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Bolton: I ‘Absolutely’
Hope The U.S. Will Attack Iran In The Next ‘Six Months’
Think
Progress
Thursday Aug 23, 2007
Yesterday,
Raw Story pointed out that former CIA operative Bob Baer told
Fox News that the Bush administration will likely attack
Iran in the coming months. “Iran policy is on close
hold, but the feeling is we will hit the Islamic Revolutionary
Guard corps sometime next six months or so,” said Baer.
Today, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton appeared on Fox News
and responded. He said that while he couldn’t confirm Baer’s
statements, he “absolutely” hoped they were true:
HEMMER: One final step here, too, that I want to take with
you. You told one of our producers earlier today that
you don’t know if it’s true — and you’ve
made that clear in our interview here, that you don’t
know what the odds are or are not against that — but you
hope it’s true. Why do you hope it’s true?
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BOLTON: Absolutely. I hope Iran understands
that we are very serious, that we are determined they are not
going to get a nuclear weapon capability, and unless they change
the strategic decision they’ve been pursuing for close
to 20 years, that that’s something they better factor
into their calculations.
Watch it:
Bolton’s calls for strikes against Iran mirror those of
other neocons, such as Bill
Kristol and Michael Rubin, who also pushed for the Iraq invasion.
Bolton’s claim that “Iran is interfering in Iraq and
is posing a direct threat to our troops” is not a reason
to strike the country. In reality, both Gen. Peter Pace and the
National Intelligence Estimate have confirmed that Iran is “not
likely” to be a major driver of violence in Iraq.
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