AP: White House confirms Khalilzad is Bush's choice for U.N. ambassador

[Eugene]

White House confirms Khalilzad is Bush's choice for U.N. ambassador

The Associated Press
Published: January 8, 2007

WASHINGTON: The White House made it official Monday: President George W. Bush
will nominate Zalmay Khalilzad to be the U.S. envoy to the United Nations and
Ryan Crocker to replace him as U.S. ambassador to Iraq.

Both changes were disclosed in news reports last week.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice planned to announce the changes later Monday,
White House spokesman Tony Snow said.

Khalilzad, who is Afghan-born, has also served as ambassador to Afghanistan. He will
replace John Bolton, who could not win Senate confirmation and resigned last month
as his temporary appointment as U.N. ambassador was about to expire.

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Full article: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/08/america/NA-GEN-US-UN-Envoy.php

[rodeodance]

1. Khalilzad was Sunni-----and i have heard he irritated Malike

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. Ah, a reward for his valuable

work in

1. Arming OBL in the 80's and training Al Quiada
2. helping cover up 9/11 planning
3. Afghanistan
4. Iraq

I can see why we would want him at the UN

[never cry wolf]

3. As well as recognition for one of the PNAC's founders

These creeps won't ever go away.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. damn, how could I have overlooked that one

thanks.

[never cry wolf]

6. Don't worry. You and 300M missed it

though I am sure you forgot the :sarcastic: icon

[PatGund]

5. Gee....

Wouldn't Rep. Virgil Goode's policial base find Khalilzad, an Afgan Muslim and immigrant to the US, MORE offensive than native-born Rep. Keith Ellison?

I would expect, of course, Rep. Goode's office to release a statement immediately protesting Khalilzad's appointment as UN ambassador as another case of opening the floodgates into wholesale Muslim immigration into the US, resulting in the undermining of the values this country was founded on.

Still waiting for that statement......

(crickets chirping)