Not dear John
Posted on 03/07/2005 6:01:35 PM PST by RWR8189
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Not dear John |
During the first term, Bolton was undersecretary of state for arms control—a revealing position, since no other official in government was more hostile than Bolton to the very idea of arms control. A former president of the Project for a New American Democracy—the neocon movement of the '90s from which nearly all of Bush's national security team sprang—Bolton opposed not only the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (de rigueur for any Bush appointee), but also the international bioweapons conference, the ban on chemical weapons, the nuclear test ban; any accord that limited anything the United States might someday want to do. At State, Bolton's main job was to serve as Vice President Dick Cheney's agent at Foggy Bottom, monitoring, opposing, and, to the extent possible, thwarting from within the moderating influence of Secretary Colin Powell and his crew of pin-striped diplomats. He was particularly active in sabotaging Powell's efforts to open up nuclear disarmament negotiations with North Korea.
When Powell left at the end of last year, the neocons lobbied for Bolton to rise to the post of deputy secretary of state—a campaign that Condoleezza Rice staved off, appointing Robert Zoellick, a pragmatist and career diplomat, instead.
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I've been giddy all day with this appointment. This author is right on that this is a big FU to the UN but that's why I like it :)
UN Flunkie: "Secretary Anan, Sir, we have just received word that John Bolton is the new US Ambassador to the UN, and he wants to see you in his office tomorrow at 9:00 sharp."
Kofi: "Oh shi.........."
I'm seeing crossed signals here. The President supports the L.O.S.T. TREATY yet he send a fine man like Bolton to fight for us. Why in the hell doesn't he say, GET US OUT!
Can he get us out of Agenda 21?
I dunno. It seems as if the media elite lie to each other in the hopes that their lies become truths and are safe in the realization that a large majority of the news outlets in this country will run with it as gospel.
It's not working anymore, but it's all they've ever known their whole lives.
Nobody here expects Helen Thomas to have a "road to Damascus" incident.
Very reminiscent of President Reagan appointing Jeanne Kirkpatrick, another good American who had the weasels' number, and let them know it!
Josh Bolton can be described in one word, TOUGH!!! He will straighten their corrupt a**es out at the corrupt third world UN. You can bet the communist-socialist Liberals in the Senate will probably filibuster him.
Ole Josh might need our help at confirmation. He will be a fantastic as our ambassador to the UN.
bingo
If Bolton really said these things, he might be an acceptable choice for ambassador to the U.N.
Let's hope he's in charge of our response to the Law of the Sea Treaty.
Awesome!!! I can hear Hail to the Chief, as I read this article!
ping for later. :-)
Translation:
multilateralist = against the US
unilateralist = for the US
That's what they don't like.
Now about the Oil for Food Investigation KOFI, LOL!
As he should!
I think Jeanne Kirkpatrick is TERRIFIC!!
She really kicked a lot of Turd World and Soviet butt, and I think this Bolton has the same stuff.
"...I seem to spend more time in a different room in the house in front of a computer..."
Yeah, know what you mean. Can't remember the last time I watched anything on TV if it came from other than a rare VCR tape or DVD :)
And just for the record, I LIKE this appointment!
Totally agree. I'm pleased w this appt. However, we know the Dims in the Senate are going to be out in full force against him - - Coffee Anan will probably be lobbying them
(which makes me like him even more than I already do)
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