ambassador john bolton he's been featured several times on this program in the past for his ridiculous comments and he's back on another one this time relating to each act he's one of the few public figures who've actually spoken out in favor of a barak's regime and he was on sean hannity's radio program talking about the ripple effect of a new democratic government take over in egypt so somehow the man who loves to push the idea of bombing iran has tied his mission into egypt revolts tell my not surprised just take a listen to this. do you think that the israelis are going to have the. strike it is going to be they are going to have to take action in other words the world don't seem to be supporting them as you pointed out a birthday. you know grand cover for the iranians for all those years that he was guilty. and i just don't think the israelis have much longer to wait i mean either we're going to live in a world with a nuclear iran and a threat to their very existence or they're going to have to act in fairly short order and i think that. if you get all that basically bolton thinks

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. >> the unrest in the middle east will give a boost to the president bid of john bolton. >> and wisconsin governor walker with surge to the front ranks of republican hopefuls for 2012. >> right on! >> i predict the bush name will not be hurtful in 2012, jeb. it will be a plus. happy president's day! bye-bye! vogeico, committed to providing service to its auto insurance customers for over 70 years. more information on auto insurance at geico.com or 1-800-947-auto any time of the day or night.

. >> the unrest in the middle east will give a boost to the president bid of john bolton. >> and wisconsin governor walker with surge to the front ranks of republican hopefuls for 2012. >> right on! >> i predict the bush name will not be hurtful in 2012, jeb. it will be a plus. happy president's day! bye-bye! vogeico, committed to providing service to its auto insurance customers for over 70 years. more information on auto insurance at geico.com or 1-800-947-auto any time of the day or night. gwen: everybodys up in arms from the streets of madison, wisconsin to the streets of manama, bahrain. the debate over dollars and democracy, tonight, on "washington week." >> what my budget does is to put forward some tough choices. >> when we say we're going to cut spending, read my lips, we're going to cut spending. >> we're terribly disappointed that speaker boehner can't control the votes in his caucus to prevent a shutdown of government. gwen: tough choices and tough talk everywhere when it comes to the budget, will it become cooperation, or combat? >> i guess i would say debt on arrival, d-e-b-t

health care where to go see now still to come on tonight's program our tool time segment calls out john bolton for fear mongering using egypt to fearmonger over wrong yet again and should the u.s. be ruled with a dictatorship speak the man who thinks of that's the way of the future for america . hello again this is r.c. the headlines. ok ok ok let me love your just a. huge crowds in cairo call for president hosni mubarak to quit and denounce the thirty years of martial law the embattled egyptian leader has yielded to pressure after a week to widespread unrest and was seek re-election september but protesters want him out of much sooner. russia remembers its first post soviet president eighty years after his by boris yeltsin drove huge challenges of the fall of the communism but his legacy is a divisive one in the country today. and a russian diplomat has been ordered out of line and after accusations moskos intelligence services made him take irish close calls for spying they irish department of foreign affairs says six irish nationals identities were used to create false documents for russian

are in dispute even arguably are repeal of don't ask don't tell which let's be honest dick cheney john bolton pat toomey big pillars of the conservative movement are totally in agreement with go proud on that and when you're looking at the issue of the federal marriage amendment you know there's lots of differing opinion on that subject within the republican party for lots of different reasons one of the key ones being federalism and ron paul himself who won the presidential straw poll last year has exactly the same stance on the federal marriage amendment as what is it and it is and here is that it's also worth noting though that ron paul is also a christian conservative and understood to be one rising very rapidly pro pro-life conservative republican and that that means something to us actually we have. our correspondent spoke with congressman ron paul earlier about some of these differences between conservatives libertarians big government conservatives as they call them let's take a look at. some people who call themselves conservatives or big government conservatives so my opposition to

you know, but president bush had other forces at him like john bolton and those who wanted to wind up the u.n. so i think we actually got quite a long wait in this given circumstances. >> the fact is we were aware of the united states not wanting you into have a lead role. you mean being reluctant to take lead role. and when i asked stephen patterson why did we not have a plan b because of the assumption of the united nations would have a lead role, that's what our planning was based on, why do we not have a plan b? and he said to be that the plan b was the u.s.a. sorting it out. i mean, if they did united nations have role the u.s. would sort itself out. now, in the circumstances, shall we not have actually sought more insight as to what the u.s. was planning? she would not have represented with a blueprint? >> well, the only plan b was in the absence of the central role for u.n. was a central role for the occupiers were the u.s. and u.k., those were the alternatives. there were lots and lots of discussion with the united states system. edward chaplin as well as the rest of us going

we hear so many things such as john bolton said this would be the perfect time for israel to attack iran because we don't know if their borders are going to be secure. so i think it's not the time to encouraging other wars or invading other nations but the people if they have the democratic election are we going to treat them like the gaza strip if the person who we don't want to win, wins? this is not about if we are going to try to exert our military power on them or anything. our money has been able to keep them quiet for 30 years, the next one if they don't take our payout to act as a security flinge that border with israel, we could be in trouble. and all these other countries are doing the same. all of our -- are getting overthrown. host: donald rums if he would's book his autobiography comes out. "known and unknown" quickly here are three takes from three different papers. in the book rums if he would recalls bush's early iraq focus. bush invited rums if he would to meet with him alone in the oval office. the president leaned back in his leather chair and ordered a review and revi

and in any event, with great respect to the idea -- this was straight from john bolton of a nuclear strike on iran was and remains nuts. and i thought about the use of that term very carefully on the way to the studio. because i just thought i need to -- politician speak i needed to make it clear that i disagreed with it. >> right. you talked about enhanced containment. in may of 2002, we finally succeeded in getting -- and we led this process -- a smart sanctions resolution. but it's one which mr. barrows argued had no chance of working because the provisions originally anticipated the for quite a monitoring of the iraq's borders had been dropped before the resolution was adopted. if the resolution wasn't going to work because it didn't have the border monitoring, why did we go ahead with it? why didn't we just pull it? >> because -- i'm not trying to become [inaudible] for a second. it's a good question and indeed something i thought about a lot. first of all, in may of 2002 we didn't know if it were going to happen. the future was full of -- to be trite, full of uncertainties. i think i

people like john bolton talking about how you shouldn't keep international agreements because in this world there's no impartial arbiter to enforce them otherwise they are not worth the paper they're written on. it ignores the fact that we have not lost historic evidence that the existence of norms modifies people's behavior. and that doesn't mean he's going to follow the norms completely god forbid but it does, in fact, modify international states' behaviors as well and the approach is strictly as we were talking about, the state to state. it's not about republic to republic. i mean, to me -- osama and i talked about this many times, and many, many times i talked about it with my dear friend and former colleague talking about in the '90s and the early 2000's there's no two-state solution between the palestinian and the israeli on a purely intellectual level and one could argue there's a two-republic solution but there is no two-state solution and one of the reasons that the negotiations fail all the time is that they're trying to achieve something that's intellectual impossible. and

bolton and said what do i hear hear? is that we are going to bahman hears this case and it isn't going to work. both said that's what he thinks. i could see john mckeown leaning over and saying who the is this guy? but i somehow survived it. we went ahead with bombing and the head of the red team played his cards very well. curtis lemay's scenario was that once we started on the north vietnam, north vietnam would try to retaliate by bombing saigon, that they did not have sufficient aircraft to do that well, so they would call on the chinese allies and that the chinese with applied them, pilots and aircraft to bomb saigon. this would enable lemay to retaliate against china and take out its developing nuclear capacity. well, the wargame was a disaster. the red team retaliated in a very astute way. it did not retaliate militarily. a retaliated psychologically. and the impact of bombing not only were minimally in terms of the military context, but it worked very badly in terms of the world opinion of what we were doing. and curtis lemay was furious at the final session and he leaned forward and yelled at general bob wheeler who had been head of th