Video: Someone Tries Citizen Arrest of John Bolton
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Video (8min 57sec): Someone Tries Citizen Arrest of John Bolton. Democracy Now's Amy Goodman interviews George Monbiot in Wales. Alleging War Crimes, British Activist, Writer George Monbiot attempts citizen's arrest on former UN Ambassador John Bolton. This is part of a much larger plan to make citizens arrests of dozens of alleged war criminals for their roles in the Iraq War.
John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, escaped a citizen's arrest Wednesday night as he addressed an audience in Britain. Amy Goodman speaks to George Monbiot, the British activist and columnist who tried to arrest Bolton. Bolton is viewed as a war criminal for his role in helping to initiate the US invasion of Iraq.
"John Bolton has the position that any and every country of which he disagrees should be attacked and then we work out the justification for that attack later.
"He was one of the signatories of the letter sent by the Project for a New American Century to Bill Clinton in 1998 saying that we saying that we should attack Iraq saying that we should overthrow Saddam Hussein. He had one justification then. He had a different justification in 2003. He has a different justification today. It's very clear that with Bolton, as with Bush, as with Cheney, as with Rumsfeld, the urge to go to war came first and the justification came second..."
