Posted on 03/08/2005 11:24:34 AM PST by ambrose
Bush Gives the UN the Finger
Mon Mar 7, 4:55 PM ET
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David Corn
If you were sitting in the Oval Office and George W. Bush asked, "Hey, tell me, who could we appoint to the UN ambassador job that would most piss off the UN and the rest of the world," your job would be quite easy. You would simply say, "That's a no-brainer, Mr. President, John Bolton." And on Monday Bush took this no-brain advice and nominated Bolton to the post, which requires Senate confirmation.
Bolton is the rightwing's leading declaimer of the United Nations (news - web sites). He once said, "If the UN Secretariat building in New York lost ten stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference." And when the Bush administration failed to persuade the UN to back its war in Iraq (news - web sites), Bolton observed that was "further evidence to many why nothing should be paid to the UN system."
Bolton has expressed much more vitriol for the UN than those two (representative) remarks, for he has been a UN-basher for years. Sure, the UN has many flaws and deserves reform. But what message does it convey to the UN and the world to send to the UN a fellow who has essentially called for total defunding of the institution? And this move comes right after Bush went to Europe to mend fences and after he has started working closely with France in an admirable effort to push Syria out of Lebanon. The Bolton appointment is unfathomable--except if viewed as a payback to the neocons.
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The Finger......Thats it....
The U.S. out of the u.n. and the u.n. out of the U.S.
It's about time the US did something to let the UN know how we feel about them.
Uh...the right one?
If criticism like this is unacceptable, why do Corn and his Nation buddied lob much, MUCH worse at Bush?
nice move bush, stir the pot a little.
Giving the UN the finger is too tame. Giving them Bolton is more appropriate.
And this is a bad thing..how?
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I'm SO PLEASED this nomination has bunched the panties of that tight-lipped little weasel, Corn.
I still say we should have seized the UN complex on 9-12-01 and given the office space to companies that had been in the WTC.
I didn't know much about him before, but I already like him.
May he follow in the footsteps of UN Ambassadors like Jeanne Kirkpatrick instead of ones like Adlai Stevenson.
"Bolton is the rightwing's leading declaimer of the United Nations"
No he isn't.
"And when the Bush administration failed to persuade the UN to back its war in Iraq, Bolton observed that was "further evidence to many why nothing should be paid to the UN system."
Bolton correctly says "system." The "UN" is not an individual, independent agency but a tool limited by it's members various interests. France, Russia and China blocked some fo Bush's aims in order to secure their oil rights. The very same is happening for Darfur the same three also have oil drilling rights in Sudan.
I agree. It tells them that we now know they exist to oppose the US, and that we will no longer tolerate it.
This is a tremendously good move on W's part, and in no small way will make us safer going forward. The world political landscape is a nasty place for the top dog, and the dog has been barking, but it's time to bite.
the only way you get the UN to change is to put someone in there who is against what was and is the staus quo there,, liberals ARE stupid,,,,,,,,,
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