Bolton Smears El Baradei As Iran Apologist, Says ‘Even A Stopped Clock Is Right Twice A Day’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/11/bolton-baradei-apologist/

Bolton Smears El Baradei As Iran Apologist, Says ‘Even A Stopped Clock Is Right Twice A Day’

Two weeks ago, Mohamed El Baradei, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on CNN that an attack on Iran would “lead absolutely to disaster.” He added that there is no evidence of a “concrete, active nuclear weapon program” going on inside Iran.

Today on CNN’s Late Edition, neconservative warhawk John Bolton responded by smearing ElBaradei as “an apologist for Iran” and said the United States is “paying the price” for not opposing him more vociferously.

When host Wolf Blizter reminded Bolton that El Baradei correctly warned prior the Iraq war that there was no evidence of a nuclear weapons program, Bolton derisively dismissed his warnings by claiming “even a stopped clock is right twice a day”:

BLITZER: But you know, in fairness to Mohamed ElBaradei, before the war in Iraq, when Condoleezza Rice and the president were speaking about mushroom clouds of Saddam Hussein and a revived nuclear weapons program that he may be undertaking, he was saying there was absolutely no such evidence. <…>

BOLTON: Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Watch it at link~

Bolton insisted that “there was never any real disagreement” between the IAEA and the Bush administration on Saddam’s “physical capacity for a nuclear weapon.”

In fact, in February 2002, El Baradei insisted that there was “no evidence of ongoing prohibited nuclear or nuclear related activities in Iraq.” Meanwhile, Bush asserted that Saddam was meeting with his “nuclear mujahedeen” and that the United States could not wait “for the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”

[ck4829]

1. Or maybe this "stopped clock" has more credibility than your administration.

[CatWoman]

2. ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2258842&mesg_id=2258842

[Spazito]

3. LOL, that "stopped clock" has been right twice as often as

Bolton, even by Bolton's standard.

[JDPriestly]

4. The "stopped clock" bit is an argument of last resort.

El Baradei has been to Iran. He has a team of experts working with him. What does Bolton have? Confessions obtained by torture? Bible verses? What is Bolton's EVIDENCE. Documents, testimony, evidence that would be admissible in a court and that would persuade a jury. The Bush administration does not know what EVIDENCE means. This is the faith-based foreign policy at work.

[MADem]

5. Well, Bolton is a pervert who used to frequent sex clubs in the swinging seventies.

And he despises everyone at the UN, from the Secretary General to the janitor, because they knew he was never "REAL." He never had that 'Advise and Consent' seal of approval from the Senate. He was the cowboy's little mercenary, and anything that came out of his mouth was not reflective of the will of the American people, because their legislators in the Senate never approved the guy.

And he resents that.

What a transparent little shit. He dishonors the memory of Captain Kangaroo with that facial hair, too!!! :rofl:

And on the brighter side, still, Bolton looks like absolute crap!!

Kudos to Blitzer for not backing down. Amazing--that guy used to be a 700 Club correspondent!

[Subdivisions]

6. Hence, my kneejerk, nonetheless heart-felt, response :

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2258663&mesg_id=2258663

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. “there was never any real disagreement” between the IAEA and the Bush administration

Nope. The Bush administration and El Baradei both knew that Saddam had no nuclear capacity, and both knew that Bush was lying about it.

Therefore, no disagreement at all.

[spanone]

8. STFU bolton

iraq deja vu

[Blackhatjack]

9. I think Bolton should be able to say anything he wants 24/7 as long as ....

HE DOES IT FROM BEHIND BARS!!!!

WE need to prosecute these NEOCONS, and Bolton would be a good start1

[Algorem]

10. chance to razz him on npr today

http://wamu.org/programs/dr/07/11/12.php#18088

Monday November 12, 2007

Join the show: 1-800-433-8850 ([e-mail]) or contact us

10:00 John Bolton: "Surrender Is Not An Option
Guests

John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, currently a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a commentator for Fox News Channel.

[Supersedeas]

11. if these people had their way??

[marmar]

12. Blitzer dredged up Silly Moustache Man from the sewer for comments?

That piece speaks volumes about both of them.