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| 2006-03-06 |
| Interview of John Bolton at Atlas Schrug. EFL JB: ... Like Iran, I've been working on this for three and a half years Atlas: And you'll be working on it for three and half more JOB: I hope not, I hope not because now that it's in the Security Council, now is the time to say this is their chance that either they give up their pursuit of nuclear weapons or we go to what the President said, we do something else. Atlas: We do something else? That's a little vague, don't you think? Deliberately vague? JB: Yeah, sure absolutely. The President said I never take options off the table. And you've got to be that way. Look this has happened to me enough times before .... if I said, well -- I'll give you an example......after the invasion of Iraq, after Saddam was overthrown I said something in a BBC interview like I hope the governments of Syria and Iran take notice of what's just happened and I got into enormous trouble for that because it sounded like I was threatening the invasion of Iran and Syria. Atlas: I think we've moved too slowly and they've gotten too far. It is frightening to me because Israel is such a small country, it would just take one, to get one off JB: yeah Atlas: One JB: Well, the president has used this phrase enough times, I don't know if he ever used it in a speech, but he talks about his concern about a Nuclear Holocaust -- that's his phrase. Atlas: He's right JB: He's got Iran specifically in mind. That's why I am confident over time at the State Department, the President knows what he needs to do. Atlas: You're clear on that. JB: Yeah, he's got that, he's got North Korea which he calls a prison camp. He said to Kofi Anna last September - it's a disgrace that during our administrations this regime still keeps its entire population in a prison camp -- which Kofi didn't know what to say. There are things he's gott in his mind that are very clearly fixed. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #4 I liked JB's WonderWoman/SuperWoman pic at the top sidebar. To bad it appears to be a photoshop. (heads at the wrong angle on the body) |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-03-06 23:50 |
| #3 Oops, I did dismiss terminal cynicism, heh. Good catch, TT... |
| Posted by: .com 2006-03-06 18:40 |
| #2 "Anyone (other than the willfully disingenuous) was in doubt?" Actually, yeah, I think there are: people who learned, during Bill Clinton's two terms in office, to discount as total bullshit damn near every word uttered by a President who almost never meant what he said or said what he meant. For some, it's hard to let go of the cynicism born of Bill Clinton's dishonesty. Bush has said that Iran will not acquire nuclear weapons. I'm inclined to take him at his word. |
| Posted by: Thoth Theash6328 2006-03-06 18:29 |
| #1 Anyone (other than the willfully disingenuous) was in doubt? Bush has said it amazingly plainly several times. Those who still don't get it don't get much of anything. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-03-06 17:48 |