Posted on 06/27/2006 7:16:42 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot
John Bolton, a notorious neocon warmonger who could not be confirmed as America's ambassador to the United Nations by even the compliant and corrupt U.S. Senate, got the job as a recess appointment. He is using the platform to push America into war with Iran.
Bolton told the Financial Times on June 9 that the Bush regime has no intention of reaching an agreement with Iran. Time is running out for diplomacy, Bolton said.
Iran has a short time remaining in which it can give up its right under the nonproliferation treaty to enrich uranium for nuclear energy or be attacked.
Bolton said that U.S. security guarantees for Iran "were not on the table."
There is no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Every physicist knows that the enrichment requirement for weapons is many times greater than for nuclear energy and that Iran can barely achieve the latter (and Paul knows because he has talked to every physicist).
Despite the facts, Bolton told the Financial Times: "They've [Iran] got both feet on the accelerator, which is why we have a sense of urgency. Each day that goes by gives Iran more time to continue to perfect its efforts for mass production."
Bolton is lying through his teeth.
The Bush regime's lies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and propagandistic references to mushroom clouds convinced the befuddled American public to accept an illegal invasion of Iraq. The same collection of neocon war criminals is again deceiving the American public about Iran.
In his remarks to the Financial Times, Bolton shows himself to be extremely disturbed by the prospect that the diplomatic efforts of Europe, Russia and China could undermine the Bush regime's plan to attack Iran. Bolton is doing everything possible to make certain that there is no diplomatic solution.
To help undermine any prospect for peace in the Middle East, Israeli gunboats shelled a public beach and killed or wounded 50 Palestinians.
This was done in order to provoke Hamas into abandoning the long-established ceasefire that Hamas had imposed (I guess Paul hasn't heard about the Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel?) in the interest of negotiating a Palestinian settlement.
The Israeli government succeeded, and now there will a resurgence of "Hamas terrorism" that Bolton and his neocon compatriots can use to build a frightening spectacle of Muslim terrorism.
The Bush-Olmert axis-of-evil (Those damn neo-cons and Jooooos!) has made it clear that, "We don't want no stinking peace."
Writing in Antiwar.com on June 10, University of California professor Jorge Hirsch explains the tripwire that the Bush regime has laid for Iran in order to have an excuse to launch an attack on that country. Just as the Bush regime planned to attack Iraq and then orchestrated a case based on lies, the Bush regime has already planned to attack Iran. Only this time, nuclear weapons will be used.
Nuking Iran is an essential part of the attack plan. The United States lacks the necessary conventional military force to invade and occupy Iran, but the use of nuclear weapons against Iran has a wider purpose. The neocons are determined not to have any more embarrassments, such as the Iraqi insurgency.
By nuking Iran, they intend to send a wider message that the United States will use every means at its disposal to ensure its hegemony. The neocons believe that the use of nukes will convince Arabs and the wider world that there is no recourse to accepting America's will.
The neoconservatives could not care less about public opinion. Neocons are contemptuous of the American people. Leo Strauss taught neocons that it was their duty to deceive the clueless American people in order to implement their agenda of global domination.
The neocons believe that they have a perfect right, even the obligation, to manipulate the public through propaganda and black ops in order to create acceptance and support for their wars of aggression.
Neocons are the epitome of evil, and they have succumbed to hubris. Like Hitler when he attacked the Soviet Union, neocons believe that their manipulative skills and use of military power will carry the day for their agenda.
Hitler's hubris doomed Germany to destruction.
What price will America pay for neocon hubris?
When the neocon Nazis nuke Iran, it will revive memories in Japan and break the U.S.-Japanese alliance. Japan owns enough U.S. Treasury bonds to be able to destroy both the U.S. dollar and the market for Washington's endless red ink.
Russia, China, India and even our European lackeys will have it forcefully brought home to them that the United States is an out-of-control rogue nation. They will unify against us. Most likely our bought-and-paid-for puppets in the Middle East will fall, and Islamic leaders will gain Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Al-Qaida will gain tens of millions of recruits.
Francis Fukuyama's phrase, "the end of history," takes on new meaning. COPYRIGHT 2006 CREATORS SYNDICATE INC.
A+Bert was, in his own way, truly unique. I remember him trying to get the USA vs Clinton thread folks up at around 3 AM on Inauguration Day in 2001. "Hey, the day is here! Start the thread!" At the same time, he was very kind and considerate when we spoke on threads. I do miss him.
I never dealt with A+Bert. What was the cause of his departure?
Alcohol. LOL
Drunken posting?
I admired his ability to flame. I could probably argue that he was the inspiration for our Smoky Backroom.
Out of control. I forget exactly when, but one could practically set one's clock by it.
Only if decides to put on a "martyrdom vest."
He sounds like a total moron.
Afghanistan was part of the job.
Iraq was another part of the job.
Two, or maybe three, parts are left:
Iran, Syria and possibly Saudi Arabia if the Saud family doesn't stop pandering to Wahhabists.
Doctor's appt. Back later....
Paul Craig Roberts suffers from Bush deraingement syndrom. Moreover, he joins a sad pantheon of former conservatives who hate Israel more than they love America.
Neocon and "Jew" mean the same thing. It's these foreign agents with nefarious motives pulling the wool over the whole country!
Paranoid delusionists like Roberts and Buchanan are not about to be deterred by mere facts. Its a conspiracy, I tell you!
Marry him off to Cindy.
There must clearly be a new psychological syndrome to be classified, akin to the Stockholm Syndrome, where a formerly rational person adopts the world view and accepts as truth the perfidious lies and falsities of the most vicious enemies of the sufferer's own culture and national group. I would call it "Fisk's Syndrome".
Perhaps first experienced by T.E. Lawrence, though I would be happy to accept correction on this, it is essentially a form of "going native", or "going Arab". The sufferer seems not to understand the implications of his his turnabout in values and world view, as if it were followed out to its fevered and obsessive conclusion, it would mean the death of the afflicted, his family, culture, and everything he formerly held dear. Roberts seems to be trying to find someone to surrender to, and at the same time he attacks the foundation of logic and reality that his own feet stand on.
Where will this lead the sufferer? To personal decline and mental torment, certainly, since his grand predictions are falling one by one, more a series of paranoid rants than reasoned arguments. How long will he remain in this condition before he descends into bedlam, is anyone's guess.
The man in delusional, if not completely insane. Case closed.
I had never heard of him, but did a search to see if a particular artilce of his I just saw was posted on FR. It said he was a former editor for National Review and had a post in the Reagan Admin. But, reading his article was like reading someting from DU. Was he always like that?
susie
This piece is an embarrassment to all 'stream of consciousness' journalism everywhere.
Maybe he wanted a post in the administration and they turned him down? He seems to have come unhinged during this administration. Maybe he's got mad cow?
As good an explanation as any. I don't recall what he was like before, but he seems like a raving lunitic now.
susie
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