Bolton in the News

John Bolton, George Bush's nominee for the post of UN Ambassador is not only the wrong person for that post, he belongs on heavy medication in a supervised environment where he doesn't have access to sharp objects.

Barbara Boxer was being too kind when she suggested he needed an anger management course.

Bolton has been a consistant critic of the UN saying there was no such thing as the UN, and that 10 of its 38 stories could be eliminated without anyone noticing. Was he suggesting another NY target? Those are hardly the words that would promote interntional cooperation and the rebuilding of alliances.

The truly scary aspects of John Bolton's personality should have Congressional Republicans and Democrats insisting his nomination be withdrawn.

In 1994, Bolton chased US AID project leader Melody Townsel through the halls of a Russian hotel, throwing things at her because she criticized his client who was the prime contractor on that project.
http://www.dailykos.com/user/amyindallas

Chased her through the halls throwing things at her? That is not the act of a sane person.

Fifty-nine ex-diplomats who served under both Republican and Democrat administrations sent a protest letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asking that the nomination be blocked.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4389639.stm

Carl Ford Jr., a former chief of the State Dept. Bureau of Intelligence and Research called Bolton a "serial abuser" who harrassed those who disagreed with him.
MSNBC - Senate panel delays vote on U.N. nominee

Sen. Lugar, discounting all the charges indicating Bolton's unsuitability, was quoted as saying the paramount issue was giving President Bush the nominee he wanted to undertake reform at the UN.

Which begs the question, "What could Bush possibly be thinking?"

It's beginning to look more and more like the inmates are running the asylum.