Bolton wreaks havok on the UN....

[bee]

Gee... never saw THIS coming. :sarcasm:


Bolton Already Obstructing Reform

It hasn't taken John Bolton long to undermine U.N. reform efforts. Weeks before world leaders from 170 countries are to gather in New York to discuss "the most sweeping changes at the United Nations in its 60-year history," the U.S. delegation led by Bolton has "thrown the proceedings in turmoil" with demands for a "drastic renegotiation" of the draft reform plan. Never mind that the current document is the result of "nearly a year of intensive negotiations" in which the United States "has been a regular participant" and so "has had a major impact on the document to date." Bolton has decided to introduce at the last minute more than 750 amendments that would "eliminate new pledges of foreign aid to impoverished nations scrap provisions that call for action to halt climate change and urge nuclear powers to make greater progress in dismantling their nuclear arms." Bolton was sent to the UN not to reform it, but to weaken it, and he’s already hard at work.

The article just gets worse. What a total ass.
Second article down
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=914257&ct=1352241

[atommom]

1. And he seemed like such a nice boy.

:sarcasm:

Over 750amendments? That is beyond ridiculous. He's just proving all of his detractors right.

[PurityOfEssence]

10. LOL

He's like a cross between the Tasmanian Devil and Attila the Hun. I can almost see him barging into some meeting wearing a breastplate and furs as he gnaws on a raw leg of meat.

[atommom]

25. Now that's a great visual! I can just see him pounding on the table

with a half-eaten, raw mammoth haunch.

[mwb970]

29. Yelling "the ONLY reason, the ONLY reason..." (n/t)

[PurityOfEssence]

33. That's such a great clip

It's selfishness personified. Fuck the world, we're only going to do what benefits us personally. That's the true heart of conservatism.

[calimary]

36. I could see him pounding on the table with his shoe.

Like the self-inflated pompous ASS he is. Krushchev tried that stupid-ass trick decades ago, and people snickered back then, too.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. I think it should be clear that Bolton's one purpose is to throw the UN

into chaos. It's an old CIA trick. What they do is destabilize countries, knowing that as long as the governing power has to worry about its own insurgents, it won't be able to organize dissent against the US. Bolton was never put in the UN to reach agreement diplomatically. He's there to interject chaos and slow the progress of the UN. He's buying time for someone, some organization, or some corporation. All we need to find out is who that is.

[hippiechick]

13. Excellent insight !

Spot on ! :applause:

[Nikki Stone 1]

18. Agree strongly.

Good point.

[atommom]

24. Obviously, it is. And he didn't waste any time proving all of his critics

right, either! What an embarrassment.

[Nothing Without Hope]

27. We know the neocons want to Invade Iran. By putting the UN into chaos,

they can be less effective in insisting on intervening in the drive to war or paying too miuch attention to any future neocon-staged "attacks" designed to "justify" attack of Iran.

This was a prime reason why Bush insisted on Bolton in the UN. He's a destructive and obstructive force - which is what the neocons want. They want their empire by any means it takes...as long as THEY don't have to be in the line of fire.

[The Backlash Cometh]

39. You would think that there was enough trash on Bolton right now

that a foreign paper could write about it and discredit him completely.

[Nothing Without Hope]

41. You're right. Maybe they now they have more reason to write it.

Or maybe it's already been written and suppressed in the US.

[calimary]

37. I would suggest maybe the Carlyle Group, Halliburton, or PNAC.

I think this is a MOST insightful analysis. It's like "fixing" the computer by introducing a nice virus.

[berni_mccoy]

2. How long before the U.N. throws us out?

Is that even possible?

[Clark2008]

3. I don't think they'll throw us out, but it quite possibly

could end up being the ENTIRE WORLD vs. the United States - no shit.

[nini]

34. That's what's i'm thinking..

We're going to end up being the one with sanctions against us.

[Fire Walk With Me]

35. Isolationism = patriotism. They'd have reason to go nuts on the world.

They'd finally have "proof" that the UN hates our freedom to invade sovereign nations for oil. Oops, slipped in some sarcasm there.

[ewagner]

4. I read the article

They aren't even trying to be subtle about obstructing the United Nations anymore...this is blatant sabotage

[smoogatz]

5. Typical of the Bush misadministration's appointments.

You know we were in trouble when Bush appointed a veterinarian to head the FDA.

[gratuitous]

6. Oh, and Johnny will have sooo much credibility

Being the representative from the United States will probably save Bolton from having folks tell him to get fucked right to his walrus face, but my guess is that the people who have worked so long and hard on these reforms will not take kindly to Johnny-come-lately trying to order them around.

[gasperc]

7. 750 amendments, wow

if the GOP let's us introduce one amendment we explode into joyous celebration.

Now this dickwad wants to introduce 750 amendments, I hope Randi rhodes reads them on air, deciphers thier lunacy to us

[napi21]

8. So when is THIS going to appear in the MSM?

It's great that we see this on DU, but it's just confirming what we all expected! I want to hear it on CNN, cspan, MSNBC, and ABC, CBS & NBC!

[gasperc]

9. Friday

August 2007

[wake.up.america]

12. In the blue corner Uncle Sam. In the red corner, the rest of the world

[gasperc]

22. not a fair fight

our chief executive is a moron

[SammyWinstonJack]

38. moran

#1 moran

[rrrevolution]

14. Bolton did not come to save the UN, but to destroy it . . .

Bolton understands that his role involves no diplomacy skills whatsoever. He is just the blowhard messager boy.

He will go in and blow up any negotiated reforms at the UN, as he has done offering 750 Amendments that he and Bush know will not be accepted.

Bolton will throw a fit, and state the United States will not be bound by further action of the UN -- and will not pay its dues -- until the US 750 Amendments are each studied and voted upon.

So Bolton is a stagesetter -- playing for time to gridlock the UN, while Bush plays out his real plans on the world.

Hopefully Bolton will be facing charges soon from Prosecutor Fitzgerald for his role in the Valerie Plame Outing.

How long do you think Bolton would last behind bars? You can bet he would be the recipient of a free attitude adjustment session administrated by his fellow inmates. He might learn what abuse feels like when you are not the one doling it out.

Bonus Question: What do you think his fellow inmates would nickname him?

[Kikosexy2]

15. The UN..

should just turn a "deaf ear" on him and make look like a lame duck...quacking away like Donald Duck on speed.

[rman]

16. i have been wondering what took him so long

[Canuckistanian]

17. Let's see what he's against

1. Any mention of Global Warning

2. Strike any reference to the International Crminal Court

3. No Security Council vetoes regarding ethnic cleansing, genocide or war crimes

4. No increases in foreign aid spending by member countries.

5. No nuclear test ban treaties

6. And the current section on poverty is "too long".


Seems like he wants to turn the UN into another branch of the "War on Terra" crowd.

[bee]

19. So ...

1. How do we get the press to report it?
2. How the hell do we get rid of him?
3. What the hell is WRONG with these people???

[GoBlue]

20. What if the UN had an epiphany...

and realized that they can fend for themselves without US approval.

[bee]

21. They'd throw Boltons ass out...

and who could blame them. They MUST be thinking it.

[underpants]

23. He's just an excitable boy

[Blue_In_AK]

28. Thanks for the Warren Zevon ear worm. LOL. n/t

[Nothing Without Hope]

26. We knew this was coming. Destruction of the UN is just one of his

goals.

Recommended.

[getmeouttahere]

30. Anyone ever see the film "The Lottery" when in school...

The UN should simply reject all his garbage and proceed without him. Fucking POS!

[KeepItReal]

31. Dog and Pony show before Senate confirms...then act a fool once in office

That is the standard operating procedure for Bush & Co.

[Q]

32. We should 'thank' those Democrats and Republicans...

...that let this bastard through without even trying to stop him.

[AtomicKitten]

40. Question

When the Rs are overthrown resoundingly in 2008, can the new Dem prez bounce Bolton?

[Nothing Without Hope]

42. Here are some of the things he's rejecting - from the New York Times:

I was looking through the NY Times article on this - Bolton rejected language supporting the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, disarmament as opposed to nuclear nonproliferation, many other things. Sickening. Of course, he WANTS to destroy the effectiveness of the UN, we've known that all along and so have the neocons - that's one of the reasons (all of them sinister) why they want him.

Here's the NYT article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/25/international/25nations.html

Bolton Pushes U.N. on Change as U.S. Objects to Draft Plan

By WARREN HOGE
Published: August 25, 2005

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 24 -

(snip)

The new American approach recommends scrapping more than 400 passages in the 38-page draft prepared under the General Assembly president, Jean Ping of Gabon, that was being readied for a summit conference next month after nearly a year of intensive negotiations.

(snip)

Among the changes under consideration are the substitution of the Human Rights Commission with a more powerful Human Rights Council that would no longer allow rights violators onto the panel; the creation of a Peacebuilding Commission to help countries emerging from conflict; the defining of terrorism to exclude its justification as a national resistance or liberation tool; and the empowerment of the international community to intervene in countries that fail to protect their people from genocide and ethnic cleansing.

(snip)

Among them are the International Criminal Court, which the United States says could hear frivolous actions against Americans abroad; the Kyoto Protocol on global warming; the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; and a pledge to devote 0.7 percent of gross national product to development.

The United States also objects to the document's stress on disarmament rather than nonproliferation and says it lacks clarity in assigning responsibility to a management oversight committee and fails to make clear the needs for developing nations to provide better governance so that aid can be properly directed to the needy.

(snip)

[Mythsaje]

43. This begs the question...

why the hell did they accept his credentials in the first place?

[Wizard777]

44. Bolton is a hitman.

Once he enduces the Old World Order of the UN, that America and our Allies established after WWII, to collapse. The new world order will reign Supreme over this world.

[bleever]

45. Welcome to DU, bee.

Good post; bad news.

[PinkyisBlue]

46. Naughty Chair

Bolton should be banished to the naughty chair (the "time-out" area for naughty children used by Super Nanny) and activities continue without him. If it could only be so simple!