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Power Problems • May 7, 2019 

# Will John Bolton Finally Get His Iran War? 

Arguments about the Iraq War loom large over pretty much every foreign policy debate in Washington. Does the Trump administration have similar intentions towards Iran? Lawrence Wilkerson joins us to discuss.

- [Lawrence Wilkerson bio](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Wilkerson)
- Lawrence Wilkerson, “[I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It’s Happening Again/​a>,” *New York Times*, February 5, 2018](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/opinion/trump-iran-war.html)
- Dexter Filkins, [John Bolton on the Warpath](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/john-bolton-on-the-warpath), *New Yorker*, May 6, 2019

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##### Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson (Ret.) 

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##### [A. Trevor Thrall](/people/trevor-thrall)

Former Senior Fellow, Defense and Foreign Policy Department, Cato Institute

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