Buchanek, and I want to give you a sit-rep as to what's happening in Iran and our aircraft carrier, the Abraham Lincoln.
I'm very much concerned that we could be precipitating a major war, not a low-intensity conflict or LIC because John Bolton and Pompeo, as I said, are both disorganized, incompetent, and quite corrupt in terms of their past history.
Let me explain what I mean.
It was Bolton who wanted to have the war in Iraq, and that's what he proposed.
Of course, Bolton wasn't smart enough to realize that when we took apart Iraq and we invaded it over 12 years, and between Iraq and Afghanistan we lost 60,000 American soldiers wounded and killed, that in fact what would be the most predominant power was Iran.
And this is Bolton's Key to our success.
He created the strength of Iran.
And Iran now patrols the Straits of Hormuz, a very narrow slip of water, where 40% of all the oil transits from the Persian Gulf out into the Straits of Hormuz and then to the rest of the world.
There, the Iran Revolutionary Guard under Soleimani will confront our carrier, and we hope that there will not be conflict.
If there is a conflict, it has to be conflicted very quickly by Trump, who says he does not want a war.
Now, why am I concerned?
Number one, not as Bolton, a coward, and never served our country and was a draft dodger after encouraging us to go to war.
In Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, but also Bolton's judgment is disastrous.
He was the one who supported MEK as a substitute for Khomeini.
Let me explain who the MEK is.
That's the Mujahideen of the people.
And that was a revolutionary group that killed three of my colonels, one of my brigadier generals, and countless numbers of my CIA operatives and Foreign Service officers.
In total, maybe over 100 Americans during the period of 73 and 75, destroying 10 buildings.
The head of the MEK is what Bolton wants as the leader of Iran, the new Iran.
This is Bolton, the idiot savant who had no idea how dangerous and what a terrorist group the MEK was because I had to confront them directly as a young colonel and as a deputy assistant secretary under Nixon, Foreign Service.
Ford, Carter, and I had to be able to extract out my personnel from the State Department, from the military, and from the CIA. Now, once we get into that conflict, what is Bolton going to do?
He's going to increase the tension and say, oh, we clearly have to fight back because his ability to combat Container conflict is binary.
It's zero and one.
He doesn't know how to negotiate any kind of conflict.
He doesn't know how to de-conflict it.
Neither does Pompeo.
He spent four or five years in West Point and another four years to maintain his obligation to the military and got out.
So we have two very incompetent individuals servicing a very competent president who repeatedly said, I do not want a war.
I do not want a war with Iran.
Well, the problem is he's heading in a carrier plus four B-52 bombers.
And a patriot missile systems that will all confront the Iran Revolutionary Guard and an exceedingly smart leader, Soleimani.
I've spent time in Iran.
I've spent time with Nazar Ali of the Hezbollah.
And I can assure you that Hezbollah can destroy Israel if it wants to with 130,000 rockets.
Let me quote Mark Twain, who said, patriotism is the ability to swear allegiance to the republic and to denigrate governments from time to time.