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| Fiery Arms Control Expert Bolton to Be U.S. Ambassador to United Nations |
| 2005-03-07 |
| John R. Bolton, a tough-talking arms control official who rarely muffles his views in diplomatic niceties, was chosen Monday by President Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Senate Democrats immediately assailed the nomination, arguing that it didn't make sense for the president to pick a diplomat who has sometimes been critical of the world body at a time when mending fences with the international community was imperative. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Bolton's selection sent "all the wrong signals." Anticipating a possible fight over confirmation - in 2001, Bolton was approved for his current post over the opposition of 43 Democratic senators - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, "Through our history some of our best ambassadors have been those with strong voices." She mentioned former U.N. ambassadors Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Daniel Patrick Moynihan... Bush and the republican senators are planning a major punishment of the democrat senators, to convince them that they are the minority party, and must behave as the minority. They have been too arrogant for too long, and must get a lot of the fight knocked out of them. Once they adopt a humbler countenance, then they can sit at the grown-ups table again. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #1 Bush and the republican senators are planning a major punishment of the democrat senators Sounds like they are planning a major punishment of the UN too if this guy is un-PC. hehehehehe... |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-03-07 5:53:00 PM |