Bolton: Striking Iran ‘Is Really The Most Prudent Thing To Do’
Bolton: Striking Iran ‘Is Really The Most Prudent Thing To Do’
Yesterday morning, Fox News interviewed former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to discuss whether America is close to striking Iranian targets, as new reports indicate the Bush administration is drawing up plans for a “surgical strike.” Bolton said that while there are “obviously risks associated” with a strike on Iran, the risks of not doing something are “far higher” at this point.
Fox anchor Jaime Colby asserted, “The Brits think we overestimate the threat of Iran in this particular case. Are they right or wrong?” Bolton — who has previously claimed that the “mullahs in Iran” want a Democratic president in 2008 — responded:
I think they’re dead wrong on this. I think this is a case where the use of military force against a training camp to show the Iranians we’re not going to tolerate this is really the most prudent thing to do. Then the ball would be in Iran’s court to draw the appropriate lesson to stop harming our troops.
Fox anchor Colby reacted to Bolton’s war cries by concluding — without sarcasm — “That’s a good message to end on. Thank you.” Watch it:
Bolton has asserted that preventive war against Iraq “did work” and “achieved our strategic objective.” Moreover, he has openly stated that the U.S. should have no interest in the well-being of Iraqis.
Bolton’s unquenchable appetite for a military conflict with Iran is easy to understand, given that he cares so little about the disastrous consequences that follow from war.
Sort Comments By: Top Rated | Date
64 Responses to “Bolton: Striking Iran ‘Is Really The Most Prudent Thing To Do’”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Register
RSSLogin
Topic Cloud
ArchivesBlog RollAbout Think ProgressContact Us
Donate
Bolton: Striking Iran ‘Is Really The Most Prudent Thing To Do’
Especially if you’re a neocon warmongering chickenhawk .
May 5th, 2008 at 12:24 pmNo, striking Bolton with a huge bold of lightning would be more prudent.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:26 pmMayhaps a bold bolt? geebutz…
May 5th, 2008 at 12:27 pmSomebody please explain to me again why Dems insist on appearing on Fox? What’s to be gained by legitimizing this organization?
May 5th, 2008 at 12:27 pmBolton has asserted that preventive war against Iraq “did work” and “achieved our strategic objective.”
So your “strategic objective” all along was to create a complete clusterfu(k in Iraq ?
“Mission Accomplished” , indeed…………
May 5th, 2008 at 12:27 pmMacho Macho Man
May 5th, 2008 at 12:28 pmI want to be a Macho Man
Macho Macho Man
I want to be a Macho Man
… As long as someone else is doing the dying.
I think they’re dead wrong on this. I think this is a case where the use of military force against a training camp to show the Iranians we’re not going to tolerate this is really the most prudent thing to do. Then the ball would be in Iran’s court to draw the appropriate lesson to stop harming our troops.
And this is the same jackass that Chimpy wanted as our permanent Ambassador to the UN.
I tell ya’ ; Chimpy sure has a great eye for spotting talent……….
May 5th, 2008 at 12:30 pmWhen is this guy going to go away?
May 5th, 2008 at 12:30 pmHow long until Billary cops this line from Bolton too?
May 5th, 2008 at 12:32 pm“The Brits think we overestimate the threat of Iran in this particular case.”
As does all of our own 16 intelligence agencies. Are they dead wrong as well?
More likely it is Bolton who is wrong…
May 5th, 2008 at 12:35 pmBolton is a PNACer extraordinaire. He is from the group that has wanted to take the oil from Iraq and Iran for more than a decade. Notice who singed the letter in the link above? Yup, none other than Bolton. Then peruse the site and see how many of those warmongering, whack jobs are in our government now. It’s truly frightening.
And they leave that site out there like they are proud of themselves for it all. It’s disgusting.
As for the WSJ…someone tell me why anyone reads it any longer.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:37 pmAs does Adm. Mullen apparently since he said he doesn’t want us involved in a conflict with them (for other reasons, like our overstretched military. But you’d think if they really were such a threat and attacking was the only prudent thing to do, he wouldn’t be saying he wants to avoid conflict right?)
May 5th, 2008 at 12:39 pmBolton is just like the brat-child who thinks his mom is a b*tch because she chastises him for tracking mud into the house after she warned him not too.
This piece of shit, waste-of-space needs a permanent “time-out”.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:40 pmIn the Wall Street Journal, Fouad Ajami writes, “Before we tackle that Persian menace, the Iranian theocrats will have to be shown that there is a price for their transgressions.”
Ajami has been an advisor to United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as well as a friend and colleague of Deputy United States Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Yeah , your resume’ sure includes a pair of pure success stories that makes your opinion seem like gospel there , Pajami …
The Chimpy theocrats will have to be shown that there is a price for their transgressions when they and yourself are hauled before the World Court……….
May 5th, 2008 at 12:42 pmTaking bets on WHEN the IRAN war will start!! Anyone…?
May 5th, 2008 at 12:44 pmMeanwhile, our constant threats are having a drastic and counterproductive impact on Iran’s domestic politics, pushing reformers away and leading to parliamentary victories by the more conservative candidates:
http://www.democracynow.org/ 2008/ 5/ 5/ iran_elections_under_threat
May 5th, 2008 at 12:48 pmAh, the pre-recorded message of the ruling class. I’ll tell you what, Mr. Potato freak. No more 19-year-olds having their limbs blown off to expand the business of your buddy contractors into more CentCom territory; however, we’ll offer you a $350 flack jacket, a bottle of water and NO air-conditioned tent. You’re itching for war, so that in itself should be all the comfort you’ll need. And, your plane ticket is FREE!
I’m sure you’ll accept our offer.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:52 pm“…the risks of not doing something are “far higher” at this point.”
You mean getting stomped in the Nov. ‘08 election?
May 5th, 2008 at 12:55 pmWhat a diplomat!! Quick - somebody make this guy an ambassdador. No - not just any ambassador - Ambassador to the United Nations, for God’s sake!
May 5th, 2008 at 12:55 pmThe Congressional Democrats failure to stand up and be the 1st branch of government must bear the responsibility for not stopping this criminal regime which continues to lead our nation off a cliff. The are delusional psychopathic morons who create their own reality and then act on it. They have violated their oaths to protect and defend the constitution and redefine laws to meet their own desires.
It is now probably too late to impeach and remove this violent offender, and we can only hope that the spineless gamble the congressional leadership has made will pay off.
When Iran is hit, the Straits of Hormuz will be impassible. Oil will double again, and the dollar will continue to fall. More servicemen will die. Heckuva job chimpy.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:57 pmIf this idiot wants to strike Iran so bad, I saw good. Lets put him in a single jet bomber and send him over Iran as many times as it takes to knock out their nuke sites and military bases. I’m sure it will be a piece of cake. It’s not like he’ll get shot down or cause gas prices to go over 8 dollars a barrel. I mean what can go wrong, it’s not like the Iranians are going to defend themselves, or start even more terrorism around the world. If the oil markets are in a panic right now, just imagine what they will do when they realize that Iran will cut off most if not all of the oil coming from Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. Apparently this fool forgot that the Saudi Oil fields would be a target for Iranian planes, and terrorists to attack in case we attacked them first.
I guess our economy can survive 8 dollar a gallon gas just to please his need to attack someone. When he was younger enough to join the military during Viet Nam, he chose to sit it out. Now he want’s to be Rambo with other people’s children blood, limbs, and lives. This is one of the bravest and smartest men on the planet for his Republican supporters, but to me he’s a dumbass moron who wants to be tough. Go place General somewhere else you stupid ass, all of our slots are currently filled.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:58 pmAllawi says there is no evidence that Iran is funding anyone in Iraq. This was from NPR this morning.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:59 pmJust finished reading how Democrats’ appearances on Fox are to reach voters, and that Dean thinks it’s fine.
This puts the lie to their fantasy. The fact that ‘commentators’ are warhawks give you any idea what their true values are?
What a mistake giving them credibility. Cheney/Rove must be so damned pleased.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:01 pmGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
——————————————————————————–
Allawi says there is no evidence that Iran is funding anyone in Iraq. This was from NPR this morning.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Wally Walrus Bolton knows so much more ……….And according to him , more than everyone else on the planet.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:02 pmI hear all the men in the White House love the way that moustach feels when going down…
May 5th, 2008 at 1:02 pmIf the strategic objective of the Iraq war was to destabalize Iraq, remove the primary counterweight to Iranian influence and kill thousands of people then “Mission Accomplished.” Putting aside the insanity of that premise, it is amazing that anyone is willing to put this malevolent troll on camera. You would think even Faux would know he looks and sounds like a dunce at this point.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:06 pmJesus H. Christ!!
Tell ya what - let’s just lock this homicidal assclown in a rubber room so he can’t hurt anybody!!
May 5th, 2008 at 1:09 pmI think this man is even more dangerous than Bush.
‘Bolton was in South Korea on an AEI assignment when he received a call from long-time mentor James Baker, who was leading the charge on the Florida recount in 2000. Baker told him to get on the next plane, which he did. After working as a lawyer with the Republican team in Florida, he grabbed reporters’ attention when he burst into a Tallahassee library announcing ”I’m with the Bush-Cheney team, and I’m here to stop the count.”‘
http://www.bluehampshire.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3851
And thus the nightmare began..
May 5th, 2008 at 1:12 pmpaleolib Says:
Putting aside the insanity of that premise, it is amazing that anyone is willing to put this malevolent troll on camera. You would think even Faux would know he looks and sounds like a dunce at this point.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
_____
Since when has “looking like a dunce” stopped Fox from putting someone on the air?
I’m surprised they haven’t given him his own show.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:20 pmLet’s see, the Bush gangsters have two illegal criminal neoconical occupations going now: Afghanistan and Iraq… And now they want to make it three-in-a-row: Afghanistan-Iran-Iraq.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:23 pmHeck of a plan, neoconicals… That won’t be three cherries in row, morons…
Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Says:
Let’s see, the Bush gangsters have two illegal criminal neoconical occupations going now: Afghanistan and Iraq… And now they want to make it three-in-a-row: Afghanistan-Iran-Iraq.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
_____
Yah, the strategy is ludicrous. If anything, we should be putting our X’s on Turkmenistan or Azerbaijan to block.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:27 pmBut, but, but I thought it was Al-Qaida killing our troops. Now it’s the Persians too? I suppose that when the Turks start killing our troops it will be considered an accident.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:35 pmThe oil companies are ridding the middle class of their money quickly enough so the elites are going to drive oil up to $10 to make sure we’re all part of the permanent underclass. Obviously Hillary is on the bomb Iran side which must be one reason the Rethugs are working to get her nominated. Not until everybody but that top 1% ruling class is destitute will these guys be happy.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:39 pmthe bush admin, when it all comes down to it, are cowards.
every stinkin one of them.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:40 pmOh, yeah, he is just so more informed on Iran than any of those pesky Intelligence Wacko Guys, he has the special inside information on all the Bush/Cheney Propaganda than they do….oh, that’s right, Propaganda…when has Bush/Cheney ever told the truth about anything.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:42 pm“But, but, but I thought it was Al-Qaida killing our troops.”
It was. Until Cheney got “summoned” to Saudi Arabia.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:43 pmfrom Alex Jones:
Either Americans do not understand what it is they are preparing to do, or they think themselves immune to the consequences. The planet is not large. What goes around, comes around. Smoke from the Gulf War oil fires went around the world and was detected in South America. Radioactive fallout from bombing a nuclear reactor will also go far, especially considering that it has millions of years to make the trip.
The Persian Gulf nations of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran have more than half the world’s known oil reserves. The 1981 study by Fetter and Tsipis in Scientific American on “Catastrophic Releases of Radioactivity” estimated that bombing a nuclear reactor would cause 8600 square miles around the reactor to be uninhabitable, depending on which way the wind blows. Bombing the Bushehr reactor will mean half of the world’s oil is instantly inaccessible. Bombing Iran means that Americans will not be driving cars any where, any more, for a long, long time. The American Way of Life will be finished. An economic collapse unimagined by Americans will follow. Mechanized farming and food transport will be finished. Famine is a possibility. Food riots are a certainty, in the land of plenty, with the fuel gauge on empty
May 5th, 2008 at 1:47 pmSo obviously an act of war against Iran would justify Iran going to the UN and demanding that the UN assist Iran with it defense against an attack rogue state.
Or perhaps an act of war against Iran would justify their air force targeting military installations on the mainland US.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:49 pmKay Says:
The Persian Gulf nations of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran have more than half the world’s known oil reserves. The 1981 study by Fetter and Tsipis in Scientific American on “Catastrophic Releases of Radioactivity” estimated that bombing a nuclear reactor would cause 8600 square miles around the reactor to be uninhabitable, depending on which way the wind blows.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
The prevailing winds generally blow east-northeast, from the Arabian peninsula across Iran into Central Asia, Pakistan and India. I don’t think there’d be much effect on Saudi oil fields, but there would be a definite effect on the oil fields where Russia and China get much of their oil diet.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:51 pmIs Hillary going to choose Bolton for her running mate?
May 5th, 2008 at 2:02 pmThey seem like a “obliterating” match made in heaven.
Maybe it’s time to really put them on the spot with a question like this in the next lame “presser”:
‘In a “surgical” strike in Iran, should Bush decide to go that route, how far away from Iran would anyone be exposed to fallout?”
Our so-called journalists really need to step up here!!
May 5th, 2008 at 2:05 pmBolton really needs a frontal lobotomy.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:14 pmKay Says
May 5th, 2008 at 2:02pm
Is Hillary going to choose Bolton for her running mate?
They seem like a “obliterating” match made in heaven.
__________________________________________________________
This might be her siren call to Bolton:
http://news.aol.com/ elections/ story/ _a/ iran-complains-to-un-about-clinton/ n20080505004709990002?cid=435
May 5th, 2008 at 2:15 pm#42 : I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:18 pmActually, JAILING all of these WAR CRIMINAL TRAITORS, from Bush and Cheney to Libby and Bolton, is the MOST PRUDENT THING TO DO.
For the good of the USA.
And take ‘em “swimming”, a la Rush and Ashcroft…
May 5th, 2008 at 2:19 pmThe only people worse than the insane that run this country and the people that voted for them are the Dems who permit it and the fools who say “I’m going to vote for McInsane if Hillary/Obama doesn’t get the nomination.” this country has SO deserved all of this.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:23 pmOne of the drawbacks of not pursuing impeachment is that people like Bolton maintain a aura of sham-respectability. If only such people were known to be “ex-cons” as well as “neo-cons”; their damage to the world would be lessened.
Fox would still give them a platform (of course), but their message would be more tainted.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:25 pmBolton has asserted that preventive war against Iraq “did work” and “achieved our strategic objective.” Moreover, he has openly stated that the U.S. should have no interest in the well-being of Iraqis.
This man is living proof of the axiom “It’s better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you’re stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”
http://progressiveworldreview.com
May 5th, 2008 at 2:34 pmGas at $8.00 a gallon? Try $20.00 a gallon. Why?
- War with Iran limits oil coming out of the middle east
- Who else do we get it from?
If we see $8.00 a gallon we’ll be damn lucky! But I think that’s the point.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:52 pm#2
May 5th, 2008 at 3:16 pmRUCeruious said it all!!!!!!!!!
Let’s strap Bolton to the first bomb like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:18 pmYahooo!
Cal ~! I’ll second that, and provide the 10 gallon cowboy hat..
May 5th, 2008 at 3:33 pmThese neo-con’s are clueless. These guys are experts on their own agenda and that’s about it. Reality check with a real expert always brings us back to sanity. Bolton is a nutcase.
http://news.yahoo.com/ s/ nm/ 20080505/ ts_nm/ usa_iran_mullen_dc
May 5th, 2008 at 4:46 pmPeople like Bolton need to be recognized for what they are - Insane. And they should be treated as such. Bolton should be locked up for psychiatric evaluation.
Don’t try to understand them, and don’t try to make them understand you, because they are a breed apart, and they make no sense.
- Chingachgook, The Last of the Mohicans
May 5th, 2008 at 5:07 pmOr perhaps an act of war against Iran would justify their air force targeting military installations on the mainland US.
More likely, Russia. And they don’t need airplanes to do so.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:21 pmWho let psycho Captain Crunch Bolton out of the looney bin?
May 5th, 2008 at 5:34 pmYou want to know more about crackpot Zionists like John Bolton? Here’s a good place to start:
http://www.jewwatch.com/
Shalom.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:42 pm“Bonkers” Bolton: Striking Iran Is Really The Most Prudent Thing To Do
Wrong again!
Trust me, putting “Bonkers” Bolton in a padded cell is THE Most Prudent Thing To Do.
May 5th, 2008 at 6:15 pmI hate to nag, but could you display a prominent warning of impending Fox News video? *shivers Watching that nut job just wasted 5 minutes of my time.
May 5th, 2008 at 7:37 pmBolton is the American equivalent of Osama Bin Laden.
May 5th, 2008 at 10:47 pmI’m totally in favor of the US Air Force bombing Iran as long as John Bolton is strapped to the first bomb, followed by William Kristol and Dick Cheney on the second and third. It would give “Kristol Meth” and “Five Deferments” Cheney one last opportunity to do themselves what they’re so eager for others to do: die for their country. Let’s also load up an entire 747 with all the fine patriots at FoxNews and do a kamikaze run at a dam in the Iranian countryside. These fine men and women are so eager for a war with Iran that surely they would welcome the opportunity to give their lives as well. Heroic sacrifices like this, repeated many times by Bush-loving Republicans and their supporters in the mainstream media, would leave the United States a better country.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:28 amIt’s pretty clear where Bolton’s loyalty lies…Israel. Being a dual loyalist leaves him no other choice. Might explain why he never got confirmed as US representative to the UN
May 6th, 2008 at 12:59 pmShe says, “….if one US soldier is dead because of an IED supplied by Iran, what are waiting for?”
May 6th, 2008 at 1:26 pmI remember a story about tons of explosives under US control in Iraq disappearing… here is the story:
http://www.cnn.com/ 2004/ WORLD/ meast/ 10/ 25/ iraq.explosives/
how do 380 tons of anything dissappear? trucks? nobody noticed? sure! I think WE supplied IEDs to keep the war going.
Food for thought.
To JPKELLY-want to know what happened to the explosives? Redistributed by Mossad/CIA to keep the conflict going.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:00 pm