Posted on 05/27/2007 7:58:48 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Thursday, May 24, 2007 3:00 p.m. EDT
John Bolton: ElBaradei an 'Apologist' for Iran
John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, says Europe has to "get serious” about the threat of Iran’s nuclear push or face grave consequences if Iran develops nuclear weapons.
Bolton, appearing Thursday as a guest on Fox News Channel, said U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran can only go so far toward slowing Iran's uranium enrichment process, but will not stop Iran from developing nuclear bombs.
"Certainly, it’s worth putting more sanctions through the security council, although the ones in place now are weak and watered down,” Bolton said. "We really need to get our friends in Europe to get serious about this matter. Over the past several months, they’ve wanted sanctions without pain. They don’t want to interfere with their trade and investments for Iran. That won’t work, and until they get serious, that won’t solve the problem.”
Bolton said Thursday’s report by the IAEA that Iran may be only three to eight years away from developing a nuclear bomb should serve as a wake-up call to those who believe Iran’s nuclear goals are purely wholesome.
"What the IAEA report this week shows is that the Iranians are very close to an industrial scope enrichment capability, which means the timing of getting to a nuclear weapon is largely in their hands,” Bolton said. "I think we need a dramatic ramp up of pressure, and if we can’t get that quickly from the Europeans, unfortunately we’re going to have to do something else like regime change or, as a last resort, a use of force by the United States [to stop Iran’s proliferation].”
Bolton blames the IAEA director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, for much of the frustrating foot dragging with regard to the forcefulness and effectiveness of U.N. Security Council sanctions on Iran.
"One thing we have to do very clearly in the IAEA is tell the director general there to sit down and stop trying to interfere with our [U.S.] efforts to prevent proliferation,” Bolton said. "ElBaradei . . . has been an apologist for Iran right from the start of this, that’s why his continued efforts on a diplomatic front have been unhelpful.”
El Baradei is pulling same garbage in Iran as he did with Iraq.....kept vacilating .....Saddam may have weapons.....he’ll let us in.....no he won’t .... blah blah... He does a lousy job; intimates that America should act and when we do, he’s right there to criticize us.
He’s writing a book.
I’m not thinking it’s at all helpful, to have anyone with a name starting in “el-”, responsible for controlling the nuclear ambitions of (any) fundamentalist terrorist-supporting regime.
Seems like a rather clear conflict of interest, in fact.
I’d lkike to see him as someone’s Sect’y of State
2) Puti-put has a problem that he can't hide, because all radioactive material has a signature of radioactivity unique to the reactor where it was created.
3) Puti-put can't help attacking the USA along with Iran with an all out nuclear war, because once the President of Iran follows his messianic islamofascist masturbation fantasies and launches it's Russian made nukes at Israel, or God forbid the USA. When we examine the radioactive Russian nuclear signature, they will be caught and it's boom-boom out goes the light.
4) Puti-put has got to launch whatever throw-weight of nuclear missles they have working directing at us, because he knows that once we have the Russian nuclear signiture, we'll retaliate immediately.
5) Another possible "hook in the jaw" that could cause the Russians to unite with the Arabs could be reached when Iran announces later this summer that it has the nuclear cycle complete.
El Barfly has been lying since he started the whole Saddam Insane plan to destabilize Iraq and put our troops into a protracted 5th generation war.
He's working for Iran.
John Bolton is today's John Wayne imho.
If Bush or half of the republicans in DC had as much courage as him the USA would be a far better place!!!
Not a very strong point for you to make, since Iraq didn't have WMDS. Bush says it was a failure of Western intelligence to have believed Iraq had WMDS. But you're saying El Baradei was giving "garbage" because he was skeptical about what Bush now says was faulty intelligence?
He's just realizing this now?
I could very well imagine Bolton as Secretary of State under President Hunter or Thompson.
We’re (U.S.) just doing the dance. Most thinking people, I believe, expects the Iranian problem to be addressed by the Israelis. I suspect that the Israelis have very good intelligence on where the Iranians stand in regard to manufacturing a nuclear weapon, and a delivery system as well. Concerning the U.N. and the Europeans; they are a pathetic, flaccid bunch for sure. I don’t even want to bother with addressing how gutless these people are.
I’ll vote for that
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