Bolton: U.S. should help Israel hit Iran

[Scurrilous]

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"Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton said the United States should assist Israel in any strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

The ex-U.S. envoy in an op-ed in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal said the United States must consider what assistance to extend to Israel before and after an airstrike.

"We will be blamed for the strike anyway, and certainly feel whatever negative consequences result, so there is compelling logic to make it as successful as possible," wrote Bolton, who was known for his hawkish foreign policy views. "At a minimum, we should place no obstacles in Israel's path, and facilitate its efforts where we can."

Bolton said the efforts to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions through sanctions had failed, and even if they could still be enacted, the time for their effectiveness has passed. He also lashed out at presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama for advocating the threat of sanctions and incentives for changed behavior to divert Tehran from its present course."

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109476.html

[LeftishBrit]

1. LeftishBrit: Someone should help Bolton know when to shut his mouth!

[RC]

2. All these criminals know is violance and lying.

When are we going to round them up, stuff them in brightly colored jump suits and chain them to the deck of a KC-130 bound for the Hague?

[razors edge]

3. "We will be blamed for the strike anyway"

Got a frog in your pocket there John boy?

[DrDan]

4. I wish someone would take this shameless hawk

out back and teach him a lesson or two.

What a chickenhawk. Another national guard wienie - escaping Viet Nam like his previous boss.

[muntrv]

5. Drop John Bolton over Iran.

[bemildred]

6. Dolton has spent his entire career being aggressively wrong.

He's like Kissinger without the social skills.

[number6]

7. Bolton is a

mental case :hide: :nuke: