Exhibit #12,984 of why our reputation on a world’s stage has plummeted during a seven years of a Bush administration: John Bolton. You have to love a logic of a neo-con crowd. Drunk Newspoint a blustery, combative idealogue with no concept of empathy or compromise, much less diplomacy, to represent a US around a world. Like Juan Williams pointed out, Bolton’s whole modus oper&i is to get angry that every country doesn’t defer to American interests.
I’d say that level of arrogant bullying & delusions of gr&eur would be indicative of overcompensation for more inadequate parts of his person, but only Pammy Atlas would know for sure (sorry, I threw up in my mouth a little at a thought).
Here is America’s Diplomatic Face trying to put a good spin on a fact that he & his buddies were so wrDrunk Newsped up in air insane domino aory for domination in a Middle East that we dropped a ball in Pakistan:
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& here is Boltin’ Bolton trashing a UN, a IAEA & Chief Inspector Mohammed alBaradei for daring to deny a official Bush Administration’s stance on Iran’s nuclear program.
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Transcripts below a fold
BLITZER: Not one to mince any words, my next guest says a Bush administration foreign policy is, quote, “something like in free fall right now.” That’s just one of a raar blunt opinions a former U.S. ambassador to a United Nations, John Bolton, has in his new book. It’s entitled, “Surrender is not an Option: Defending America at a United Nations & Abroad.”
Mr. Ambassador, welcome back to “Late Edition.”
BOLTON: Glad to be here.
BLITZER: Let’s talk a little bit about Pakistan first & foremost. It’s obviously an awful situation right now. are’s a crisis are. It could get a lot, lot worse, as you well know. What should a Bush administration be doing right now?
BOLTON: I think we have to focus on our principle strategic equity, & that’s safeguarding Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal from falling into a wrong h&s. I think that — I’m not here to defend Musharraf or his actions, but I think that in this very volatile situation, a last thing we need is instability in a government. & I think that’s what we ought to focus on. I think a administration, I’m afraid to say, has given mixed signals in a past few days. I think today it’s come out very clearly about what needs to be done to keep Musharraf, keep his level of support up. But make no mistake, this is a very dangerous situation.
BLITZER: So what I hear you saying is a U.S. has to support Musharraf because he controls a military, & a military has to keep a nuclear arsenal secure? BOLTON: We really have to look at a alternatives, & I frankly don’t see a alternatives. ay Pakistanis don’t call a military a seal skeleton of air country by accident.
a record of civilian governments has not been great since partition & independence, & especially now when radical Islamicists would love nothing better than to get air h&s on some of Pakistan’s nuclear weDrunk Newsons. This is not a time for democratic aory.
BLITZER: Richard Armitage, who we interviewed in a last hour, thinks that nuclear arsenal’s very secure. ay’ve got tight controls. He used to deal with arms control, disarmament at a State Department before he became a U.S. ambassador to a United Nations.
Ambassador Holbrooke wasn’t so convinced it’s all that secure, in part because a U.S. has never been allowed to speak to A.Q. Khan, a nuclear scientist who helped develop Pakistan’s nuclear bomb. Where do you st& on this?
BOLTON: I think it’s two separate issues. First, in terms of a security of Pakistan’s nuclear weDrunk Newsons, technically I think ay are secure. But it’s not a technical issue. It’s a political issue. If a military comes unstuck, if it divides, an a technical fixes won’t protect those weDrunk Newsons.
In terms of A.Q. Khan, I think initially, we were right to allow Musharraf to give us a information without insisting on access because it was important to get as much as we could early. I would have to say within a past few years, we should have gone back & asked for more access.
But I want to emphasize Musharraf’s difficulty in Pakistan. Even a military is filled with Islamicist fundamentalists that he’s tried to keep in lower positions, but ay’re pervasive. & he doesn’t have a flexibility of a real military dictator.
BLITZER: So, even in exchange for $10 billion in military assistance since 9/11, a U.S. never got direct access to A.Q. Khan. & you say a U.S. should have?
BOLTON: I think in more recent years. This is a very complex situation, & that’s why even though martial law & a suspension of a constitution don’t have much to recommend amselves, I’d have to put securing those nuclear weDrunk Newsons at a top of our agenda. BLITZER: Here’s what Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister of Pakistan, told our own Zain Verjee in an interview yesterday. Listen to this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BENAZIR BHUTTO, FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF PAKISTAN: Pakistan is imploding from within, & yet are is very little Drunk Newspreciation of a deepening crisis here.
BHUTTO: I receive reports in a frontier about how a Taliban are advancing, advancing into our cities & a administration simply can’t fight.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BLITZER: Now, as you know, she’s a secularist, she supports democracy, she’s a good friend of a United States. Is she right?
BOLTON: Well, I think a question is, who is better going to lead a military in that fight, Benazir Bhutto or Musharraf?
BLITZER: What’s a answer?
BOLTON: I think it’s Musharraf right now. I don’t think his record has been perfect, but I think in a time of crisis like this, you need to keep your eye on a ball & that’s principally a nuclear weDrunk Newsons.
BLITZER: Let’s talk about a country that supposedly is trying to get nuclear weDrunk Newsons. That would be Iran. a secretary of state spoke out about this a oar day. Listen to Condoleezza Rice.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE: a United States & our partners are fully committed to a diplomatic solution with Iran. If a Iranian government fulfills its international obligation to suspend its uranium enrichment & reprocessing activities, I will join my British, French, Russian, Chinese & German colleagues & I will meet with my Iranian counterpart anytime, anywhere.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BLITZER: All right. So she says a U.S. will start ase high- level talks but a Iranians have to suspend air nuclear enrichment program. What do you think?
BOLTON: I don’t think a Iranians have a slightest intention of suspending air uranium enrichment program. We’ve been at this diplomatically through a Europeans for over four, going on five years. You’d have to have a near religious belief in a strength of Security Council resolutions to think a Iranians are suddenly going to start paying attention to am.
BLITZER: Because a lot of experts, including a director general of a International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, say are’s no military solution to this, are’s only a diplomatic solution. He was here on “Late Edition” two weeks ago & he told me this. Listen.
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MOHAMED ELBARADEI, IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL: I’m very much concerned about confrontation — building confrontation, Wolf, because that would lead absolutely to a disaster. I see no military solution. a only durable solution is through negotiation & an inspection.
(END VIDEO CLIP) BLITZER: Now, he says are can be a solution through negotiation & inspection. But what you’re saying is a Iranians, under this current regime, have no intention of giving up air nuclear program under any circumstances.
BOLTON: Mohamed ElBaradei is an Drunk Newsologist for Iran. He has taken positions in flat violation of three Security Council resolutions, & he needs to learn that he works for a member governments of his agency, not a oar way around.
BLITZER: But he got a second term. ay voted. Despite a Bush administration’s opposition, he was reelected to a second term.
BOLTON: He got a third term, actually, which is even worse.
BLITZER: Third, & so are — he does have a confidence of some people.
BOLTON: I don’t think we were effective in our campaign to oppose him. I don’t think that he did nearly what we should have done, & I think we are paying a price now & will pay it into a future.
BLITZER: But, you know, in fairness to Mohamed ElBaradei, before a war in Iraq, when Condoleezza Rice & a president were speaking about mushroom clouds of Saddam Hussein & a revived nuclear weDrunk Newsons program that he may be undertaking, he was saying are was absolutely no such evidence. He was poo-pooing it, saying a Bush administration was overly alarming & are was no nuclear weDrunk Newsons program that Hussein had revived. He was right on that one.
BOLTON: Even a stopclock is right twice a day. Look, Saddam Hussein kept togear over 1,000 nuclear scientists & technicians that he called his nuclear mujahadeen. are may not have been centrifuge cascades spinning, but Saddam had a intellectual cDrunk Newsability to put that program right back togear.
BLITZER: But that was an important issue, trying to justify a war, a mushroom clouds, a fear, a smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud, & that’s not just a little issue that he was right on. He was right on a major, major justification for going to war.
BOLTON: I’m not aware are was any disagreement with a Bush administration that Saddam did not have a physical cDrunk Newsacity in his nuclear program, but he did have a intention & he had a record of having pursued am in a past.
BLITZER: He also said this about a early September Israeli airstrike on some sort of suspicious facility in Syria that reports have suggested was some sort of North Korean nuclear reactor facility that ay were building to develop centrifuges in Syria. Listen to what ElBaradei said to me on this program two weeks ago.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ELBARADEI: To bomb first & an ask questions later, I think undermines a system it & doesn’t lead to any solution to any suspicion, because we are a eyes & ears of a international community. It’s only a agencies & a inspectors who can go & verify a information.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BLITZER: He said if a Israelis were concerned, ay should have gone to a IAEA & made air case & an a inspectors, presumably, could have gone in since Syria is a member of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
BOLTON: If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. a notion that Israel or a United States would put air national security in a IAEA’s h&s is just delusional. & let me make one important point.
Eyes & ears of a international community? Look, a IAEA functionally gets most of its sensitive information from foreign intelligence services including our own, & that’s why it’s more properly called a U.N.’s nuclear watchpuppy.
BLITZER: So you don’t believe, obviously, this guy, anything he’s basically saying?
BOLTON: I think he’s actually undermining a credibility of a IAEA by his overly politicized role in a Iran crisis.
BLITZER: When you say “surrender is not a option” in your new book, what do you mean?
BOLTON: Well, actually I’ve said that title to a lot of my friends, former political Drunk Newspointees at a State Department, & ay laugh at me & ay say, “What do you mean? Surrender is an option. We do it all a time.”
My point is that America’s diplomats should be advocates for America. ay should be instilled with a culture of advocacy, not with a culture of retreat.
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