On CNN this Tues, Yosemite Sam John Bolton, who previously has claimed that the threat from Iran’s nuclear program is “Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time” and that he “absolutely” hopes that the Bush administration will bomb Iran in the coming months, insists his opinions remain unchanged following Monday’s release of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. Blitzer tries to pin him down, but Bolton continues spinning every which way he can think of to downplay its findings throughout the entire interview.
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Here’s just a snippet of the bamboozlement:
Bolton: Well, I think it’s potentially wrong, but I would also say, many of the people who wrote this are former State Dept employees who during their career at the State Dept never gave much attention to the threat of the Iranian program. Now they are writing as (fingers quote) ‘members of the intelligence community’ the same opinions that they’ve had four and five years ago.
Blitzer: President Bush says he has confidence in this new NIE. He says they revamped the intelligence community after the blunders involving the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He says there’s a whole new community out there and he has total confidence in what the National Intelligence Director is doing.
Bolton: Well, I don’t …
This is the same guy who claims he tried to get an Iranian diplomat fired after he delivered an offer of peace and reconciliation with the US from the highest levels of the more moderate (pre-Ahmadinejad) Iranian government back in 2003 (when we now learn they stopped their nuclear weapons program) following their cooperation in the war on al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Does anyone really think there’s anything, and I mean anything, that the NIE could have said or for that matter, anything that Iran could possibly have done that could curb John Bolton’s priaprism to drop bombs on them?
Filed Under: Foreign Policy, Intelligence Gathering, Iran, John Bolton, Neocons/PNAC, The Situation Room/Wolf Blitzer
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“Oooooh, Iran- ya better say yer prayers, ya flea-bitten varmint, I’m a-gonna blow ya to smithereenies!”
That guy is a certifiable wacko.
Hempkin at large!
He’s incompetent, irrelevant, and out of touch with reality, and therefore certain to be promoted.
In a slightly more just world a man like John Bolton would be in the docket at The Hague.
Of course, like all the NeoCons, he’s utterly delusional, and his “I’ve made up my mind, don’t confuse me with the facts” attitude would be amusing if it wasn’t so dangerous.
- fingers quote - With all due respect - close fingers quote - did Bolton contract syphillis at Plato’s Retreat and never had it treated by a physician? Because frankly, he sounds insane, as if perhaps his mind were ravaged by disease.
I will say this… it seems clear that Bolton and his “Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight” ilk are pissed off, and the timing of this NIE report could very well be an attempt by the intelligence agencies to undercut their Strangelovian rush to war.
A number of reports have leaked out over the past year that have looked like salvos in an information war between the NeoCons and the CIA.
Phew. For a minute there I wasn’t sure Captain Kangaragnarok would be able to out-crazy everyone else on this, but if there’s one man you can count on to out-crazy, you can count on Cap Bolton.
this guy getting up there and defending the admin ’s bullshit is funny…it can’t'be anything else..but funny……it’s so far outside the realm of reality……..all you can do is laugh.
Ah yes … John Bolton at his most “little geek boy on the playground pummeling with clenched fists anyone stupid enough to stand still.” Of course, he’s only a hero in his adolescent fantasies.
I’m really, really tired of middle-aged 13-year-olds. And there are *plenty* in this incompetent administration.
I have a feelin that the Intelligence community….has had enough.
The press: “Mr. Pres, no one can find any nukes that are being made by BUGS BUNNY”.
Bush: “But still I think he COULD START making them any second now.”
You don’t have confidence in your own intelligence? Then it’s the commanders fault. I believe his name is GW Bush. Get in touch with him.
“Bolton Not Swayed in the Slightest by the NIE on Iran”
A War Crimes Tribunal ought to clear that right up!
IMPEACH the treasonous war criminal bush cabal PNAC Carlyle funded war mongering and war profiteering cronies for their crimes!
wisedup @ 11:
shhhhhh!…be bewwwy quiet…….weeez huntin nukular weapons of mind deswtactuion.
bolton’s our face to the un and the cheap bastard can’t even drop by the mall and buy himself some decent mustache dye.
kind of a nut bar, huh?
“Blessed are the war makers, for they shall find a lasting home in my abode” - Satan
I’m sooo sick of these lying pricks.
Maybe we should water board the truth out of Bolton and Rove and all the rest of these sick fucks.Taser ‘em.
lewisnclark @ 4:
And on the news tonight Bush is still saber ratteling with Iran saying they still are a threat.
I have to say though, the neo-cons are starting to loose their influence. More independent groups are coming out of the woodwork to challenge their claims. But the neo-cons, being who they are, will continue to be in total denial even as their ship sinks.
Of course the neoCons are going to try to spin this. They’re salivating over another war.
I loved the headline that Bush still thinks Iran is dangerous despite the reports; I still think Bush is an idiot despite the reports.
Why do we even bother with spending our taxes on intelligence agencies? (at least during republic administrations) Apparently a bunch of Texas oilmen and women and their associates are better informed, armatures that they are, than the experts. Just curious, is there anything a neo-conman isn’t an expert on?
PFFFFfffffff….. These are neo-cons for you.
They want to bomb the shit out of every Middle Eastern country regardless of the evidence.
Yikes! Is that guy with the facial fungus still around?
I wonder what he is hiding under that facial adornment.
Could it be the number 666?
he too is a criminal.
why is it that the neo-cons always see conspiracies against them everywhere?
of course its rather ironic that they themselves are a conspiracy, but thats another story.
Chris from Maine @ 25:
My guess would be because 80% of the country are out to remove them from power permanently. They may not be right about much, but they are right that the American people are out to get them.
What a pathetic little man. And to think he was our UN ambassador! History will look back on the past seven years as a truly dark era in our nation.
id love to crap in his moustache!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn the NIE report on Iran. Full steam ahead!
Admiral John “Farragut” Bolton
I am not swayed in the slightest by what Pinocchio’s “grandpa” says.
Priaprism? How long have you waited to drop that word in a sentence? And what does it mean?
Bolton, like the whole, rotten crew to whom he pledges allegiance, is a war lover (that is, so long as he’s not the one being shot at). An American fascist, a vile swine of a man, an abortion of humanity.
And congressional democrats do NOTHING to stop them. Or as good as nothing. Their sins of omission transcend the administration’s war crimes, because they profess to know better. My contempt for both parties is total.
Straight Shooter @ 5:
Cheney’s had brain damage from all of his heart problems. Bush has Korsikoff’s(sp?) syndrome. Ted Haggard, the White House “spiritual advisor” is a crankhead. So maybe it’s possible that Bolton’s brain is being ravaged by a STD. Restoring morality to the office of the president, one nutcase at a time.
tyree @ 28:
heh-that “stache” looks like the South end of a constipated goat.
tyree @ 28:
omg
DIRTYSANCHEZTHREAD!
LongTooth @ 31:
Nice usage. I had to look it up. Bolton has a major wood for more war.
Bolton has the Wilford Brimley mustache of understanding. He has special Quaker Oatmeal and Liberty Medical powers of discernment
jr @ 36:
well yeah,there’s that too…
Straight Shooter @ 5:
First, I believe one must have sex in oirder to contract Syphillus. I can’t imagine this guy getting laid on a planet full of lobotomized coke-whores if he had steamer trunk full of it!
El Cid @ 7:
Instead of bombs, how about if we just drop John Bolton on them. That oughta scare them sh*tless.
how I wish people would invite Bolton on t.v. with a grapefruit on a plate between them only to “do a Cagney” on him as soon as he starts talking like that.
same with Bill Kristol…
and a lot of others, come to think of it.
I HATE John Bolton - he’s a goofy arrogant lying con scumbag.
dan @ 21:
Several things, actually. The Constitution, legitimacy, logic, truth and compassion to name a few.
Paul @ 17:
and ye shall know them by their actions.
Boltons perspective sounds very reasonable. Don’t you think there any room for a critical assessment of this report?
Just like Yosemite Sam, Bolton will not stop in his pursuit of them dagburned varmints. Must be ’cause they stole his oil by living on top of it for thousands of years.
i hope people will note the sheer nonsense being spoken by these Busheviks and hold them to their proper ridicule.
they look like Hollywood film caracitures of doctrinaire Communists from the 1950’s.
Look, I admit I was skeptical at first but then I realized that Iran is full of brown people and that they are not christians! If we’re going to bomb the shit out of these people it is imperative we do it before they have nucular weapons cause then we’d have to be their friend.
John Bolton: dumb as a box of rocks.
Some months back, I saw Bolten on The Daily Show say that Abraham Lincoln did not listen to dissenting views and other statements about Lincoln’s cabinet. The next night, Stewart had an expert on Lincoln who has written one of the preeminent books on Lincoln and his cabinet. She tore to pieces everything Bolten had said the night before. I lost a lot of respect for him after this. It was hard to believe that someone who speaks so suredly as he had and in his position could be so wrong (not that hard to believe). I no longer trust anything he has to say, which is not to say that everything he says is wrong. Only that HIS saying it carries no weight with me as it should not with you. Maybe C&L could find this archive and put it up alongside Yosemite Sam’s statements on CNN today.
Can you imagine *being* your average Iranian in Iran listening to the US politicians debate whether to bomb your country - with the continuing bloodshed in Iraq as an everpresent reminder of what American air power can do to a country?
Bush & Cheney & Bolton’s sabre rattling IS terrorism .. international terrorism.
State-sponsored terrorism.
And “we” are IT.
You know…he does look like Yosemite Sam. I never f’ing noticed that. I suck. (posted at skewz.com)
What we have here is an amazing effort to make the raw facts fit the conclusion.
TimeForNewLeadership @ 49:
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