@@ Ambassador Bolton's agenda @@
Arash
June 27, 2005
Ambassador Bolton's Agenda
Dr. James Gordon Prather
Nuclear weapons physicist
Nuclear bomb tester at Lawrence Livermore
Technical director of nuclear bomb testings at Sandia
Chief scientist of the U.S. Army
U.S. Navy veteran
It appears that President Bush is determined to make John Bolton
(http://www.stopbolton.org) our next ambassador to the United Nations.
Why?
Well, ever since the Soviet Union disintegrated, the UN and its enforcement agency – the
Security Council – have more often than not thwarted what our neo-crazies wanted to do.
The refusal of the Security Council to sanction the use of force against Iraq in 2003 was
the last straw.
Shortly after Bush defied the Security Council and invaded Iraq anyway, he had Bolton
establish the Proliferation Security Initiative, a U.S.-controlled "coalition," willing to
act – as in Iraq – even in defiance of the Security Council, the UN Charter, and
international law generally.
According to Bolton, the PSI (http://www.state.gov/t/np/rls/other/34726.htm) had to be
established because "proliferators and those facilitating the procurement of deadly
capabilities are circumventing existing laws, treaties, and controls against WMD
proliferation".
Here are excerpts from Bolton's June 5, 2003, explication of the PSI's necessity before
the House International Relations Committee:
"We aim ultimately not just to prevent the spread of WMD, but also to eliminate or
'roll back' such weapons from rogue states and terrorist groups that already possess them
or are close to doing so. While we stress peaceful and diplomatic solutions to the
proliferation threat, as President Bush has said repeatedly, we rule out no options..
"While we pursue diplomatic dialogue wherever possible, the United States and its
allies must be willing to employ more robust techniques, such as (1) economic sanctions;
(2) interdiction and seizure; and (3) as the case of Iraq demonstrates, preemptive
military force where required.
"The hard lessons learned by Iraq must resonate with other proliferating countries.
Those countries should heed that thwarting international obligations and standards – by
seeking weapons of mass destruction – is not in their national interests and will not be
tolerated by the international community.
"We now know that Iran is developing a uranium mine, a uranium conversion facility, a
massive uranium enrichment facility designed to house tens of thousands of centrifuges,
and a heavy-water production plant. This costly infrastructure would support the
production of both highly enriched uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons. While Iran
claims that its nuclear program is peaceful and transparent, we are convinced it is
otherwise.
"The danger that Iran poses with its clandestine nuclear weapons program is
compounded by Iran's pursuit of an advanced and self-sufficient chemical weapons
infrastructure, its active quest for biological warfare capabilities, and its long-range
ballistic missile program.
"Despite being a party to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), it is widely known
that Iran has stockpiled blister, blood, and choking CW agents, and possesses the bombs
and artillery shells to deliver them.
"It continues to seek chemicals, production technology, training, and expertise from
Chinese entities that could further Tehran's efforts at achieving an indigenous capability
to produce nerve agents, which Iran previously has manufactured.
"The United States also believes that Iran probably has produced BW agents and likely
maintains an offensive BW program, in violation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons
Convention (BWC), to which it is party.
"Foreign dual-use biotechnical materials, equipment, and expertise – primarily, but
not exclusively, from Russia – continue to feature prominently in Iran's procurement
efforts.
"Furthermore, ballistic missile-related cooperation from entities in the former
Soviet Union, North Korea, and China over the years has helped Iran move toward its goal
of becoming self-sufficient in the production of ballistic missiles".
Well, there you have it. Bolton had decided two years ago that Iran had willfully
violated – with impunity – the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the CWC, and
the BWC. Worse, China, Russia, and North Korea had facilitated those violations.
What to do? Well, that's where the PSI comes in.
"Vigorous implementation of our sanctions policy is a key part of our Iran
nonproliferation effort. We have sanctioned entities in China and Moldova for assistance
to the Iranian missile program, as well as entities in Iran itself.
"We cannot let Iran, a leading sponsor of international terrorism, acquire the most
destructive weapons and the means to deliver them to Europe, most of central Asia, and the
Middle East – or further."
So when Bolton becomes our next UN ambassador, look for him to demand that the Security
Council apply "robust techniques" – including (1) economic sanctions; (2) interdiction and
seizure; and (3) preemptive military force – to "proliferators" (such as Iran) and to
those "facilitating the procurement of deadly capabilities" (such as Russia and China).
And if the Security Council rejects Bolton's demands? Stay tuned.
Dr. Prather's radio interviews
May 7, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather4.mp3
April 9, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather3.mp3
February 5, 2005
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather2.mp3
December 4, 2004
http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/prather.mp3
February 16, 2005
Part 1
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-02-16-Charles-04.mp3
Part 2
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/archive/media/2005-02-16-Charles-05.mp3
* Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing official for national
security-related technical matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy Research and
Development Administration, the Department of Energy, the Office of the Secretary of
Defense and the Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as legislative assistant
for national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-Okla. -- ranking member of the
Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate Energy Committee and Appropriations
Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier worked as a nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (http://www.llnl.gov) in California and Sandia National
Laboratory (http://www.sandia.gov) in New Mexico.
http://www.antiwar.com/prather