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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Getting Out of the Disastrous Iran "Deal"



September 21, 2017
The Honorable Donald J. Trump
President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC
Dear President Trump:
Winston Lewis Amselem
Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Ambassador Henry F. Cooper
Former Chief U.S. Negotiator for Defense and Space and SDI Director
Stephen Coughlin
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence analyst
Jack David
Hudson Institute Senior Fellow and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction and Negotiations Policy
Paula A. DeSutter
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance
Joseph E. diGenova
Former U.S. Attorney District of Columbia
Jessie Jane Duff
Gunnery Sergeant USMC (Ret.)
Senior Fellow London Center for Policy Research
Dr. Manfred Eimer
Fritz Ermarth
Retired CIA officer.  Former chairman of the National Intelligence Council
Douglas J. Feith
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Frederick Fleitz
Kevin D. Freeman, National Security Investment Counsel Institute
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (Acting)
Daniel J. Gallington
D. Scott George
Dr. William R. Graham
Larry K. Grundhauser
Philip Haney
George William Heiser II
Former Director for Arms Control, Reagan National Security Council Staff
Richard T. Higgins
Former Director for Strategic Planning, Trump National Security Council
Peter Huessy
Ambassador Eric M. Javits
Ambassador Robert G. Joseph
Morton A. Klein
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President
Dr. Charles M. Kupperman
Herbert I. London
President, London Center for Policy Research
Robert L. Luaces
Admiral James A. Lyons
Daniel Pollak
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry
George Rasley
Editor of ConservativeHQ and consultant
Major General Edward M. Reeder
U.S. Army (Ret.)
Ambassador C. Paul Robinson
Nina Rosenwald
Founder and President, Gatestone Institute
Mark Schneider
Tony Shaffer, LTC (ret)
Sarah Stern
Founder and President, Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET)
Kenneth R. Timmerman
President and CEO, Foundation for Democracy in Iran
Victoria Toensing
Former Chief Counsel, Senate Intelligence Committee
Adam Turner
J. Michael Waller
Founding Editorial Board Member, NATO Defence Strategic Communications
David Wurmser
Former Senior Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney

By Ambassador John Bolton
I. Background:
II. Campaign Plan Components
III. Execution Concepts and Tactics
1. Early, quiet consultations with key players
2. Prepare the documented strategic case
3. Greatly expanded diplomatic campaign post-announcement
4. Develop and execute Congressional and public diplomacy efforts
· Announce U.S. support for the democratic Iranian opposition;
· Expedite delivery of bunker-buster bombs;
· Actively organize opposition to Iranian political objectives in the U.N.
IV. Conclusion


  1. Right on..... Winston?
    I didn't know that was the W... :)

    - reader #1482

  2. Tell no one what we have said here....

  3. I have no view on the Iran biz. But I do know that the US government claimed that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons programme years after it had given it up.

    To what extent the US was simply mistaken, and to what extent consciously lying, I don't know. Maybe you know, Mr Mad?

    1. All of the world's intel agencies reported that Iraq had a nuke program underway. Saddam thought he did, too. Iraqi generals were convicted that the "other unit next door" to theirs had nuclear weapons. Saddam's sons would boast about their nuke weapons. President Bush and other leaders had to take that seriously.

    2. "President Bush and other leaders had to take that seriously." What, take seriously the Iraqi equivalent of "Hold my beer"? Wasn't it their job to assess intelligence critically rather than simply accept boasting as the truth?

    3. To dearieme,
      Say your neighbor tells you that he has guns and he is going to kill you if you make him mad. He has knifed other people in the past.

      His children talk about the guns.

      How do you know he is falsely boasting about the guns, if you can't search his house? Would you call the police and forcibly do the search?

    4. All of the intel agencies--Britain's included--concluded that Saddam had an active nuke program. President Clinton had concluded the same thing. I, personally, saw a great deal of that intel. It was pretty convincing. Given his past use of WMD, and his boasts of using them again, Western leaders were not left with much in the way of options.

    5. No nuke program? Then why did he buy all that yellow cake? (With "oil for food money, no less) IIRC, they sent it to Canada. (Go figure!) But, dearie me, we still love you, and your comments..I just have mae doots about that one.


    6. The story about buying uranium from (was it?) Gabon was fake, all based on a forgery.

      "Western leaders were not left with much in the way of options." The persuasive mound of evidence wasn't good enough to persuade France, or Germany, or a heap of other countries, and they turned out to be quite right.

      "if you can't search his house?" is just daft: it was searched.

    7. To dearieme,
      "is just daft: it was searched."

      Attempting to demean me doesn't further your argument. What is your information that Iran was searched and found clean of nuclear weapons programs? Please give a link and point out the section.

    8. Iran? We're discussing Iraq.

    9. The "proof" that the purchase was fake was from Valery Plame's husband, not such solid evidence, IMHO.


    10. 500 metric tons of yelowcake uranium was shipped from Iraq stockpiles to Canada by the U.s. in mid 2008 (Google it). Super spy Valarie Plame's "misdirection" was because she mistakenly thought the subject was Duncan Hines mix.

    11. To dearieme,
      Yes Iraq. Sorry for the slip. So...

    12. And here I thought the 500 metric tons was to fill the Clinton cofferes.
      Wasn't there also 200 tons found IN Iraq after invaded?

  4. If Trump were smart he would install the above signatories as the administration of the State Department and give them a mandate to fire ten employees each!

    Winston is a fine name, ahem, although I would probably go by Lewis if it were me.

    1. Ssssssssssh. Nobody is supposed to know . . .

    2. My grand father, Jefferson Davis Adams, always went by JD, so that, until someone found his birth certificate a couple of years ago, they just put it down to poverty, couldn't afford names, had to go with only the initials.

      In the South, it is common for the third generation to be given a name, for dynastic reasons, that has become unfashionable at best. Those third generation boys? They are all known as "Trey"

    3. We all know now Winston.
      Sniggers uncontrollably.
      Hey, it coulda been "Cedric" or even "Homer"
      You got off lightly.
      Coulda been "Sue"

  5. The pity is we can't ask for a refund of the money too! We will know just how good this proposal is when we see how much CNN hates it.

  6. Diplomad

    If Breitbart and other sources are to be believed, General Kelly now controls every piece of info which reaches Trump and Bolton is persona non grata. I can't imagine McMaster wants this input to influence Trump. Will this get to Trump, and how? "Issuing" a letter means what - publishing it? Where was it published that Trump will see it? If sent to him, was it actually delivered to him? And shouldn't there be someone face to face to walk him through the executive summary version, which I guess is the cover letter.

    Where does Tillerson stand on Iran? I've never been clear on that.

    Has anyone ever tried to explain an acceptable rationale for delivering pallets of cash? (Making untraceable payments to terrorists doesn't count.)

  7. I thought that this "deal" with Iran was not approved by Congress as a treaty, or even a resolution. Also, it wasn't signed by Iran's president or even approved by Iran's congress as a resolution.

    We only have their implicit agreement from their action to collect a payment of $150 billion, presented in CASH! They took the money, so supposedly they "agree".

    Obama and Kerry acted as unconstitutional kings in creating this "agreement". Why isn't Obama prosecutable for dispensing huge funds to a foreign power, and a hostile one, without congressional approval?

    This lack of prosecution, or even investigation, of Obama and his staff (for other actions), tells me that our entire government is a corrupt cabal. Enough of the Congress is complicit that there is hardly a peep.

    Almost all of them are there to carve up the roast, and We the People are the roast.

    1. and not just cash... foreign currency delivered by cargo plane.
      incredible.... it's like a story out of a tin pot dictatorship... nobody would've believed the US would've been involved in such a thing, at least not on an above-board basis.
      Of course... Obama's primary adviser bragged about duping the country into it, and has gone back to writing fantasy novels.

      - reader #1482

    2. Andrew--You're correct. As I noted in my posts on this "deal" from the start, it was never signed, never presented to Congress, and the Iranians made clear that they interpreted it differently from what Obama/Kerry were saying. It is legally non-binding and the Iranians have gotten what they wanted, to wit, lots of money, trade, investment, and a tacit blessing of their illegal nuke program.

  8. Great letter...Why aren't you and the signatories working for the Trump Administration? Why must jobs go to "never Trumpers?" Explain, please...(& Shanah Tovah!)

  9. We, citizens, need to know what the side agreements were that were so damn secret and kept from us.

  10. Diplomad

    I asked a reasonable question about Trump seeing the message to him. I gave the effort the courtesy of thinking it worthy of Trump seeing and understanding. Why does my question as to whether he will not deserve an answer? I am not asking for specifics about who will smuggle it into the WH in their briefcase, but some assurance that the Breitbart and other reports are wrong and the work of Bolton and others supposedly banished still reach Trump.

    1. All good questions. I don't have good answers. The folks behind the letter have given a lot of publicity and Amb. Bolton has been on Fox talking about it.

    2. Diplomad

      Thank you. I hope Bolton has some indirect access - for example, to Pence or Miller. But I realize it was unfair for me to ask you to say. I guess I am more interested in this concept floated by Breitbart and others that Kelly can control not only who sees Trump but which info he sees. The latter seems preposterous to me, but it is being seriously reported.

  11. This might give you (&) some added ammunition Diplomad Sir:



  12. OT, but...

    A lady named Shrillary Shroooo
    Was looking for something to do.
    She blames me for her loss,
    Plus you and yours, boss,
    And next, animals in the zoo!

    1. Aye.. maybe the last line: "hope she tries 2020 too!"

      - reader #1482

    2. She's basically falling apart physically and mentally. I really doubt she will be around in 2020. If she is, she'll be in care at one of her houses that she got from ill gotten gains.

  13. "...our foreign policy elite is a pack of hypocritical, yellow-bellied, two-faced, fork-tongued, lying polecats who wouldn't acknowledge the truth if it were tattooed on their ophidian foreheads."
    - David Goldman https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2017/09/25/washingtons-despicable-hypocrisy-towards-kurds/