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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 07:32 PM
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John Bolton finds a silver lining: "With the focus on Gaza now, it's a great time to bomb Iran!"
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Bolton: Gaza Crisis Means We Should Attack Iran Now

Yesterday, on Fox’s Hannity and Colmes, Iran war hawk John Bolton said that Israel’s recent bombing campaign in Gaza is all the more reason for the United States to bomb Iran now. “So while our focus obviously is on Gaza right now, this could turn out to be a much larger conflict,” he said, adding that “we’re looking at potentially a multi-front war here.”

“You would strike Iran right now?” asked host Alan Colmes. “I would have done it before this,” Bolton responded. Colmes asked whether tensions and war across Middle East would escalate if the U.S. or Israel were to bomb Iran. Bolton said that the many Arab countries would secretly be cheering if Iran were attacked:

COLMES: So if we do that, they strike back, are we then in danger of creating a broader war?

BOLTON: I think in many Arab states in the region, although they wouldn’t say it publicly, they’d be doing the equivalent of popping champagne corks because the Arab states don’t want Iran with nuclear weapons any more than Israel does. What Iran could do is what’s already happening in the Gaza Strip or what might happen if they unleashed Hezbollah, terrorist attacks on Israel.


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AnOhioan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 07:33 PM
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1. 3 words......Fuck You, Bolton
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Naturyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 07:35 PM
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2. Totally bat-shit crazy (n/t)
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polly7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 07:35 PM
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3. Psychopathic P.O.S. n/t
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 07:44 PM
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4. I heard Netanyahu quoted on NPR today and questioned whether the neocons
are attempting to provoke Iran. :mad:
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 08:11 PM
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5. Why doesn't he suit up and attack Iran?
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-30-08 09:01 PM
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6. Drop Bolton on Iran.
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