Israel 'will attack Iran' before new US president sworn in, John Bolton predicts

"John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, has predicted that Israel could attack Iran after the November presidential election but before George W Bush's successor is sworn in."

I noticed that absent from Mr. Bolton's analysis is Iran's certain retaliation...

Seven Days in December?

"Just because the facts on which he based his white-hot rhetoric about Iran possibly sparking World War III have been debunked, W. said with his usual twisted logic, why should his policy change?"

Okay, let's see ~

1. A major "re-direction" in the intelligence on Iran.

2. Israel was caught unawares of (a) the recent US sponsored UN resolution on the Mid-East Peace process, which they later objected to and (b) the "new" intelligence on Iran.

Might the differences in the NIEs issued previously on Iraq and Iran, and the more recent one on Iran be because the Israelis and the Zio-cons were kept OUT of the loop this time around?

Bolton Calls For Congressional Witch-Hunt Into Anti-Bush ‘People In The Intelligence Community’

"Yesterday’s National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) concluded that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, pouring cold water on neoconservative calls for bombing Iran. Like his ideological kin Norman Podhoretz, former U.N. ambassador and Iran war hawk John Bolton has been attempting to slander the U.S. intelligence community’s collective judgments."