DISQUS

StockBoySF · 5 months ago

Bolton: "...an effective public diplomacy campaign could be waged in the country to explain to Iranians that such an attack is directed against the regime, not against the Iranian people."

Didn't his gang try that once and it failed miserably. I guess he wants Obama to make the same mistake that Bush did with Iraq.

Rudi · 5 months ago

LOL The liberal media gives this clown a forum to push his agenda. A real "Fairness Doctrine" would send Bolton to Wassila, never to be heard from again.

Rudi · 5 months ago

Won't happen, Bolton is a chickenhawk and being this close to a real enemy would cause him to soil his diaper...

kathykattenburg · 5 months ago

Think of the fun he could have, gazing at Russia from Sarah Palin's house.

Father_Time · 5 months ago

Oh Good Friggen Grief!

Please tell John Bolton that Israel DOES NOT decide when the United States goes to war. If Israel wants to start a war against Iran then let them do what they wish without us. How-some-ever.....should Iran attack anybody with nuclear weapons, Iran must be destroyed with nuclear weapons. Sorry, but it is a ruthless world out there.

Don Quijote · 5 months ago

How-some-ever.....should Iran attack anybody with nuclear weapons, Iran must be destroyed with nuclear weapons. Sorry, but it is a ruthless world out there.

If Israel drops one of it's Nukes on Iran, is Iran then allowed to retaliate?

EEllis · 5 months ago

You know I didn't see one masturbatory reference in anything he said. Who was fantasizing again?

DaGoat · 5 months ago

You know I didn't see one masturbatory reference in anything he said. Who was fantasizing again?

That first sentence is a bit odd.

I don't know that Bolton is encouraging Israel so much as saying where he thinks things are going. I hope Israel sits on it's hands for now, an attack would just galvanize Iran.

GreenDreams · 5 months ago

Bolton is a complete idiot, as is anyone who still thinks this is a good idea. Some of Iran's key nuclear facilities are directly under universities in Tehran. Anyone who thinks Israel or the US should bomb a university full of young Iranians in the capital city of a major nation is completely, absolutely and totally nuts.

kathykattenburg · 5 months ago

Some of Iran's key nuclear facilities are directly under universities in Tehran.

I'm sure I can find it via Google, but if you happen to have a link to that info, I'd appreciate having it. Specific information like that is important to have.

GreenDreams · 5 months ago

A map of the sites is here:
http://lastingnews.com/maps/iran_nuclear_facili...
Two are in Tehran.

A more complete list, but as of 2004. Since inspectors are no longer there, we don't know what activities are conducted at which facilities.

TEHRAN NUCLEAR
RESEARCH CENTRE Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) Operating
Molybdenum, Iodine and Xenon Radioisotope Production Facility (MIX Facility) Constructed, but not operating
*Jabr Ibn Hayan Multipurpose Laboratories (JHL) Operating
*Waste Handling Facility (WHF) Operating
TEHRAN *Kalaye Electric Company Dismantled pilot enrichment facility; being converted to centrifuge enrichment R&D

From HERE
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/nu...

BTW, in terms of OUR vulnerability, regardless of which facilities were targeted, the Iranian response would likely be to close the Strait of Hormuz, possibly by sinking a tanker in it. No more Persian Gulf oil. Of course, Iran could still ship oil from the Arabian sea, but not the Saudis (could still ship via Red Sea), Qatar, UAE, Kuwait or Iraq. None of these countries would be happy with us to say the least. Not only could their economies be wrecked overnight, along with ours, but depending on the wind, we could send radiation poisoning to any of these countries, including our own troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

vworried · 5 months ago

What happens if Iran retaliates by bombing dimoina and breaks open the nuclear reactor? Israel should consider that and the effects it would have on Israel and the surrounding areas

kathykattenburg · 5 months ago

Thank you, GD. It's impossible for me to believe that John Bolton does not know where Iran's nuclear facilities are and what Iran would be likely to do if Israel bombed them. I'm sure he also knows what tends to happen when radiation from a nuclear blast, and wind patterns, interact. I am convinced he's not stupid -- just insane.

And of course knowing this only makes what he writes scarier.

DLS · 5 months ago

"heaving and gasping, ecstasy contorting his face ..."

More projection, Kathy. [sigh]