Bolton Says Iran Faces "tangible and painful consequences" if...

[Clara T]

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, speaks during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) annual Policy Conference in Washington, Sunday, March 5, 2006. Bolton told the AIPAC conference that a failure by the U.N. Security Council to deal with Iran's drive for nuclear weapons would "do lasting damage to the credibility of the council." "The longer we wait to confront the threat Iran poses," Bolton said, "the harder and more intractable it will become to solve." (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
3:22 p.m.  ET, 3/5/06

Bolton warns Iran of ‘painful consequences’
U.N. ambassador says U.S. has upped measures to stave off nuclear threat

WASHINGTON - Iran faces “tangible and painful consequences” if it continues its nuclear activities and the United States will use “all tools at our disposal” to stop this threat, a senior U.S. official said Sunday, ahead of a crucial international meeting on Iran.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, speaking at a convention of Jewish-Americans, said it is too soon for the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran but other countries are talking about doing so and Washington is “beefing up defensive measures to cope with the Iranian nuclear threat.”

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“The Iran regime must be made aware that if it continues down the path of international isolation, there will be tangible and painful consequences,” he told 4,500 delegates to the annual convention of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel U.S. lobbying group.

He said Iran poses a “comprehensive threat” as a state sponsor of terrorism as well as a nuclear aspirant and so “we must be prepared to rely on comprehensive solutions and use all the tools at our disposal to stop the threat that the Iranian regime poses.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11684031/

[TexasLawyer]

1. Bolton's projecting again...

he means that the US is facing tangible and painful consequences.

[Minnesota Libra]

2. The one thing Bolton forgot to mention is that.........

......Iran will be ready for our asses and will unleash everything they've got. What does Bolton care though he won't have his ass in harms way, he will be :hide:

[Mr_Spock]

3. Freak - can't wait 'till he's forced out next year

when Congress refuses to approve him.

[Random_Australian]

HA! I want someone -anyone there

to go "loss of credibility? I'll accept that, Mr. Bolton, sure... Provided you can show me any of those WMD that the U.S. staked it's credibility on"

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. bolton wants to start another war. He hasn't paid attention to what

he and his buddies have caused in Iraq. He only knows how to start wars, after that, it is apparently somebody else's problem.

[Clara T]

5. That Would Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Dr. Bolton

John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American political figure and diplomat, serving currently as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. In February 2006, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on Iraq.
Bolton was nominated by President George W. Bush to his current position on on March 7, 2005. His nomination had been the subject of a prolonged filibuster in the United States Senate by Democrats.
On August 1, 2005, President Bush installed Bolton as Ambassador to the UN via recess appointment. The recess appointment will last until a new Congress convenes in January 2007, or until Bolton is renominated and confirmed, whichever comes first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton

Before joining the Bush administration, Bolton was a member of the New Atlantic Initiative, a bipartisan initiative sponsored by AEI and funded by two right-wing foundations: Olin Foundation and Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation. The New Atlantic Initiative was launched in June 1996 following the Congress of Prague, where more than 300 conservative politicians, scholars, and investors discussed “the new agenda for transatlantic relations.”

Headquartered at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, the New Atlantic Initiative is dedicated to strengthening North Atlantic cooperation, admitting the transitional democracies of the former Soviet bloc into NATO and the European Union, and establishing a free trade area between an enlarged European Union and the NAFTA countries.11 The New Atlantic Initiative is closely associated with the Project on Transitional Democracies, and was also closely linked to the now-defunct U.S. Committee on NATO—groups that were both founded by PNAC board members.12

Bolton is an outspoken hawk on U.S. policy in the Middle East, and has since the mid-1990s been closely associated with neoconservative organizations and pressure groups that are close to the right-wing Likud party in Israel—including the Project for the New American Century, American Enterprise Institute, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), and the Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf (CPSG).

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/972

Some of Bolton's controversial statements include:
? At a 1994 panel discussion sponsored by the World Federalist Association Bolton stated "There is no such thing as the United Nations". He added that "if the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference." <10>
? "...treaties are law only for U.S. domestic purposes. In their international operation, treaties are simply political obligations". John Bolton, Wall Street Journal November 17, 1997.
? Responding to moves by a lawyer seeking to indict the then President Clinton and Secretary of Defense William Sebastian Cohen for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Yugoslavia, Bolton said: "It is a big mistake for us to grant any validity to international law even when it may seem in our short-term interest to do so - because, over the long term, the goal of those who think that international law really means anything are those who want to constrict the United States. We ought to be concerned about this so-called right of humanitarian intervention - a right of intervention that is just a gleam in one beholder's eye but looks like flat-out aggression to somebody else. What we did was bomb innocent civilian Serbs into the ground in order that the Albanians can come back and ethnically cleanse the Serbs' relatives out of what's left of Kosovo." <11>

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Bolton