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Bush to U.N.: Drop Dead (The administration will regret its latest appointment) [Waaaaaaaaah alert]
Slate ^ | March 7, 2005 | Fred Kaplan

Posted on 03/07/2005 6:01:35 PM PST by RWR8189

Not dear John

Not dear John

Just as it looked like George W. Bush might be nudging toward multilateralism, he goes and appoints John Bolton as his ambassador to the United Nations. There could be no clearer sign that the contempt for the international organization, which was such a prominent feature of Bush's first term, will extend into his second term with still greater force and eloquence.

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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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bolton; bush43; johnbolton; term2; un; unambassador; unitednations
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To: RWR8189

Just as it looked like George W. Bush might be nudging toward multilateralism, he goes and appoints John Bolton as his ambassador to the United Nations.

This is supposed to be bad right?


61 posted on 03/07/2005 9:52:46 PM PST by Valin (DARE to be average!)
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To: Valin

This is supposed to be bad right?

NOT JUST BAD. IT'S VEY SERIES.

Viva Booooosh! Viva Roooooove!


62 posted on 03/07/2005 11:02:26 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
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To: RWR8189
contempt for the international organization, which was such a prominent feature of Bush's first term, will extend into his second term with still greater force and eloquence.

Continuous improvement, that's what we strive for.


63 posted on 03/07/2005 11:05:43 PM PST by Nick Danger (The only way out is through)
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To: CyberAnt
The President had other plans.

Vewy cwever, Mr. CyberAnt. You have a knack for seeing connections.

64 posted on 03/08/2005 1:02:08 AM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: DTogo
Hey Fred, get your facts straight,

That's funny. Saying that to a MSM journalist. As a group they have a terrible history of not bothering with that little detail.

65 posted on 03/08/2005 1:04:53 AM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: Blurblogger

NOT JUST BAD. IT'S VEY SERIES

Ok I can see where it could be VEY SERIES, but is it HUGH?


66 posted on 03/08/2005 6:42:32 AM PST by Valin (DARE to be average!)
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