Bush to Nominate Bolton as U.N. Ambassador
By Fred Barbash and Colum Lynch
President Bush has chosen Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton, a longtime critic of the United Nations and a hard-liner on Taiwan-China relations and arms control, to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced today.
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Full Version: John Bolton as UN Ambassador
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This is very bad news from the standpoint of working with the UN and the rest of the world to avoid additional Iraqs. Countries that have been our "traditional allies" will likely interpret Bolton's appointment as a finger in the eye from Bush-Cheney-Rice-Rumsfeld et al.
Bush Appoints Right-Wing Extremist to UN Post :
In a breathtaking victory for right-wing hawks, U.S. President George W. Bush has nominated Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton to become his next ambassador to the United Nations.
http://207.44.245.159/article8211.htm
In a breathtaking victory for right-wing hawks, U.S. President George W. Bush has nominated Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton to become his next ambassador to the United Nations.
http://207.44.245.159/article8211.htm
Bush Nominates Weapons Expert as Envoy to U.N.
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Many diplomats expressed concern with John R. Bolton's
nomination, noting that he had been scathing in his
criticism of the U.N.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/politics/08bolton.html?th
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Many diplomats expressed concern with John R. Bolton's
nomination, noting that he had been scathing in his
criticism of the U.N.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/politics/08bolton.html?th
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Harsh Critic of U.N. Named Ambassador
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Bush's choice of State Department's John R. Bolton dismays Democrats. Backers say he's a tough envoy who can 'get things done.'
By Sonni Efron
Times Staff Writer
March 8 2005
WASHINGTON President Bush on Monday nominated State Department official John R. Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, selecting an administration loyalist who has disparaged the world body and clashed with allies over Iran and North Korea policy.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...0,6001007.story
Harsh Critic of U.N. Named Ambassador
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Bush's choice of State Department's John R. Bolton dismays Democrats. Backers say he's a tough envoy who can 'get things done.'
By Sonni Efron
Times Staff Writer
March 8 2005
WASHINGTON President Bush on Monday nominated State Department official John R. Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, selecting an administration loyalist who has disparaged the world body and clashed with allies over Iran and North Korea policy.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...0,6001007.story
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Bolton Known to Some as the Un-Diplomat
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The U.N. ambassador nominee speaks his mind freely. His stern messages have won him powerful admirers in the administration.
By Paul Richter
Times Staff Writer
March 8 2005
WASHINGTON; Diplomats from six countries were ready to begin long-awaited talks on North Korea's nuclear program in July 2003 when U.S. arms control official John R. Bolton unexpectedly showed up in Seoul for a speech on the secretive regime.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...,0,689091.story
Bolton Known to Some as the Un-Diplomat
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The U.N. ambassador nominee speaks his mind freely. His stern messages have won him powerful admirers in the administration.
By Paul Richter
Times Staff Writer
March 8 2005
WASHINGTON; Diplomats from six countries were ready to begin long-awaited talks on North Korea's nuclear program in July 2003 when U.S. arms control official John R. Bolton unexpectedly showed up in Seoul for a speech on the secretive regime.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...,0,689091.story
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Bolton, Out of the Blue
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March 8 2005
President Bush got good reviews in Europe last month, but his second-term diplomatic charm offensive suffered a severe setback Monday with his nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, an arms control expert with very little patience for multilateral niceties, is a leader of the administration's neoconservative hawks, who have been openly scornful of the United Nations.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editor...0,6304505.story
Bolton, Out of the Blue
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March 8 2005
President Bush got good reviews in Europe last month, but his second-term diplomatic charm offensive suffered a severe setback Monday with his nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, an arms control expert with very little patience for multilateral niceties, is a leader of the administration's neoconservative hawks, who have been openly scornful of the United Nations.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editor...0,6304505.story
Arab nations see Bolton nomination as signal of tough U.S. line on Iran, Syria:
Some in the Middle East saw Bolton's nomination, announced Monday, as a sign that hard-liners in favor of a more aggressive U.S. policy abroad are becoming stronger in Washington.
http://cbsnewyork.com/international/UN-USA...urces_news_html
http://tinyurl.com/6h9vc
Some in the Middle East saw Bolton's nomination, announced Monday, as a sign that hard-liners in favor of a more aggressive U.S. policy abroad are becoming stronger in Washington.
http://cbsnewyork.com/international/UN-USA...urces_news_html
http://tinyurl.com/6h9vc
Signal behind Bolton's nomination to UN post
As a conservative, he will push to reform the body, but he'll have to
be conciliatory, too. By Howard LaFranchi
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0309/p02s02-usfp.html?s=hns
As a conservative, he will push to reform the body, but he'll have to
be conciliatory, too. By Howard LaFranchi
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0309/p02s02-usfp.html?s=hns
The World According to Bolton
The track record of John Bolton, President Bush's nominee
as our voice in the United Nations, won't win him any charm
points with the rest of the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/opinion/09wed1.html?th
The track record of John Bolton, President Bush's nominee
as our voice in the United Nations, won't win him any charm
points with the rest of the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/opinion/09wed1.html?th
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U.N. May Need Bolton's Bitter Medicine
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By Jacob Heilbrunn
Jacob Heilbrunn is an editorial writer at The Times.
March 9 2005
President Bush's nomination of neoconservative pit bull John R. Bolton to become ambassador to the United Nations is raising red flags among liberals.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-...0,1776570.story
U.N. May Need Bolton's Bitter Medicine
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By Jacob Heilbrunn
Jacob Heilbrunn is an editorial writer at The Times.
March 9 2005
President Bush's nomination of neoconservative pit bull John R. Bolton to become ambassador to the United Nations is raising red flags among liberals.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-...0,1776570.story
Defending Bolton
By Anne Applebaum
For the record, let me begin by repeating a few quotes from John Bolton, newly nominated as ambassador to the United Nations, just so that no one can accuse me of naivete. He has said, "The Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If it lost ten stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference." He has said that "wishful thinking about the United Nations . . . ran into a wall of reality in Kosovo." He has been skeptical of U.N. peacekeeping operations, skeptical of the U.S. obligation to pay its U.N. dues, skeptical of just about everything, really, to do with the United Nations.
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By Anne Applebaum
For the record, let me begin by repeating a few quotes from John Bolton, newly nominated as ambassador to the United Nations, just so that no one can accuse me of naivete. He has said, "The Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If it lost ten stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference." He has said that "wishful thinking about the United Nations . . . ran into a wall of reality in Kosovo." He has been skeptical of U.N. peacekeeping operations, skeptical of the U.S. obligation to pay its U.N. dues, skeptical of just about everything, really, to do with the United Nations.
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I don't know what Bush was thinking when he appointed Bolton--he must owe Bolton a favor. Bolton had campaigned for the Deputy position under Rice, but Rice decided on someone else. This may explain why Bolton was offered the UN Ambassador job. However, Bolton's appointment is a slap in the face the UN and makes it clear that Bush's promises to start mending fences with UN and our allies is not going to happen.
Bolton is known for his arrogance and unilateral policies--and his opposition to the UN. It is troubling that Bush would offer this position to him.
Bolton is known for his arrogance and unilateral policies--and his opposition to the UN. It is troubling that Bush would offer this position to him.
Tough Love or Tough Luck?
By Susan E. Rice
President Bush has shocked even his most cynical critics by nominating the combative neoconservative John Bolton to one of our most complex and sensitive diplomatic posts: U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton served the past four years as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, though then-Secretary of State Colin Powell initially resisted his appointment.
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By Susan E. Rice
President Bush has shocked even his most cynical critics by nominating the combative neoconservative John Bolton to one of our most complex and sensitive diplomatic posts: U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton served the past four years as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, though then-Secretary of State Colin Powell initially resisted his appointment.
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John Bolton, Neoconman
I hope you're enjoying the second term of the Cheney Administration. If you needed any more evidence that Cheney and the neocons are running the show, look no further than John Bolton
http://www.progressive.org/webex05/wx030805.php
I hope you're enjoying the second term of the Cheney Administration. If you needed any more evidence that Cheney and the neocons are running the show, look no further than John Bolton
http://www.progressive.org/webex05/wx030805.php
Ten Questions the Senate Should Ask John Bolton at his Confirmation Hearing, But Probably Won't
http://www.ips-dc.org/comment/Bennis/boltonquestions.htm
http://www.ips-dc.org/comment/Bennis/boltonquestions.htm
http://www.aljazeerah.info/News%20archives...0Criticized.htm
Bush's Choice of New UN Envoy Criticized
Bush's Choice of New UN Envoy Criticized
Another thug consideration, ugh, UN Ambassdor, I don't think so.
The Enemy Within
By Sidney Blumenthal
The Guardian U.K.
How an Americanist devoted to destroying international alliances became the US envoy to the UN.
In the heat of the battle over the Florida vote after the 2000 US presidential election, a burly, mustachioed man burst into the room where the ballots for Miami-Dade County were being tabulated, like John Wayne barging into a saloon for a shoot-out. "I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count," drawled John Bolton. And those ballots from Miami-Dade were not counted.
Now that same John Bolton has been named by President Bush as the US ambassador to the UN. "If I were redoing the security council today, I'd have one permanent member because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world," Bolton once said. Lately, as undersecretary of state for arms control, he has wrecked all the nonproliferation diplomacy within his reach. Over the past two decades he has been the person most dedicated to trying to discredit the UN. George Orwell's clock of 1984 is striking 13.
The euphoria that Bush's European trip marked a conversion on the road to Brussels is fading. For it was Bush himself who decided to reward Bolton with a position where he could continue his crusade as a "convinced Americanist" against the "globalists," especially those at the UN and the EU.
Bolton made a play to become deputy secretary of state after the 2004 election, but was blocked by Condoleezza Rice, who understood that his love of bureaucratic infighting would have undermined her authority. Dick Cheney privately promised Bolton that if all else failed he would give him a job on his vice presidential staff, but that proved unnecessary when Bush nominated him to the UN post. Rice announced his appointment, symbolically demonstrating that he reports to her. But Bolton has deep support within the White House, and Rice is very much a work-in-progress. With Bolton's appointment, the empire strikes back.
Bolton is an extraordinary combination of political operator and ideologue. He began his career as a cog in the machine of Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, helping his political action committees evade legal restrictions and federal fines. Helms, the most powerful reactionary in the Senate, sponsored Bolton's rise to Reagan's justice department. "John Bolton," Helms said, "is the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at Armageddon, or what the Bible describes as the final battle between good and evil."
Bolton is often called a neoconservative, but he is more their ally, implementer and agent. His roots are in Helms's Dixiecrat Republicanism, not the neocons' airy Trotskyism or Straussianism.
Bolton is a specimen of the "primitives", as Truman's secretary of state Dean Acheson called the unilateralists and McCarthyites of the early cold war. Through his political integration into the neocon apparatus, Bolton might be properly classified a neoprimitive.
At the state department, Bolton was Colin Powell's enemy within. In his first year, he forced the US withdrawal from the anti-ballistic missile treaty, destroyed a protocol on enforcing the biological weapons convention, and ousted the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. He scuttled the nuclear test ban treaty and the UN conference on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. And he was behind the renunciation of the US signature on the 1998 Rome statute creating the international criminal court. He described sending his letter notifying the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, as "the happiest moment of my government service".
Bolton's meddling in diplomacy on nonproliferation with North Korea and Iran guaranteed that the allies had no unified position and encouraged the Koreans and Iranians to play the nuclear card. Bolton's response to these crises has been to lead the charge to remove the UN head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei. In late November, Bolton denounced the Blair government and the Europeans negotiating with the Iranians as "soft" for attempting "diplomatic means".
Bolton might be granted the integrity of his primitivism, a true believer who imagines Fortress America besieged by the UN and Europeans - "Americanists find themselves surrounded by small armies of globalists, each tightly clutching a favourite new treaty or multilateralist proposal". But Bolton's coarse ideology is advanced by sophisticated campaigns of disinformation - and not only on Iraq and North Korea. His leaks of falsehoods that Syria and Cuba had developed weapons of mass destruction sparked internal revolts by intelligence professionals and the foreign service.
Like his allies the neoconservatives, for Bolton the ends justify the means. But unlike them he has no use for romantic rhetoric about the "march of freedom" and "democracy", as he demonstrated so effectively in Florida. And now he has the job he sought above all from the beginning.
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Sidney Blumenthal is former senior adviser to President Clinton and author of The Clinton Wars.
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The Enemy Within
By Sidney Blumenthal
The Guardian U.K.
How an Americanist devoted to destroying international alliances became the US envoy to the UN.
In the heat of the battle over the Florida vote after the 2000 US presidential election, a burly, mustachioed man burst into the room where the ballots for Miami-Dade County were being tabulated, like John Wayne barging into a saloon for a shoot-out. "I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count," drawled John Bolton. And those ballots from Miami-Dade were not counted.
Now that same John Bolton has been named by President Bush as the US ambassador to the UN. "If I were redoing the security council today, I'd have one permanent member because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world," Bolton once said. Lately, as undersecretary of state for arms control, he has wrecked all the nonproliferation diplomacy within his reach. Over the past two decades he has been the person most dedicated to trying to discredit the UN. George Orwell's clock of 1984 is striking 13.
The euphoria that Bush's European trip marked a conversion on the road to Brussels is fading. For it was Bush himself who decided to reward Bolton with a position where he could continue his crusade as a "convinced Americanist" against the "globalists," especially those at the UN and the EU.
Bolton made a play to become deputy secretary of state after the 2004 election, but was blocked by Condoleezza Rice, who understood that his love of bureaucratic infighting would have undermined her authority. Dick Cheney privately promised Bolton that if all else failed he would give him a job on his vice presidential staff, but that proved unnecessary when Bush nominated him to the UN post. Rice announced his appointment, symbolically demonstrating that he reports to her. But Bolton has deep support within the White House, and Rice is very much a work-in-progress. With Bolton's appointment, the empire strikes back.
Bolton is an extraordinary combination of political operator and ideologue. He began his career as a cog in the machine of Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, helping his political action committees evade legal restrictions and federal fines. Helms, the most powerful reactionary in the Senate, sponsored Bolton's rise to Reagan's justice department. "John Bolton," Helms said, "is the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at Armageddon, or what the Bible describes as the final battle between good and evil."
Bolton is often called a neoconservative, but he is more their ally, implementer and agent. His roots are in Helms's Dixiecrat Republicanism, not the neocons' airy Trotskyism or Straussianism.
Bolton is a specimen of the "primitives", as Truman's secretary of state Dean Acheson called the unilateralists and McCarthyites of the early cold war. Through his political integration into the neocon apparatus, Bolton might be properly classified a neoprimitive.
At the state department, Bolton was Colin Powell's enemy within. In his first year, he forced the US withdrawal from the anti-ballistic missile treaty, destroyed a protocol on enforcing the biological weapons convention, and ousted the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. He scuttled the nuclear test ban treaty and the UN conference on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. And he was behind the renunciation of the US signature on the 1998 Rome statute creating the international criminal court. He described sending his letter notifying the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, as "the happiest moment of my government service".
Bolton's meddling in diplomacy on nonproliferation with North Korea and Iran guaranteed that the allies had no unified position and encouraged the Koreans and Iranians to play the nuclear card. Bolton's response to these crises has been to lead the charge to remove the UN head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei. In late November, Bolton denounced the Blair government and the Europeans negotiating with the Iranians as "soft" for attempting "diplomatic means".
Bolton might be granted the integrity of his primitivism, a true believer who imagines Fortress America besieged by the UN and Europeans - "Americanists find themselves surrounded by small armies of globalists, each tightly clutching a favourite new treaty or multilateralist proposal". But Bolton's coarse ideology is advanced by sophisticated campaigns of disinformation - and not only on Iraq and North Korea. His leaks of falsehoods that Syria and Cuba had developed weapons of mass destruction sparked internal revolts by intelligence professionals and the foreign service.
Like his allies the neoconservatives, for Bolton the ends justify the means. But unlike them he has no use for romantic rhetoric about the "march of freedom" and "democracy", as he demonstrated so effectively in Florida. And now he has the job he sought above all from the beginning.
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Sidney Blumenthal is former senior adviser to President Clinton and author of The Clinton Wars.
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It's just getting worse everyday isn't it????????? 
sorry about posting this article, I see that there are many.
The Hon. John Bolton Nominated as U.S. Ambassador to the UN :
A member of the JINSA Board of Advisors - is responsible for withdrawing withdrawing the U.S. signature from the treaty on the International Criminal Court with its provisions that contradict the U.S. Constitution; withdrawing the U.S. signature from the unworkable Kyoto Treaty.
http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.htm...3,2359,650,2880
http://tinyurl.com/4npfo
A member of the JINSA Board of Advisors - is responsible for withdrawing withdrawing the U.S. signature from the treaty on the International Criminal Court with its provisions that contradict the U.S. Constitution; withdrawing the U.S. signature from the unworkable Kyoto Treaty.
http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.htm...3,2359,650,2880
http://tinyurl.com/4npfo
US: Bush Appoints Right-Wing Extremist to UN Post
Analysis By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - In a breathtaking victory for right-wing hawks, U.S. President George W. Bush has nominated Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton to become his next ambassador to the United Nations.
http://ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=27756
Analysis By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - In a breathtaking victory for right-wing hawks, U.S. President George W. Bush has nominated Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton to become his next ambassador to the United Nations.
http://ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=27756
American nightmare:
When the likes of Bolton sit in the UN and Wolfowitz presides over the World Bank we know that the "new American century project" has moved well beyond the planning phase. We had better gird ourselves, for the nightmare is just beginning.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8389.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5emug
When the likes of Bolton sit in the UN and Wolfowitz presides over the World Bank we know that the "new American century project" has moved well beyond the planning phase. We had better gird ourselves, for the nightmare is just beginning.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8389.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5emug
Video: Why America Must Stop John Bolton:
Think Bolton's the right man for the job of UN Ambassador? Take a look and decide for yourself Windows Media.
http://www.stopbolton.org/
Think Bolton's the right man for the job of UN Ambassador? Take a look and decide for yourself Windows Media.
http://www.stopbolton.org/
59 Ex-Diplomats Oppose Nominee
Challenging the White House, 59 former American diplomats are urging the Senate to reject John R. Bolton's nomination to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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Challenging the White House, 59 former American diplomats are urging the Senate to reject John R. Bolton's nomination to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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QUOTE(Snuffysmith @ Mar 28 2005, 09:08 PM)
59 Ex-Diplomats Oppose Nominee
Challenging the White House, 59 former American diplomats are urging the Senate to reject John R. Bolton's nomination to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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Challenging the White House, 59 former American diplomats are urging the Senate to reject John R. Bolton's nomination to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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This is unprecedented, but the $60 Million question is whether the Senate will pay any attention.
Letter from 59 former envoys implores the Senate not to confirm John Bolton as ambassador to the UN.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0329/dailyUpdate.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0329/dailyUpdate.html
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Democrats Set to Reject Pick for U.N.
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A unanimous vote against John R. Bolton is likely in a key Senate panel, which could doom the nomination if a Republican joins them.
By Paul Richter
Times Staff Writer
March 31 2005
WASHINGTON; Democrats are likely to vote unanimously against John R. Bolton when his nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations comes before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next week, according to Democratic and Republican lawmakers and aides.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/na...0,2825321.story
Democrats Set to Reject Pick for U.N.
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A unanimous vote against John R. Bolton is likely in a key Senate panel, which could doom the nomination if a Republican joins them.
By Paul Richter
Times Staff Writer
March 31 2005
WASHINGTON; Democrats are likely to vote unanimously against John R. Bolton when his nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations comes before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next week, according to Democratic and Republican lawmakers and aides.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/na...0,2825321.story
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/t...enation/32296_1
John Bolton: Ally of CIA linked Drugrunners
John Bolton: Ally of CIA linked Drugrunners
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050404/5049211.asp
Ex-defense, CIA heads back Bolton nomination
Ex-defense, CIA heads back Bolton nomination
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/20...ee_x.htm?csp=34
Sixty six former US officials line up behind Bush's UN nominee
Sixty six former US officials line up behind Bush's UN nominee
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Ex-Secretaries of State Endorse Bolton at U.N.
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From Times Wire Reports
April 6 2005
Five former U.S. secretaries of State urged the Senate to confirm John R. Bolton as United Nations ambassador.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/na...eadlines-nation
Ex-Secretaries of State Endorse Bolton at U.N.
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From Times Wire Reports
April 6 2005
Five former U.S. secretaries of State urged the Senate to confirm John R. Bolton as United Nations ambassador.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/na...eadlines-nation
Bush Nominee for U.N. Post Faces Hurdles at Senate Panel
By DOUGLAS JEHL and STEVEN R. WEISMAN
A former State Department official is expected to testify
in opposition to John R. Bolton's nomination as U.N.
ambassador.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/07/politics....html?th&emc=th
By DOUGLAS JEHL and STEVEN R. WEISMAN
A former State Department official is expected to testify
in opposition to John R. Bolton's nomination as U.N.
ambassador.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/07/politics....html?th&emc=th
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/99c4d488-a6d1-11d...000e2511c8.html
Republican Senator key to Bolton UN nomination
Republican Senator key to Bolton UN nomination
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/k...ambassador_wa_1
Nominee for UN ambassador under investigation
Nominee for UN ambassador under investigation
The Bolton Nomination
WHEN SHE announced his nomination as ambassador to the United Nations, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice argued that John R. Bolton would be effective because, like former ambassadors Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, he was one of "the strongest voices" in defense of American interests. There is something to that: The United States sometimes needs to stand up to rogue political appointees or gangs of autocrats at the United Nations, and the reforms the institution badly needs are unlikely to go forward without some unceremonious pushing from the U.S. ambassador.
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WHEN SHE announced his nomination as ambassador to the United Nations, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice argued that John R. Bolton would be effective because, like former ambassadors Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, he was one of "the strongest voices" in defense of American interests. There is something to that: The United States sometimes needs to stand up to rogue political appointees or gangs of autocrats at the United Nations, and the reforms the institution badly needs are unlikely to go forward without some unceremonious pushing from the U.S. ambassador.
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Bolton Faces Tough Questions on Hill
By Barry Schweid
John R. Bolton, a blunt, outspoken diplomat whose nomination as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. is encountering fierce opposition because of his past harsh criticism of the international organization, pledged Monday to "work with all" to build a stronger and more effective world body.
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By Barry Schweid
John R. Bolton, a blunt, outspoken diplomat whose nomination as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. is encountering fierce opposition because of his past harsh criticism of the international organization, pledged Monday to "work with all" to build a stronger and more effective world body.
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U.N. Nominee, Democrats Lock Horns on His Record
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Some senators say John R. Bolton has hostile views that make him unfit for the world body.
By Sonni Efron
Times Staff Writer
April 12 2005
WASHINGTON; John R. Bolton, emerging as the most controversial of President Bush's second-term nominees, battled charges by Democratic senators Monday that he had bullied intelligence analysts who disagreed with him and was unfit to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/na...0,2104426.story
U.N. Nominee, Democrats Lock Horns on His Record
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Some senators say John R. Bolton has hostile views that make him unfit for the world body.
By Sonni Efron
Times Staff Writer
April 12 2005
WASHINGTON; John R. Bolton, emerging as the most controversial of President Bush's second-term nominees, battled charges by Democratic senators Monday that he had bullied intelligence analysts who disagreed with him and was unfit to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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State Intelligence Official Blasts Bolton
By Barry Schweid
A former chief of the State Department's bureau of intelligence and research castigated John R. Bolton on Tuesday as a "kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy" who abused analysts who disagreed with his views of Cuba's weapons capabilities.
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By Barry Schweid
A former chief of the State Department's bureau of intelligence and research castigated John R. Bolton on Tuesday as a "kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy" who abused analysts who disagreed with his views of Cuba's weapons capabilities.
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