There's something about Johnny

John Bolton: US should bomb Iranian camps

By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent

Last Updated: 3:35PM BST 06/05/2008

John Bolton, America's ex-ambassador to the United Nations, has called for US air strikes on Iranian camps where insurgents are trained for war in Iraq

No John, really, how do you feel about it? Don't hold back, now.

Mr Bolton said that striking Iran would

represent a major step towards victory in Iraq. While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile Iranian response harming American's overseas interests existed, he said the damage inflicted by Tehran would be "far higher" if Washington took no action.

"This is a case where the use of military force against a training camp to show the Iranians we're not going to tolerate this is really the most prudent thing to do," he said. "Then the ball would be in Iran's court to draw the appropriate lesson to stop harming our troops."

Mr Bolton, an influential former member of President George W Bush's inner circle, dismissed as "dead wrong" reported British intelligence conclusions that the US military had overstated the support that Iran was providing to Iraqi fighters.

Always ready to dance or talk. Little Johnny Bolton.

And just as no less than the NYT reported today....

Colonel Donald Bacon, a spokesman for the coalition in Baghdad, said captured fighters had told interrogators that thousands of Iraqi fighters were undergoing training in the Islamic Republic.

The main camp is located near the town of Jalil Azad, near Tehran, according to coalition officials.

The capture of Qais Khazali, a major figure in the Shia insurgency alongside Ali Mussa Daqduq, a senior Lebanese Hizbollah guerilla, last year yielded a treasure trove of information on Hizbollah's activities in Iraq.

It amazing they just don't wait until a dem is elected. But they just can help being what they are. Arrogant, racist, zealots eager to kill and to die for their version of god.