Administration officials are prepared for fireworks during Wednesday’s hearing, when Democratic House members are expected to make noise over the administration’s failure to find significant evidence of WMD in Iraq.
Bolton’s testimony is intended to put to rest White House critics who claim the administration used WMD as a ruse to invade Iraq, while outlining a sweeping policy toward other “Axis of Evil” and rogue states, such as Iran and North Korea.
Bolton will tell the committee that the U.S. aims ultimately "not just to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction but also to eliminate or ‘roll back’ such weapons from rogue states and terrorist groups that possess them or are close to doing so."
Though Bolton will stress the U.S. will seek peaceful and diplomatic solutions to the proliferation threat, he will add, ominously, “we rule out no options."
Among those options, Bolton will say, is pre-emptive military force, “as the case of Iraq demonstrates.”
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