Good choice. I think he's the one that told the UN conference on small arms that we won't play that game.
Bolton, a senior vice president for pubic policy research with the American Enterprise Institute, was spotted in the thick of the battle for the White House during the contested presidential election. Press photographers snapped him with other Bush stalwarts counting hanging chads in Palm Beach.
Bolton's other battles, at least in recent years, have centered on Taiwan and the United Nations. In a clear break with Washington's long-standing "one-China" policy, Bolton advocates that Taiwan be recognized as an independent state and be given a seat in the United Nations. In 1994, Bolton opened his testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee by declaring, "I believe that the United States should support the efforts of the Republic of China on Taiwan to become a full member of the United Nations."
Do people actually watch CNN? I'm amazed.
As long as it's not that no-talent assclown, Michael Bolton.
President Bush intends to nominate Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a government official said on Monday.
Bolton, who has served as Washington's top arms control official, would succeed former Sen. John Danforth, who retired in January.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice informed the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and the senior Democrat, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, of the selection. She also notified U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said a government official knowledgeable about the situation.
Bolton, 56, must be confirmed for the post, which is being filled temporarily by Anne Patterson, a career foreign service officer, who took over for Danforth.
Bolton's strong views have made him a controversial figure. North Korea was so incensed by his public denunciations of their nuclear weapons program that the Pyongyang government refused to negotiate with him and he was removed from the U.S. delegation to the now-dormant talks.
An attorney, Bolton has been under secretary of state for arms control and international security since May 11 and earlier held a variety of high-level government jobs at the departments of Justice and State under Republican administrations.
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Liberals hate this guy. Brace yourself for their whining.
The singer?
Just kidding
Oh goody, another nasty confirmation hearing to see the Rats spill their bile. Watch Biden stir the pot hard on next week's Sunday shows.
Anyone know how he would rank on the candor scale with the two greatest ever to hold that job, Moynihan and Kirkpatrick.
National Review was unhappy that he wasn't chosen as Condi"s assistant. Now they will be happy.
The hearings will be the usual pettifogging joke.
Oh, wait, you said JOHN.
Bush to nominate UN critic Bolton as envoy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush has decided to nominate John Bolton, a long-time critic of the United Nations, to be the new U.S. ambassador to the world body, senior State Department officials say.
Bolton, who has been a leading hawk against Iran and North Korea as the State Department's point man on arms control policies, has often complained about U.N. bodies for not taking strong enough action against such nations.
"The president and Secretary (of State Condoleezza) Rice have chosen Mr. Bolton because he knows how to get things done. He is a tough-minded diplomat," an official said.
Bolton's nomination must be confirmed by the Senate. He would take up the U.N. post that was left vacant when
former Senator John Danforth resigned in December.
"John Bolton is personally committed to the future success of the U.N. and he will be a strong voice for reform," the
official said.
Bolton, 56, has a reputation for speaking bluntly -- a style that at times has caused friction with allies' diplomats.
The veteran official, who is admired by American conservatives, often clashed with former Secretary of State Colin Powell as he resisted his boss' efforts to negotiate with North Korea over its suspected nuclear weapons
development, according to U.S. officials.
Reuters
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5584546
No more UN for US-list
If people want on or off this list, please let me know.
SWEET!
Great choice because UNFIT, pro-UN global dictatorship advocate John Kerry, immediately in strong terms, expressed that he opposes this appointment! Anyone Kerry opposes is reason for an opposite reaction and reason for a positive endorsement. (ref: Drudge article...)
"I spent more than twenty years studying fascism, and all that time I kept asking myself how the democratic countries of the West could have been so blind, and how they could have been so totally unprepared for Hitler's war. After all, he had written Mein Kampf, which pretty much laid it all out. Once in power, he set about arming the country, making menacing sounds to his neighbors, crushing the Jews and separating them out of the population, and preparing to march. It was all so clear. He made no effort to trick us. We simply refused to believe what was right in front of our noses. In the fullness of time, the other Europeans were cannon fodder for Hitler's armies, and the United States did virtually nothing until we were bombed into war by the Japanese.
Then I look at China today, and I ask myself the same questions. China's leaders have made no bones about their hatred for us. They have loudly and publicly announced their intention to develop armies capable of destroying us. They have threatened to bomb Los Angeles if we do anything to annoy them, especially in the defense of democratic Taiwan. They have been busily crushing religious groups in China who dare recognize any authority other than the regime itself, and are separating them out of the population. There is no effort to trick us, none of the legendary inscrutability of the East. It is all so clear.
In the past few days, both the CIA and the FBI have warned about the increasing Chinese espionage in the United States, aimed primarily at obtaining our advanced military technology. One wonders why they bother, since we've been quite willing to sell them most anything they need. Clinton and Gore have deliberately and systematically armed China, and when a tiny handful of congressmen tried to get the details, Clinton and Gore quashed investigations and withheld evidence from investigators.
Meanwhile, the Chinese prepare for war, and warn us of its consequences. The headlines for the past several weeks have reported an endless barrage of threats from Beijing: There will be war with Taiwan if it dares to act as an independent country, and war with us if we dare to defend them, as we have sometimes promised to do. It may be all bluff and bluster, but, I keep thinking, that's what lots of people said about Hitler.
The Taiwanese elections are now ten days away, and the Chinese show all the signs of preparing to attack. They have moved an enormous quantity of military materiel down south, just across the straits from Taiwan. They have hordes and swarms of soldiers, bundles of missiles, plenty of aircraft. The intelligence community reports these facts to our leaders, but our leaders are silent. Great journalists like Bill Gertz report these facts to the public, but there is no outcry. We are strong enough to deter China, but we show no sign of wanting to warn them off. On the contrary: we welcome their military leaders, escort them around our bases, sell them our best weapons, and even train their soldiers. Not even the most feckless French leaders would have dreamed of training the Wehrmacht, or of selling advanced technology for the Panzer corps.
Whether now or a few years from now, it is increasingly likely that we will have to fight China, and we have done everything possible to ensure that they will win. In the 1930s, Western businessmen did deals with the Nazis, but there was no leading Western government that armed the Third Reich as a matter of official policy. But we are arming China. Clinton and Gore are Lenin's dream come true: capitalists selling communists the rope with which to hang us.
Some legacy."
MUD: Bill Clinton has sold out this Country's security in a devil's pact to remain in power. At this point, he couldn't stand up to the Chi-Coms even if he were so inclined, because they would leak such compellingly concrete evidence of his treasonous, anti-American activities that even the Clinton Sycophants in the Vast, Left-Wing Media Whore'd would have to sit up and take notice!! Algore is similarly compromised and cannot be trusted to act in the best interests of the United States in matters relating to China. For all you folks who think there is no difference between the DemonRATS and Republicans, please watch this issue carefully over the next eight months...we cannot afford another four-to-eight years of Clinton/Gore policies as they relate to China. And for you BushBackers out there, please make every effort to impress upon Dubyuh the absolute necessity of making ChinaGate an integral issue in the upcoming presidential campaign.
FReegards...MUD
1 Posted on 03/11/2000 22:42:20 PST by Mudboy Slim (Treason.is@Capital.Crime)