John Bolton's North Korea plan: Bomb Iran!

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John Bolton's North Korea plan: Bomb Iran!
Alex Pareene


Stapler-hurling rage-walrus John Bolton has a great idea for dealing with North Korea: bomb Iran.

The former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. already advocated bombing Iran on the Wall Street Journal opinion page once this month (and last month, and the month before that), but North Korea's apparent torpedo attack on a South Korean warship earlier this year gives Bolton an entirely new reason to suggest an immediate preemptive strike against Iran:

"Like those of its predecessor, the efforts of the Obama administration to stop Iran's nuclear program have failed. North Korea's nuclear-weapons capability undergirds its belief that it can commit acts of aggression with impunity and therefore shows unambiguously why we must stop Iran. It also shows that the Security Council is gridlocked and impotent. The risks are growing as our president cheers on a world in which unilateral American power is diminished."

That is from his conclusion. Don't worry, you didn't miss any supporting evidence that would make that bolded sentence seem in any way logical.

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John Bolton, among other neocon psychos, has long been obsessed with the idea that the single biggest mistake the Bush administration ever made was taking North Korea off the "state sponsors of terrorism" list. (This insistence is what led Bush himself to memorably call Bolton "not credible.") This recent unpleasantness has caused other chest-beating patriots to renew their calls to put North Korea back on that damned list.

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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/05/25/bolton_iran_north_korea

[LakeSamish706]

1. Hell, you mean to tell me I agree with George W Bush on something? That is

disgusting.

[Deep13]

2. That's also his solution to gingivitis and excessive junk mail. nt

[14thColony]

3. He really is a one-trick pony (nt)

[Dr.Phool]

4. But, it makes perfect sense.

When a bunch of Saudi's killed 3,000 Americans, we did the smart thing and invaded Iraq, and got another 4,000 Americans killed.