NahnCee – John Bolton and I think it (starting war with Iran) will be after the election and before the inauguration

Unlikely unless the President-Elect and the people with the majority in Congress wish to be handed a major ME War, 9 dollar a gallon gas and heating oil amidst a vicious economic downturn well underway before.

Support of the C-i-C in the military will be at it’s nadir for such a stunt, basically a new vast Neocon aggression on behalf of Israel, in the midst of what appears to be another massive bloodletting coming of his Party in Congress, an Administration changeover, and the military being used as a tool to usurp the electoral Will of the People.
Not unless there is a “Yellow/Green” light from the President-elect, and an AIPAC-purchased one with the Democratic Congress.

Even if the President-Elect is McCain. If he decides to hit Iran, it will be with his people and his assessment in place, not as Bush’s stooge in a last-gasp stunt that would condemn a McCain Administration to condemnation before it started, domestically and internationally.

As for Bolton, the unreconstructed Neocon and Christian Zionist was sent packing out of policy-making after the 2006 elections for many good reasons.
He won’t be back in any Administration or championed by an adequate number of Congress in any case. He will be at the margins the rest of his career like Wolfowitz and Feith, writing fiery essays from think tanks and hawking books and speeches to receptive “old school” Zionists and Cuban-Americans.