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| Downer turned down nuke job offer: report |
| 2004-12-12 |
| Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has been approached to become the next head of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog, according to the the Washington Post. The newspaper says the Bush administration wants the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed El Baradei, to step down. The article says the US asked Mr Downer several months ago if he would consider the job but he apparently refused to challenge Dr El Baradei. The Post reports that the US has bugged Dr El Baradei's phone calls with Iranian officials in its bid to push him out of the job. Hardliners within the Bush administration think Dr El Baradei is too soft on Iran but Democrat Senator Joe Biden is concerned. "It's a very slippery, dangerous slope as we're trying to re-establish ourselves as a player in the international community," he said. "I'd be very careful if I were them." "I agree with the administration, [Dr El Baradei] is going a little too slow with Iran but this is really a dangerous and slippery slope." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Slow Joe Biden |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-12 9:15:28 PM |
| #3 And a plagiarist. And bald. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-12-12 8:31:37 PM |
| #2 "we’re trying to re-establish ourselves as a player in the international community" WTF? Biden isn't some rational mildly liberal Dhimmidonk, he's a Moron who's pandering to whom he realizes runs (owns? lol!) the Dhimmidonk Party. If he had only half Lieberman's integrity... Oh, yeah, he's also a Chia Pet. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-12 8:21:43 PM |
| #1 Today George Will proclaimed Biden a rare responsible voice within his party on foreign affairs. In this article we learn that Biden is mildly worried about Iranian nukes, but that calling for the replacement of a corrupt, ineffectual UN bureaucrat who tried to interfere in a US presidential election is 'really dangerous.' I don't know what's scarier: that, compared to Michael Moore or Al Gore, Biden is in fact more responsible or that their party got 48% of the vote. |
| Posted by: JAB 2004-12-12 8:03:02 PM |