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Bush Official : "He Doesn't Represent The US Government...We Very Much Disagree With Him" YOUR
NEW REALITY Professional War On Iran cheerleader, and former US ambassador, John Bolton, has been abandoned by the US State Department over his repeated claims that the United States is planning to launch air strikes on Iran's nuclear energy facilities and research centres. In an interview on Australian television on Wednesday night, Undersecretary of State, Nicholas Burns, was questioned about Bolton acting as a representative of the US government in preparing Americans, and the world, for air strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran that Bolton has repeatedly claimed were where Iran was developing clandestine nuclear weapons. In an interview on Australia's Lateline program in September, John Bolton said :
To an Australian audience, it was clear Bolton was talking as an American well-placed to know the inside track of the US government's stance on Iran, and he made no effort to point out that his claims and beliefs were not representative of the Bush administration. On Wednesday night, in an interview on the same program, Nicholas Burns was clearly aware of the comments by Bolton from September, and he moved quickly to distance his administration from the Attack Iran Now stance promoted by Bolton, and from Bolton himself :
Burns tried to calmly spin the stunning revelations that Iran does not have, and is not currently pursuing, a nuclear weapons program in the National Intelligence Estimate made public on Monday. Burns is now fully pushing the line of his boss, Condoleezza Rice, that diplomacy is the only line the US government is currently pursuing on Iran :
Iran has offered to sit down with the US for talks a number of times in 2007, but President Bush has refused such offers, claiming that Iran has to first abandon its nuclear weapons programs. Programs we now know do not actually exist. Think Progress takes an extended look at the farcical claims now being made by John Bolton, that there is a conspiracy within the entire US intelligence community against NeoCons like him, and that some 16 US intelligence agencies are "wrong" in their assessment that Iran does not have nuclear weapons, and are not currently pursuing nuclear weapons. Once again, NeoCons like Bolton have been exposed as serial liars, obsessed with their mission of getting President Bush to strike Iran before he leaves the White House in January, 2009. The sudden, and unexpected, release of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear energy programs should be viewed as a declaration of war on the NeoCons' fading credibility, and an extremely public attempt to destroy what remains of their power, and influence, in Washington today.
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