Bolton: No doubt as to Iran's intentions

[tocqueville]

By NICK WADHAMS, Associated Press Writer
49 minutes ago

UNITED NATIONS - Iran has left no doubt it intends to seek nuclear weapons now that it has violated a U.N. Security Council deadline to suspend uranium enrichment, and the council must now be ready to impose sanctions, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Thursday. Iran's president defiantly refused to compromise, saying his country won't be bullied into giving up its right to nuclear technology.

Security Council unanimity was not needed before taking action against Iran, Bolton said in a reference to continued Chinese and Russian reluctance to move quickly on sanctions.

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Iran's refusal to cooperate fully with the IAEA and its continued development of nuclear technology makes clear that it is seeking a nuclear bomb, Bolton told reporters. Iran contends its program is for peaceful purposes.

"There's simply no explanation for the range of Iranian behavior which we've seen over the years other than that they're pursuing a weapons capability," Bolton said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060831/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear_52

[liberal N proud]

1. Taking steps toward the attack

[Yavin4]

10. With What Army?

You forget that our military can barely sustain itself these days let alone launch another war.

[liberal N proud]

13. Unfortunately that does not matter to the regime or the PNAC

They will attack, there is still the Navy they can abuse.

[PresidentWar]

2. Bolton is a skunk

The guys is toxic and was always intended as a skunk in the wedding party. I don't take a thing he says as realistic or even honest.

[Selteri]

3. To be completely honest....

If I were Iran I'd be building up a nuclear stockpile to defend my butt after seeing what those crazy American SoBs in power did for some oil from Iraq.

[theanarch]

4. as much as it nauseates me to say...

...Bonkers Bolton is probably correct in the assessment that Iran is working towards its own nuclear weapons. Of course, what Bolton ISN'T going to admit is that it's the (sub-rosa) policy of Junior's junta to compell Iran to develop its own nuclear program AS A DETERRENT to US aggression (after all, Iranians have only to look across their borders--west to Iraq and east to Afghanistan--to see what happens to 'stategic-to-US-interest' countries which defy US imperialism). This is just a continuation of the policy of forcing Iran to take the utterly predictable steps to defend itself, which will be (mis-)represented to the US public (with the full complicity of the M$M and Democrats) as "Islamic Fascism". In Iran's last national election, moderates had a very good chance of pulling off a narrow victory over the hardliners--until Junior started flapping his gums, demanding that Iran elect moderates or else suffer the consequences of war (just the thing to drive moderate voters into voting for the hard-liners, which was the deliberate intent all along).

[Yavin4]

11. This Is What Happens When You Start Unprovoked Wars

You set off a chain of events that you may not be able to stop.

[theanarch]

12. agreed, but...

...the neo-con cabal is so full of themselves, they believe they can manipulate events to their advantage (hey, just like Afghanistan and Iraq!); and if they can't, plunging countries like Iran and Iraq into economic collapse, humanitarian crisis (why they go after the civilian infrastructure first) and/or civil war lessens their ability to threaten US (some loony varient of 'chaos theory' i suspect). Since virtually everything Junior's junta does is subordinated to domestic/political concerns, "success" works just as well as "failure", as long as it frightens American voters into re-electing Republicans, for fear of their safety.

[Swamp Rat]

5. No doubt as to Bolton's intentions:

Genocide.

[Jacobin]

6. Okay, then Mr. LoudMouth Bolton. You and your boy scout troops,

you go over there and invade Iran, okay? We're behind ya. Really, now. Go for it. You'll be a hero, I promise ya! Oh, and there will be flowers and the Iranian girls will kiss you as you march triumphantly down the street, OH, and I almost forGOT, your grandchildren WILL SING GREAT SONGS ABOUT YOUR BRAVERY.

Forking morons.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. The Fascist Appeasers in the GOP will let the PNAC invade yet

another country, the same way the right wing appeasers let Hitler invade all those countries years ago. Same old shit different appeaser assholes!



W-O-L-F!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. No doubt as to Bush's intentions

He and his crew seem to be salivating for an excuse, any excuse, to start dropping bombs on Tehran. I hope that he and his crew realize (eventually) that their bombing Iran will likely not only fail to completely demolish Iran's nuclear program/resources but if they end up being proven wrong about Iran's nuclear ambitions and capabilities (and why should we have reason to believe that they won't be?) then such an act would almost certainly guarantee an acceleration of their nuclear program and/or attempts to buy nukes from other states to be used against us or Israel. Additionally, the non-nuclear retaliation unleashed by Iran in response to such an attack could end up being disastrous for our troops in Iraq and Israel. Bombing Iran without any clear provocation or REAL imminent threat seems to be such a bad idea on so many levels I can't imagine any SANE person contemplating it much less seriously considering it but truth, reality, facts, etc. that don't support their beliefs simply don't matter. Unfortunately, I fear that a lot of people both here and in the ME will pay a horrific price for their lack of vision if they go through with an attack (even a limited one). Although I don't want to see Iran gaining nuclear weapons (which they might not be quite so interested in if Bush hadn't made them a charter member of the so-called "Axis of Evil" back in 2002), there has not been any evidence presented so far that Iran is any more likely use nuclear weapons against somebody else than we are (and we HAVE used them in the past and are in the process of designing and building newer ones) and, frankly, I truly believe that if we are really serious about getting rid of nuclear weapons and ending proliferation thereof, we need to start talking about getting rid of our own stockpile of WMDs and ceasing further development of new ones (i.e. "bunker busters").

[Jim__]

9. Just like there was no doubt about Iraq's nuclear program. - n/t