From an LBN thread...go read this and then see why Robert G. Joseph is NOT good news.
(Robert G. Joseph)
U.S. Official: Iran Can Make Atomic Armshttp://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2090284People keep popping out of the woodwork, and this is another scary cog in the worst administration in the neocon unfolding world.
This stuff is beginning to freak me out.
This is who he is:http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1235 Highlights & Quotes
The top U.S. government official in charge of arms control advocates the offensive use of nuclear weapons and has deep roots in the neoconservative political camp . Moving into John Bolton’s old job, Robert G. Joseph is the right-wing’s advance man for counterproliferation as the conceptual core of a new U.S. military policy. Within the administration, he leads a band of counterproliferationists who—working closely with such militarist policy institutes as the National Institute for Public Policy and the Center for Security Policy—have placed preemptive attacks and weapons of mass destruction at the center of U.S. national security strategy.