Bush’s Fast-Track Confirmation Plan Continues: May Nominate Muslim U.N. Ambassador

MND ^ | December 10, 2006 | Doug Powers

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

Great dont fight for bolton, and nominate a muslim.

could someone tell me why I waited in line to vote last month?

[navyguy]

Death by a thousand cuts, but now the president is holding the knife.

[tessalu]

This is a horror. Tell me that it is not true!

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

This isnt the first website I have seen this.

[Hildy]

You don't even know this guy, do you?

[GVNR]

Man, do we need another Reagan!!

I like GW, but he AND the rest of the pubbies need to "grow some" and kick butt.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

Nope, but it is to risky to put a muslim as an ambassador to an already anti semetic organization. I dont want to take the chance he is the least bit sympathetic to the "plight" of the pali's.

Do you trust a muslim is going to have the cajones to sit in the well of the U.N. security council and hammer these third world tin pot dicators.

While it would be refreshing, I doubt it would happen and dont want to risk it.

[stylin19a]

um...a fan of Zbigniew Brzezinski ?

[SolidWood]

Khalilzad (currently US Ambassador in Iraq) is a good guy. I don't care whether he is Afghani by birth or not. He wouldn't be the worst choice. I have no problem at all with Khalilzad...

[BW2221]

The longer Bush is in office, the less I like him.

Any guesses as to how long it will be before he teams with Ms. Nancy to pass the "comprehensive immigration" bill?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Just what would you have a problem with?

[Arizona Carolyn]

January 4th or 5th.

[Accygirl]

Khalizad is our Ambassador to Iraq and before it was our Ambassador to Afghanistan. He's a strong conservative and supporter of the President's foreign policy.

[oceanview]

the Bolton card was played to the end - the votes aren't there, that's it. what do you want Bush to do, hold a gun to Chaffee's head during the vote?

I don't know enough about this new guy to comment.

[DrDeb]

FYI: Zalmay Khalilzad is regarded by ALL informed conservatives (vs reactionary bigots like several of the posters on this thread) as BEYOND Bolton-esque.

Many regard what Zalmay has been able to accomplish in Afghanistan and Iraq (re: constitutions/elections) as absolutely miraculous! He would be a PHENOMENAL ambassador to the UN . . . and Bolton would be the first to endorse his nomination!

[SolidWood]

Sorry, but I don't get your question...
But for what it is worth: I have a problem with defeatist, isolationist, liberal/socialist, terrorist-loving antisemites (in general and particularly in politics and power-positions).
Khalilzad is neither of them...
He is no observant Muslim at all (AFAIK) and obviously no Islamofascist. He has done good work in Iraq as our ambassador, so I fail to see the problem...

[PhilCollins]

Whom do you want Bush to nominate? I think that he should nominate Sen. George Allen. He's a conservative member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. He was a U.S. rep. and governor.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

The Nuclear option would have been nice! It also would have been a shot in the arm to the base. Bolton had 58 votes. and the dems did what they have done for 6 years obstruct.

[oceanview]

there is no nuclear option on committee.