Surprise Surprise John Bolton is being a POS

[bonzotex]

Just in from Talking Points Memo:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_08_21.php#006345

Recess-appointed U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton is doing exactly what his critics expected of him. He is sticking it to the world. . .hard and nasty.

I received this morning a leaked copy of U.S. comments on the draft document for the Millennium Summit in September. I have been informed that these are John Bolton's personal draft modification suggestions that appear on the document.

Here is the document, adobe format, but it is a very large file. (Dial-up readers be careful.)

These suggested revisions are leaps and bounds more offensive, regressive, short-sighted, and dismissive of others than America's "bad guy" role in the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development.

There's more, check it out....

Can anyone possibly be surprised that the worst President ever would demand we have the worst UN Ambassador ever? The United States is dead in the water as far as international relations until we get rid of this Bozo administration and all the greedy criminals that enable it.

[Nikki Stone 1]

1. Any samples you can quote?

Thanks

[Dora]

2. Follow the link - it takes you to TPM, not a pdf. n/t

[Nikki Stone 1]

4. Thanks

In short, the document does the following:

~ knocks out entirely the Millennium Development Goals

~ continues to undermine collective efforts against climate change

~ knocks out targets and timetables for all goals and objectives

~ guts any efforts toward further disarmament objectives and focuses exclusively on non-proliferation, while both had always been important objectives in the past

~ strikes the section that states that countries will use force only as last resort

~ and oddly, strikes out the need to establish a legal definition of terrorism, which the Bush administration has previously stated is a requirement before proceeding towards a U.N. Convention on Terorrism.

[bonzotex]

5. the author of that post on TPM is a good source ...

for all thing "Bolton" check out his blog, The Washington Note too.

[sepia_steel]

3. he wants the UN dead

and john Bolton is the perfect asshole to carry it out.

[bonzotex]

6. what I don't understand is why the UN is such a bad thing to ...

...the Repukes. Sure the UN has problems can be exasperating. Yeah I know the PNAC people want to build an American empire without pesky international laws. Yeah, the UN provides a forum for really despicable Nations to pontificate, but goddamn, it's a damn good idea and the UN really has made a positive difference in the world. If it didn't exist we'd have to create it. Push comes to shove, the US has always been able to co-opt or go around the UN when we needed to.

There's not a rational reason I can see for Bush to keep saying "fuck you" to everybody else in the world. Yes I know he's irrational but his political wunderkind handlers know better, don't they?

This is just more of Bush and the neocons acting like psychotic children and having to try and break every single thing they touch. They really do behave as if there will never be any consequences for their actions. That really, really scares me.