hillary

A comma for the headline, oh for a comma! :-)


5 posted on 06/26/2007 5:47:57 PM PDT by JoeSixPack1 (Think not of today.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Regarding your tagline, You are Wise my friend......


6 posted on 06/26/2007 5:49:10 PM PDT by cmsgop ( "cmsgop" a Mark Goodson / Bill Todman Production)
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To: Anti-Hillary
As a consequence, Bolton said he was "very worried" about the well-being of Israel.

A nuclear-armed, jihadist-infested Iran isn't good for America either, to put it mildly. No need for Bush to be gun shy -- this won't be an occupation/nation-building/social-engineering effort. (In fact, that would be most undesirable for too many reasons to list). Just sink their navy, take out their nuke sites, and be done with it.

7 posted on 06/26/2007 5:49:19 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo (There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy)
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To: Anti-Hillary
Events are moving almost inexorably towards war with Iran unless they pull back from the abyss, and they show no signs of coming to their senses. In fact, recent weeks have made it all too clear that Iran envisions itself as a regional super power.
8 posted on 06/26/2007 5:49:21 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
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To: Anti-Hillary
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.
Maybe Bush converted to Islam and didn't tell anyone. Maybe Aliens ate his brain and left his body to shamble about the White House to scare children and support dangerous legislation. What happened to the damned president!? This like the Manchurian Candidate only not the wretched remake but the original thriller.
9 posted on 06/26/2007 5:49:27 PM PDT by Asclepius (the admin moderator ordered me to "lose" my tagline.)
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To: Anti-Hillary

This is just more of what I have been getting for the last few weeks in email. This Administration is seriously out of whack with the real world right now and it is starting to get freaky.

We have a long time to go before the election and people better wake up that this is not some lark for President but we are facing massive problems that are being left by this Administration and their kumbaya. If Bush, Cheney, and Rove and their puppets support a candidate, you all had better ask why? Not donors because some donors are donating to more than one candidate but political operatives associated with Bush/Cheney/Rove because most people don’t want a Bush around them again.


10 posted on 06/26/2007 5:49:43 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( Inhofe for Senate 08 -- Broken Glass Republican -- vote out the RATs in 2008)
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To: jveritas; FARS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; knighthawk; Marine_Uncle; SandRat; Steel Wolf; CAP; ...

Bolton on Iran ping.


11 posted on 06/26/2007 5:49:59 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I like your tagline. ;)


12 posted on 06/26/2007 5:50:19 PM PDT by MizSterious (Recovering Bushbot)
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To: Build_The_Fence

Bush is “too good” a man. I don’t think FDR or Truman spent every Sunday receiving a steady stream of kin for brunch in the White House. The emotional toll is probably clouding his judgment, and I think even his immigration views are being shaped by a fragile heart with no logic whatsoever.


13 posted on 06/26/2007 5:52:28 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: PhiKapMom

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.


14 posted on 06/26/2007 5:53:03 PM PDT by MizSterious (Recovering Bushbot)
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To: Anti-Hillary
Bolton:

""We have fiddled away four years, in which Europe tried to persuade Iran to give up voluntarily," he complained. "Iran in those four years mastered uranium conversion from solid to gas and now enrichment to weapons grade... We lost four years to feckless European diplomacy and our options are very limited.""

15 posted on 06/26/2007 5:53:36 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
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To: elhombrelibre

If Iran attacks DC, the government will relocate to the secret Southern White House inside Mount Popocatépetl. From there, the United States of Mexico will launch a furious response with the “piñata II” cruise missile, which will rain UN warnings down upon a terrified Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


16 posted on 06/26/2007 5:53:40 PM PDT by xDGx
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To: SteveMcKing

Clearly, a lot pf people in DC don’t give a damn what we the people think.


17 posted on 06/26/2007 5:54:33 PM PDT by Build_The_Fence (Mr. Bush....tear up that Bill)
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To: SteveMcKing

So others are seeing this self-defeatist attiude in the president as well.

Not exactly a reassusing quality for a CIC.


18 posted on 06/26/2007 5:54:53 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: Anti-Hillary

Bolton gets it. Bush and the Europeans don’t !!!


19 posted on 06/26/2007 5:55:03 PM PDT by Obie Wan (If)
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To: Build_The_Fence

If you’re shocked.. i’m awed...

at the stupidity of our government.


20 posted on 06/26/2007 5:57:46 PM PDT by pacelvi
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