What a monumental case of hypocrisy (not to mention stupidity) that the Bolton dolt would even mention 'constitutional legitimacy'.

When this election is over, can we send him to the front with a rubber AK47 and see how long he lasts?

It's called "projection," the cons accuse us of doing what they are actually doing.

Like when they accused Gore of trying to steal the 2000 election.

That's rich. Can anyone imagine our "decider" actually able to take even two pieces of information and drawing a conclusion, (remembering the first while reading the second), yet alone the numerous sources that the intelligence people do? I have seen no sign of that level of intellect from Chimpy. And isn't the State Department a branch of the Repug party like the rest of our government?

lets hope he still feels that way in a year when he is in jail

Just curious -- but as our delegate to the UN wouldn't Bolton have been considered a part of the State Department?

Conservatives are doing exactly what they accuse liberals of doing, accepting the NIE they agree with and denouncing the one they disagree with. If conservatives would just listen (or in the case of opinion leaders like Bolton, stop pretending) they would find out that we're not saying the newer NIE is right. We're saying it contradicts the Bush policy. While it doesn't prove Iran isn't up to no good, it does prove the intelligence community thinks conservatives are wrong, and conservatives can't point to the NIE for backing anymore. In fact, they have nothing but their assumptions to point to anymore.

Israel may have to take military action against Iran: Bolton

ww.spacewar.com/2006/080121161952.cdujjlnf.html

HERZLIYA, Israel, Jan 21 (AFP) Jan 21, 2008
Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said on Monday that Israel may have to take military action to prevent its archfoe Iran from acquiring an atomic bomb.
Bolton also said that further UN sanctions against the Islamic republic will be ineffective in stopping Iran's controversial nuclear programme which Israel and the US believe is aimed at developing a bomb -- a claim denied by Tehran.

"One can say with some assurance that in the next year the use of force by the United States is highly unlikely," Bolton told AFP on the sidelines of the Herzliya conference on the balance of Israel's national security.

"That increases the pressure on Israel in that period of time... if it feels Iran is on the verge of acquiring that capability, it brings the decision point home to use force," he said.

The hawkish former diplomat said that after a US intelligence report published late last year that claimed Iran had suspended a nuclear weapons programme in 2003, the US was unlikely to take military action against it.

"The pressure is on Israel now after the National Intelligence Estimate because, I think, the likelihood of American use of force has been dramatically reduced," he said.

Widely considered the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear power, Israel considers Iran its number one enemy following repeated statements by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map.

Bolton said that military action against Iran should be taken before Tehran acquires a bomb.

"The calculus in the region changes dramatically once Iran has nuclear capability, meaning the preemptive use of force or the overthrow of the Iranian regime has to come before they get the weapon," Bolton said.

"If you are worried about an Iran with nuclear weapons and an extreme theological regime in power, the time to take the plan of action is before Iran acquires the weapons.

"Once it acquires the weapons there is a risk of retaliation with nuclear capability and that's why Israel is in danger -- it is a very small country and two or three nuclear weapons (and) there is no more country. The pressure to act is intensive and the window of time available is narrow."

Bolton also said that despite Iranian threats to hit hard if it is attacked, "their response will be a lot more measured than people think."

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week said that all options were on the table to prevent an Iranian bomb. The Israeli military last week also successfully test-fired a ballistic missile said to be able to carry a non-conventional warhead.

Bolton said that a new round of United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran was "unlikely" and that Tehran would not be deterred by further diplomatic sanctions.

"Maybe there will be another resolution but it will be even more toothless than the previous two sanction resolutions... International pressure through diplomacy of sanction has no chance of shifting Iran's policies over the next year."

A senior Israeli security official said in reaction that "one should listen very closely to what Bolton has to say."

I do believe the State Department is a part of Bush's executive branch.

Bolton seems to think that by virtue of being president Bush is entitled to the "intelligence" he and Cheney want -they think that, too; facts be damned.

Supdog >"...of our constitutionally elected monarch."

No, that is not true.

Bush and his cronies have never been elected "constitutionally". The Supreme Court stepped into the 2000 mess (an unconstitutional action, the election should have gone to the House to be decided & yes, I suspect the outcome would have been the same but at least it would have been constitutional) & Ohio (at the least) was not a valid election in 2004.

Not that any thing can be done about either instance of course.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

I thought this snake was GONE! And now he shows up shilling his book at a Tel-aviv book store? Giving quotes to the Jeruselum Post? Is that a far east version of the Washington Post? Its enugh to make you lose your appetite. Can't wait until the ass tries the same at a bookstore in the US!

Even so, the betting line on a prospective US/Israeli covert attack on Iran has not gone up ...

The line on Gonzales's resignation started to move before he resigned. There are other examples ...

Bellicosity from Bolton may not mean planes are about to take off.

I would love to make money off this disaster. What is the way to bet ?

To: Anonymous

Forget about giving Bolton a "real" AK-47 and dumping him in Iraq. Like the majority of the warmonger pussies(you know,the anticommunist neocons), Bolton opted out of his opportunity to "kill a commie for mommie" or otherwise backup his martial chauvinism with meanigful actions.

Bolton didn't take the deferment route, but chose to cynically abuse the system--like, ah, Dubya--and enlisted in the Maryland National Guard. As you know, during most of the post-WWII era, National Guard service brought little risk of seeing combat, a fact Bolton was well aware. (See below.)

And remember how Conservatives criticized (Vietnam vet) John Kerry's statement regarding being the last man to die for a mistake? Well, it seems, Bolton thinks "others" losing their lives is just fine. (Again, see below.)

"Though Bolton supported the Vietnam War, he enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard and did not serve in Vietnam. He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book ,I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost.,"[4]
4. Ross Goldberg and Sam Kahn, "Bolton's conservative ideology has roots in Yale experience", Yale Daily News, April 28, 2005.

Sigh. Maybe if all those neocon hardchargers and their fellow travelers (Dick Cheney [5 deferments!!], Bill Kristol, John Podhoretz, John Cornyn, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Richard Perle, Saxby Chambliss, Brit Hume, Tom DeLay, the Kagan brothers, Paul Wolfowitz, Charles, "'cripple" Krauthammer, Marty Peretz, Peter Navarro, Doug Feith and on and on)enlisted or sought commissions like the pinko libbies, such as Al Gore, John Kerry,Tom Daschle, John Conyers, Pete Stark, David Bonior, Sandy Berger and Victor Navasky (publisher emeritus of "The Nation"--imagine a super-lefty!! rather than obtaining draft deferments and abusing the system. the U.S. may have defeated North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. But noooo. No serving for them, just ob-serving and writing jingoistic crap.

Anyway, I guess the warmongering pussies made the right decision. After 50K dead and over 300K wounded, Vietnam is STILL communist and reduced to an enemy shrimp dumper (supposedly).

Pathetic, no?