Podhoretz: I told Bush ‘Strike Iran’ Norman Podhoretz, an intellectual leader of the neoconservative movement in the US who has joined Republican Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser, told London’s Sunday Times he urged US President George W. Bush to bomb Iran during an unpublicized meeting with him late last spring at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. "I urged Bush to take action against the Iranian nuclear facilities and explained why I thought there was no alternative" said Podhoretz. “I laid out the worst-case scenario – bombing Iran – versus the worst-case consequences of allowing the Iranians to get the bomb.” He also told Bush: “You have the awesome responsibility to prevent another holocaust. Full Article at Israpundit