On 7/12/06 17:34, in article ,
"irwell" wrote:

On 7 Dec 2006 04:12:21 -0800, "PJ O'Donovan" wrote:

Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will
step
down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White
House
said Monday.



GOOD! He can go back to being Mr.Pastry.


Prior to Bush's dodge of giving him a recess appointment, some
50 American diplomats submitted the following protesting his
appointment.

The American anti-UN right loved him but nobody considered
him a diplomat. He was kicked out of the State Department
to avoid his walking on Condi's toes.

The Bush administration was full of people like him, which
is why the nation is in a terrible fix now. The "know nothings"
came to power. All of them fit the PJ O'Donovan model of idiocy.

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"Diplomats Declare Bolton Has "Exceptional Record" Undermining U.S.
Interests"

It's all over the news, but let me add my own piece on the 59 former
American diplomats who have written to Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Chairman Richard Lugar to say that the choice of John Bolton
could not be more wrong for America's perch in the U.N.

AP's Barry Schweid reports:

The ex-diplomats have served in both Democratic and Republican
administrations, some for long terms and others briefly. They include
Arthur A. Hartman, ambassador to France and the Soviet Union under
Presidents Carter and Reagan and assistant secretary of state for
European affairs under President Nixon.

Others who signed the letter include James F. Leonard, deputy
ambassador to the U.N. in the Ford and Carter administrations;
Princeton N. Lyman, ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria under
Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton; Monteagle Stearns,
ambassador to Greece and Ivory Coast in the Ford, Carter and Reagan
administrations; and Spurgeon M. Keeny Jr., deputy director of the Arms
Control Agency in the Carter administration.
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Their criticism dwelled primarily on Bolton's stand on issues as the
State Department's senior arms control official. They said he had an
"exceptional record" of opposing U.S. efforts to improve national
security through arms control.


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