French report: Former U.N. envoy Bolton says U.S. has 'no strategic interest' in united Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/29/europe/EU-GEN-France-US-Iraq.php

French report: Former U.N. envoy Bolton says U.S. has 'no strategic interest' in united Iraq
The Associated Press

PARIS: Former U.S. envoy to the United Nations John Bolton said in an interview published in France that the United States has "no strategic interest" in a united Iraq.

Bolton, who resigned last month from his temporary appointment as U.N. ambassador, also told the French daily Le Monde that U.S. President George W. Bush's administration acted too slowly to hand power over to Iraqis after toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003.

"We did a disservice to Iraqis by depriving them of political leaders," Bolton was quoted as saying, adding that the Coalition Provisional Authority that initially ran Iraq allowed terrorists to regroup. Bolton was speaking in English, and the interview was published in French. An English-language copy of the interview was not available.

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"The United States has no strategic interest in the fact that there's one Iraq, or three Iraqs," he was quoted as saying. "We have a strategic interest in the fact of ensuring that what emerges is not a state in complete collapse, which could become a refuge for terrorists or a terrorist state."

[Kagemusha]

1. Classic statement that's technically true but reckless in practical terms

Bolton's good at making these, grr.

[HereSince1628]

2. What he means is we should have put Chalabi in charge right away

That way we'd have a friendly government in place.

In his mind the US Hegemonic interest precludes consideration of a strategic need.

[The Count]

3. Thus spoketh the Armageddon Man. Not that he was more diplomatic when

in his job - at least give him that: he is consistently offensive.

[Eugene]

4. Like other neocons, Bolton is trying to blame others for the mess in Iraq.

Bolton says that the CPA deprived Iraq of political leaders.
Does he mean Ahmed Chalabi and Iyad Allawi, a thief and a thug?
Those two exiles had little support among the Iraqi people.

Like a true neocon, Bolton sees chaos and collapse as opportunity.
His narrow vision of the national interest fails to notice that
redrawing national borders can cause as many problems as they solve.
Partitioning Iraq may make it easier to grab the oil but it risks
plunging the whole region into conflict.

[bdamomma]

5. what a hypocrite Bolton is, always blame someone else huh ?

these thugs are disgusting.