Posted on 03/07/2005 6:01:35 PM PST by RWR8189
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During the first term, Bolton was undersecretary of state for arms controla 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 Democracythe neocon movement of the '90s from which nearly all of Bush's national security team sprangBolton 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 statea campaign that Condoleezza Rice staved off, appointing Robert Zoellick, a pragmatist and career diplomat, instead.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.msn.com ...
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?
This is supposed to be bad right?
NOT JUST BAD. IT'S VEY SERIES.
Viva Booooosh! Viva Roooooove!
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.
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Vewy cwever, Mr. CyberAnt. You have a knack for seeing connections.
That's funny. Saying that to a MSM journalist. As a group they have a terrible history of not bothering with that little detail.
NOT JUST BAD. IT'S VEY SERIES
Ok I can see where it could be VEY SERIES, but is it HUGH?
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