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"John Rennie" a écrit dans le message de news:
...

"Fred Bloggs" wrote in message
.. .
In article m,
says...
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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/...igns&printer=1

About time.

Earl Evleth

December 07, 2006
The Nuts Get Bolton
By David Warren

Perhaps the best ambassador to the U.N. that the U.S. has had for a
generation, has resigned rather than put his country and the Bush
administration through the spectacle of being retroactively "Borked" by
a soon Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate. John Bolton was detested by
many senators (and admired by a few) as much for his robust personal
qualities, as for his proven ability to advance U.S. interests through
the chambers of the world's most ponderous, cumbersome, and therefore
thankfully ineffective, anti-American institution.

Let's face it, Bolton was foisted on the US Congress by a Shrubbery mad
with their own power, who thought they didn't need to be accountable to
the democratic institutions. Now they're learning why that was wrong.
Frankly, they seem damned unappreciative of the valuable lesson in
practical politics they're being taught.

[snipped unreadable drivel]

© Ottawa Citizen

Bolton was rejected by more than one Republican Senator not so much for
his political attitude but for his bullying behaviour to his subordinates.