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Posted on 03/28/2005 3:33:53 PM PST by mathprof
Challenging the White House, 59 former American diplomats are urging the Senate to reject John R. Bolton's nomination to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
"He is the wrong man for this position," they said in a letter to Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Indiana Republican has scheduled hearings on Bolton's nomination for April 7.
"We urge you to reject that nomination," the former diplomats said in a letter obtained by The Associated Press and dated Tuesday.
The ex-diplomats have served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, some for long terms and others briefly. They include Arthur A. Hartman, ambassador to France and the Soviet Union under Presidents Carter and Reagan and assistant secretary of state for European affairs under President Nixon.
Others who signed the leader include Princeton N. Lyman, ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria under Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton; Monteagle Stearns, ambassador to Greece and Ivory Coast in the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations; and Spurgeon M. Keeny Jr., deputy director of the Arms Control Agency in the Carter administration.
Their criticism dwelled primarily on Bolton's stand on issues as the State Department's senior arms control official. They said he had an "exceptional record" of opposing U.S. efforts to improve national security through arms control.
But the former diplomats also chided Bolton for his "insistence that the U.N. is valuable only when it directly serves the United States."
That view, they said, would not help him negotiate with other diplomats at the United Nations.
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I join them in opposing Michael Bolton.
Must be the right guy for the job. Hehe.
That's just what I was thinking.
Who gives a rat's azz what they think BUMP!
Go Johnny Go.
FLASHBACK
Secretary of Defense Cohen, Impeached Bill Clinton, Albright, and long-accepted CODE-level thief
and document destroyer National Security Adviser Sandy Berger,
holding court in the Ronald Reagan Building on April 25, 1999
The Impeached Bill Clinton: "We were all making comments
we shouldn't have about how the meeting was getting very boring.
So finally we decided we had to make like the monkey. Cohen
started this 'hear no evil,' and then I was next so I spoke no evil,
then Madeleine saw no evil, so Sandy Berger said, 'I'm evil.'"
Why don't you like him, Poohbah?
Probably the same "ex-diplomats" that the media trots out to oppose every Bush appointment and foreign policy decision.
If it pisses of 59 EX-diplomats, then I'm all for it.
The State Department has been outstanding - in the left field - for far too long.
Why do you give Bolton the thumbs down?
LVM
I'm thinking these are 59 "new world order" types who are more intersted in pandering & politicing so other countries 'like us', rather than looking at what is in the best interests of The United States.
Because I'm a heterosexual male. It's a union requirement.
And I thought dissention was the highest form of patriotism. It seems these FORMER diplomats just want a UN stooge yes man. Ain't gunna happen.
"But the former diplomats also chided Bolton for his "insistence that the U.N. is valuable only when it directly serves the United States.""
that's a great start - especially with how much the US has paid the members (in aid monies) and the UN itself...
"The ex-diplomats have served"
More important - what countries do they serve now as lobbyists?
Oh...they're opposing John Bolton, not Michael Bolton. Nevermind! (c8
LOL. NO. Really. I don't know a lot about Bolton and wonder why you don't like him.
"Why don't you like him, Poohbah?"
I don't like Michael Bolton either. That caterwallin fool irritates me.
Looks like she just came from "Fashion Dollar Daze" at the local Fred's or Dollar General store ... LOL.
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