I thought i would post this again in light of the recent work of the Bush administration to give a pretext for military action against Iran.
It should be obvious that the Bush administration does not seek a diplomatic solution. But i would like to remind people again that we have a smoking gun that provides clear evidence that at least for some in the Bush administration, the goal of certain policies is NOT to get Iran to comply with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and other such agreements, but actually they are hopeful that Iran NOT comply, so they can use that for an excuse for further escalation.
Here is a partial transcript John Bolton, who was forced to leave his post as US Ambassador to the United Nations said to his devoted friends at AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee). This conversation took place last January- a year ago over the phone with some devoted aipac supporters, including one who recorded it and placed the recording on her blog (aipac asked that she remove it, and she did... a little late though).
Former Ambassador Bolton: Let me turn now to the question of Iran and what I think the situation is there. The Security Council just passed a resolution. The resolution that the Security Council passed at the end of last month imposing certain limited sanctions on Iran, obviously the product of a long effort based on Iran’s refusal to comply with the earlier Security Council resolution that gave them until August 31st to cease their uranium enrichment activities. I’d have to say because I’m a private citizen and therefore a free man again, and these are my personal views, now, that this sanctions resolution is very disappointing. It is not as tough as I would have liked to have seen it. In many respects the Russians did an outstanding job from their point of view in protecting Iran, in narrowing the scope of the sanctions, in limiting the effectiveness, I think, of many of the things that we wanted to try and do to prevent the Iranians from continuing to make progress on their nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
I think the Iranian reaction to the sanctions resolution has been very telling in that respect, although they’ve passed a resolution in parliament to re-evaluate their relation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, they have not rejected the sanctions resolution, they have not done anything more dramatic, such as withdrawing from the nonproliferation treaty, or throwing out inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which I actually hoped they would do – that that kind of reaction would produce a counter-reaction that actually would be more beneficial to us.
Complete Transcript of Bolton conversation with AIPAC supporters and also an audio link can be found here:
http://www.stopaipac.org/boltontape.htmIt might disturb you that while Bush et.al. may not have much political capitol anymore, the same cannot be said for political groups like AIPAC. Gotta make clear to our congrespeople that such groups do not speak for us!
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