John Bolton's Default Setting: When In Doubt, Bomb Iran [View all]

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February 29, 2012 9:05 pm ET — 9 Comments

Fox News contributor and former Bush administration official John Bolton has used Fox News and print media to relentlessly push for first-strike military interventions in Iran. His advocacy of force is only the latest attempt by Bolton to push for the United States to engage in military operations against various countries around the world.

Bolton Has Tirelessly Advocated Military Strikes On Iran For Years

Bolton In February 2012: "I Don't Think It's In Our Interest To Stay Out" Of A War Between Israel And Iran. From the February 3 edition of Fox News' America Live:

BOLTON: Well, I don't think we will be able to stay out, and I don't think it's in our interest to stay out. Look, the use of military force against the Iranian program is a decidedly unattractive option, there's no doubt about it. It's risky, it has potentially significant consequences. But the choice that we face is not between life as it is today compared to life after an Israeli military strike. It's life after that strike, compared to an Iran with nuclear weapons.

So if you don't like Iran as the central banker of international terrorism, prepared to conduct terrorist operations on American soil, threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, engaging in terrorist activity worldwide, imagine how much worse it gets once they get nuclear weapons. {Fox News, America Live, 2/3/12, via Media Matters}