Bolton: Can't Trust Those Russkies
Straight from the Cold War, former ambassador John Bolton attacks Russia's decision to provide low-enriched uranium fuel to Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor. Unsurprisingly, he uses the situation to suggest that Israel (or the United States) should attack Iran's nuclear energy infrastructure prior to the insertion of the fuel rods into the reactor. The fact that Iran has agreed to turn over the spent fuel rods back to Russia after their use doesn't appear to be a part of the discussion. The Faux News anchor helpfully feeds Bolton the lines needed to sensationalize the story and slam the United Nations as a bonus. From Newsmax:
Bolton made it clear that it is widely assumed that any Israeli attack on the Bushehr reactor must take place before the reactor is loaded with fuel rods.
"If they're going to do it that's the window that they have," Bolton declared. "Otherwise as I said before, once the rods are in the reactor, if you attack the reactor you're going to open it up and radiation will escape at least into the atmosphere and possibly into the waters of the Persian Gulf.
"So most people think that neither Israel nor the United States, come to that, would attack the reactor after it's been fueled."
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The failure to demand it be shut down began in the Bush years, he said, and continues with the Obama administration "under what I believe is the mistaken theory that Iran is entitled to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.""I don't think Iran is entitled to that, or I don't think we ought to allow it to happen, because they're manifestly violating any number of obligations under the non-proliferation treaty not to seek nuclear weapons. But this has been a hole in American policy for some number of years, and Iran and Russia are obviously exploiting it," Bolton said.
The attitude that Iran isn't entitled "the peaceful use of nuclear energy" is not one shared by the many non-aligned nations who are signatories of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. It's also interesting that pundits like John Bolton and his Faux News cheerleaders always forget that it was the United States government that first encouraged Iran to develop nuclear energy.
No, this is just another opportunity for The Mustached One to get on his high horse and repeat his mantra on how Israel would be justified in attacking Iran, how Iran's threat is at least equal to the 9/11 highjackers, that containment and deterrence won't work on Iran and that only a pre-emptive attack will stop other Middle East countries from seeking nuclear weapons. He's quite mad, but the right wing still loves him.
As a side note, one might suggest to the Obama administration that it might consider abandoning the Bush administration's policy of not negotiating with Iran until it promises to abandon its nuclear weapons program and allow IAEA inspectors back into the country. Isolation tactics don't seem to work when countries with economic problems need to make deals with anyone willing to pay cash. A more nuanced (and sane) discussion of Russia's deal with Iran can be found at the Washington Post.
Whenever I see John Bolton, I wonder "How did he get that panty liner stuck on his upper lip?"
http://commoncrofts.blogspot.com/2005/08/poem...
Yosemite Sam called. He wants his moustache back.
The "Got Milk?" people are suing for trademark infringement.
me-oww!
more like "Got Yellow Cake Uranium?"
mustache in 2010.
"Russkies" what a stupid asshole, probably still refers to Japanese people as "Japs".
"Thrice-damned huns, too! I'll give the Kaiser what for!"
I see no similarity at all. And Custer had no access to today's
hair color products.
http://www.newyorkslime.com/bush-custer-02.jpg
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
The future is in solar not nuclear.
I bet they have enough sunlight in Iran.
We should be building and selling solar
panels and technology across the globe.
*daydreaming*
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Why is it everytime a repug opens his or her mouth they are advocating starting more wars when we already have too many going now. No wonder this country is broke. All the money goes to warmongers and none for our citizens.
How many Iranians does it take to launch a reactor at Bushehr? And we wonder why teh stupid it is spreading like wildfire, not that I expected any less from Faux Snooze.
"You know, it's like that song, 'When stars and stripes and eagles fly'. Fuck, man, eagles fly in Canada too!"
Cpl. Person - Generation Kill
Ron Burgundy's dad needs to shut the fuck up.
"You know, it's like that song, 'When stars and stripes and eagles fly'. Fuck, man, eagles fly in Canada too!"
Cpl. Person - Generation Kill
More like Ron Jeremy. Makes sense that a person with the nickname "Hedgehog" would have a weasel for a father. Same cheesy lip-hair, too...
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
Ron Jeremy looks like John Bolton
Who was appointed by Gerge Bush
Who appointed another classmate of...
http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2009/07/ron...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Yeah, that'll work. Remember what happened last time we allowed inspectors into a country? They didn't tell us what we wanted to hear...
That's true. We've, as a country, proven we don't care what the inspectors have to say. The demand, it makes no sense.
if you didn't have some pretty strong feelings about nooklear combat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ynY5NvYsZY
These nuts would attack Iran at the drop of a hat.
Another good reason to keep them out of power.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
masquerading as a thread hijiacking.
Or is it the other way around. I have been on too many panels in the sun.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
of Pravda.
Pure propaganda 24/7.
What are Bolton's qualifications to talk about this or anything else?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
and bristles at traditional enemies. Plus he shows up for his appointments even during recess.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I forgot about how he got his appt during the bush administration. He was just so damned right for our rep at the UN. Such a sweetheart. But why he carries his pet white gerbil on his lip is still a mystery to me.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
with Richard Gere?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Whoosh! Something just flew right over my head. What was that?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Mr. Gere, but because it proves my long standing search for the missing link in Nader's complicty in the Bush 2000
theft. Note the date:
http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/09/...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
at the International Court with the rest of the Bush War Criminals.
Except Obomba wants to "look forward".
Iran we can't trust...it's these greedy, neo-con warmongers.
What right do they have to tell another country what they can or cannot do if it's in accordance with established international agreements?? The IAEA seems to be a capable group which provided correct information re: Iraq and in other instances.
I am not a fan of the Iranian government but, lest we forget, it was our very own CIA that destroyed the democracy in Iran way back in early 50's....and we've been meddling there ever since. One big reason why so many in that part of the world hate our guts.....
Where is ROdney King when we need him ??!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
he was rejected after auditioning to become one of the Village People back in the '70's.
There are also stories of a video circulating that was made in 2003 of a clearly intoxicated Bolton and Karl Rove doing the YMCA dance in their underwear in Bolton's hotel room.
let's hope it is never posted.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Even if you believe you can't trust the Russian's why the hell would you come out and say it. This guy was from the cold war era? Not a bright bulb obviously.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Those rods are scheduled to be loaded into the reactor this Saturday, August 21.
If "we" don't act today, there will only be 3 days left to save humanity!
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Glen Beck's rally.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Well hell, we can't allow that to happen. Glenn almost worked up a tear yesterday when someone sent him eight pennies. We only saw seven of the pennies but we trust Glenn. Of course it cost the person more for the stamp than the pennies themselves were worth.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
...moronic walrus, coo coo kachoo
"He wrote this book here and the book says ; He made us all to be just like him So, if we're dumb, then god is dumb and maybe even a little ugly on the side".
Frank Zappa
If we could, someone should be dispatched to Hollywood, to the storage bin where all the OLD movie props are kept and find the fake bomb that Slim Pickins road down to the end in Dr. No... Bolton sure looks like Slim; sounds like slim (kinda, otherwise he sounds like Pinochet or Kim Sung Il of North Korea).... so re-making that scene with Bolton and the fake bomb.
BUT, this time actually launch the fake bomb outta the back of a C-17 at about 35,000 ft - with Bolton strapped onto it; Lit cigar in his mouth; and, play the music of that scene from Dr. No on the planes loud speakers as he goes sailing toward an imaginary target in the Mojave Desert... That way, Bolton will get all his self-perceived glory for him self (actually we're laughing ourselves silly watching this circus); as it's carried live by every Cluster-Fox, 9-watt transmitter available in the free world, so cluster-fox can try to scare everyone one last time before the bomb actually HITS the buried Cluster-Fox bunker in the Mojave desert. It will be armed with a Dummy Warhead for Dummies... Poof !!! That's the last of the Cluster machine..
And, for our next exciting chapter, we visit the glowing remains of chimpy's pig farm pond in crawdad texas one last time before it becomes part of the new Northern Province of Mexico.. That's going to happen by the end of next year when the Give-Back papers are finalized. We're turning texas back over to Mexico because we don't want it anymore. The ground is not worth the grief..
"Great horny toads."
I saw John Bolton at the local grocery store (Bethesda, MD) last year. I still regret that I didn't publicly denounce him.
(The same thing happened when I met David Petraeus at a meeting this past December.)
You almost have to know what you will say to these folks before you meet them. When they stand before you, it's (unfortunately) all too easy to assume a dumb-founded expression [Wow! That's ______! What are the chances?!] instead of making a stand. Of course, as in the case of Petraeus, it's all the more difficult to collect your thoughts when he is surrounded by an entourage of eight or more members of the secret service.
Oh, the regret!
Iran has a LEGAL right to have a nuclear power plant to produce electricity and to be used for medical purposes.
The fact that Bolton can sit there and pompously suggest it is not only acceptable, but an IMPERATIVE that Israel (or the U.S.) "take out" Iran's nuclear reactor within a few days should be AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW!
Where is the U.N.?
Why is Russia not calling an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to check Israel and the U.S. on this matter?
Both China and Russia have BILLIONS invested in various energy projects with Iran.
Has the United States gone stark raving MAD in it's BLIND SUPPORT for Israel? Israel, a country that actually HAS hundreds of nuclear weapons and is HIDING THEM. Israel, a country that refuses all inspections of it's nuclear sites. Israel, a country that refuses to become a signatory to the NNPT!
Never mind that the U.S. has been faithfully financing all of this insanity against The Symington Amendment since 1976!
For God's sake! A strike on Iran that Bolton is cheerleading for could lead to World War III and nary one word of protest in the MSM or from the American public or from other countries?!
The fact that this isn't topic one on every major news channel and in every newspaper in this country is proof positive that the media is under the thumb of the Neocons.
WTF is going on?
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/gsmith.php?articl...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
You'd think that by the actions of practically the entire world that nobody gives a flying fark what the US wants or says anymore. It's as if we've turned into a 3rd world country, or something.
I'm sure his wife has to insert herself...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSjElLx3QZo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1WGPEbwr0k
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Nope, can't trust the Russians. Can't trust the west, either.
Iran still has the right to pursue nuclear power anyway, so all of Bolton's bluster is just a cock fart.
that's right, if Putin can fly a plane with water over a fire what will he drop on us? time to go rent Doctor Strangelove...
Raw Video: Putin Fights Wildfires with Water Bomber
To speed up the process of firefighting across Central Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin got behind the controls of an amphibious water bomber Beriev Be-200 plane. http://www.newslook.com/videos/240402-raw-vid...
....so '70s.
MZ
100% wrong, 100% of the time. Bolton is a true neo-con.
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