Trump's new hawkish golden boy was pushing for war with Iran at least since 2003 through lies, dirty tricks, fabricated facts and propaganda
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Being a
member of the neocon sociopathic cabal, responsible for endless chaos
and destruction around the world, Trump's new national security
adviser, John Bolton, is expected to push for more wars and
destruction. Speaking to Sharmini Peries and the Real News, investigative journalist, Gareth Porter, reveals
the details of a Bolton's long record on pushing for war with Iran,
even right after the US disastrous invasion in Iraq!
Porter
explains:
What is
not really known well about John Bolton is that when he was
undersecretary of state from 2003-2005 in the Bush administration, he
was involved very deeply with Dick Cheney in carrying out a policy
that was aimed at positioning the United States for a war against
Iran that Dick Cheney was clearly very much not just in favor of, but
it was really his idea in the first place. Dick Cheney was surrounded
by people who were violently anti-Iran, and he was all on board for
eventually going to war with Iran once the invasion and occupation of
Iraq had been successful. So, John Bolton's role as undersecretary
was largely to carry out a policy toward Iran and its nuclear program
that would make it possible for the United States to be in a position
politically and diplomatically to carry out the war that Dick Cheney
wanted.
What
Bolton did was to have a strategy that would move the Iranian file
out of the IAEA and into the UN Security Council, where the United
States had the power along with its European allies as long as it
could bring them into line, to essentially accuse Iran of having a
covert nuclear weapons program, which is what the IAEA at that point
in 2003-2004 was unwilling to do. And so, Bolton was all about coming
up with a scheme that would allow him to move the file to the UN
Security Council.
What
he did was to come up with a mysterious set of aerial photographs of
a key military base in Iran where they were carrying out testing of
conventional weapons. And various sites within that military
reservation were depicted in these aerial photographs. Bolton went
public through leaks to the networks, ABC in particular, and turning
them over to the IAEA, claiming that these were pictures that showed
that the Iranians were carrying out nuclear weapons-related testing
in this military reservation. What the pictures actually showed - and
they were on the ABC network and they were on the Internet later on,
so, we've had an opportunity to see all these pictures - all they
showed was places like bunkers which were used to test ordinary,
conventional bombs.
But
Bolton tried to turn this into an issue of the IAEA needs to go into
this military reservation and investigate. Obviously, what he was
hoping was that the Iranians would say no, you can't come into our
very sensitive testing area and just muck around and look for
yourself. Instead, the Iranians invited the IAEA to come in twice,
not just once but twice, and looked at ten different sites of their
own choice. And they, of course, found nothing. So Bolton's
strategy was frustrated in 2003-2004.
But that
was the first phase of what he tried to do.
The
second phase, which is much more murky, was a phase that had to do
with the Israeli contribution to the effort to accuse Iran of having
a secret nuclear weapons program. And that took the form of leaking a
set of documents, a whole cache of documents that were supposedly
from this covert Iranian nuclear weapons research program. The
documents which later on recalled, the laptop documents, were
supposedly from the laptop computer of one of the Iranian
participants in this program. And they supposedly fell into the hands
of Western intelligence because this guy, his computer was stolen or
fell into the hands of somebody else, and were turned over to Western
intelligence.
But I
found out from a former senior official of the German Foreign Office,
who had been brought in by high officials of the German foreign
intelligence agency, the Bundensachrichtendiest, that, they knew all
about these documents, that they were upset that the US government
was making a public issue of these documents as though it were
evidence of an Iranian secret nuclear weapons program, because they
had been given those documents by one of their sometime sources. An
Iranian, obviously, who they didn't trust, because they knew that
this person was a member of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, the Iranian
anti-regime armed organization which had been used by the Saddam
Hussein regime to make war against Iran, and then was used by Israel
to make public information that the Israelis did not want associated
with themselves.
So,
there is a string of influence here which ties these very
questionable documents which I reveal in my book to be fakes to the
Mossad. Now, this goes back to the Bolton scheme because in 2003 and
2004 Bolton was taking unannounced trips to Israel which were not
approved by the State Department's Regional Bureau, as is normally
the case, and meeting with the head of Mossad, Meir Dagan, where no
one was there to take notes, and to send a report on what was
discussed back to the State Department. So, it was a secret between
Bolton and Mossad.
Furthermore,
Mossad created a new organization that was not made public - but it
was revealed by two American journalists later on - which had the job
of circulating information to the news media and to governments about
the Iranian nuclear program.
Bolton
just can't stop lying and pushing for war with Iran. Even after all
his previous attempts failed, after fifteen years he is still pushing
for war with Iran and North Korea! He is in a state of constant
denial, still believing that the invasion in Iraq was a right
decision! Even when ultra conservative Fox news goes against his
arguments, he won't show a single sign of retreat against his
warmongering positions. Just watch:
Recall
that, Bolton is a member of the Council on Foreign relations, a
foreign policy think tank. Dick Cheney is a member of the council and
Hillary Clinton has lauded it for its leadership, which is guided by
a litany of corporations, including Lockheed Martin, Goldman Sachs,
JP Morgan Chase & Co., and Exxon Mobil Corporation.
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