The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Sy Hersh's Iran Fantasies

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Seymour Hersh has an article in the current New Yorker claiming that the Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons. Politico reports that, according to a senior official, "the article garnered 'a collective eye roll' from the White House."

This brings to mind a classic exchange at a 2006 subcommittee hearing where Dennis Kucinich asked John Bolton about an article in which Hersh claimed that US Marines were operating inside Iran. Bolton said he hadn't read Hersh's piece and had no intention of reading it. "If I gave you this article right now, walked it over," Kucinich asked, "would you look at it?"

"I don't think so, honestly, Congressman," replied Bolton, "because I don't have time to read much fiction."

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Red Phillips| 6.1.11 @ 4:52PM

"I don't think so, honestly, Congressman," replied Bolton, "because I don't have time to read much fiction."

So alarmist fearmonger Bolton has been a source of truth?

J.C.Eaton| 6.1.11 @ 5:27PM

Thank you RP, for your daily banality.

Red Phillips| 6.1.11 @ 9:22PM

Yeah, because the interventionists alarmist fearmongers have been so all over the truth since 9/11. Their judgment can surely be trusted.

Ken (Old Texican)| 6.1.11 @ 5:46PM

Mr. Bolton,
I hope you will read my "fiction". You sir are featured in it.
Check out my new web blog site:
www.txbooks.blogspot.com

Occam's Tool| 6.1.11 @ 8:20PM

Kucinich=Paul.

Clint| 6.1.11 @ 8:32PM

Occam's Tool = Israel Firster Fanatic Neo-Chickenhawk Coward Traitor Bastard.

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