Ding Dong, Bolton Is Gone!

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<p><a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/ap_on_re_us/bolton_resigns[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/ap_on_re_us/bolton_resigns&lt;/a&gt; !</p>

<p>Another blow to the loser Neo-Cons. Who steps down next? I got money on Cheney.</p>

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<p>This is the best news I’ve heard all day! He couldn’t have possibly been more inappropriate for that position.</p>

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<p>In his tenure on the job, what specifically has he done that makes him unqualified? To me this is yet another example of Pelosi/Reid “talking” cooperation but playing the politics card as usual.</p>

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<p>FF,</p>

<p>I think the next few years will find the shoe on the other foot a bit for you. You should sit back and enjoy the run they had, as it will be a very long time before it comes back. Gunship diplomacy has run aground. We’ll need actual dipolmats and a willingness to work together rather then tell the world “follow us” and then label them ememies if they don’t coming running.</p>

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<p>Save the partisan bull for another day.</p>

<p>The United States has done worse. A WHOLE lot worse. Remembering the cynical reign of Madeleine Notsobright should not be that hard! But, by now, we know how quickly we forget the depth of our past abyss. Of course, some seem to have teary eyes and bleeding melancholy for the days when the “true diplomats” were content about their analysis of the “price to pay” as long as we lobbed rockets from a safe distance and starved children to death.</p>

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<p>That’s what he gets for not shaving off that stupid mustache.</p>

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<p>So you think handlebar mustaches are only the in thing for Harley bikers, Weenie? :D</p>

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<p>I thought he had more the walrus type.</p>

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<p>Didn’t it have a curve up? I might have to do a google and check on this important item.</p>

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<p>yes ff, the republicans have been shining examples of bipasrtison ship for thr last few year…</p>

<p>as for bolton, to hire someone who has publically stated he dislikes the very place he is to work, gee, can’t imagine why he would be inappropriate for the job</p>

<p>kind of hard for some people to even admit Bolton was a bad choice…any more rummy defenders out there…</p>

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<p>Walrus all the way</p>

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<p>So Xiggi - should I read your comments as suggesting that you consider the Bush Administration’s actions vis a vis Iraq to have been more successful and less costly than the previous administrations’? Seems to me we’re playing catchup pretty good in the “killing Iraqis” department, while setting a new record every day in the “Americans dead”, “number of jihadists created” and “National Debt” categories. I’m pretty sure when it comes to putting together my “bonehead American policies” fantasy football team, the current administration will go pretty high in the draft.</p>

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<p>This is the best news of the day. He will look more draculean if he shaved off that stupid mustache.</p>

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<p>The issue is whether you want an effective UN or not. If you want the status quo UN (Rwanda, Darfur, Balkans, North Korea, Lebanon, Iran, oil-for-food fiasco, etc.) then you put someone in there who says all the nice PC/diplomatic things and becomes a cozy member of the club who sit and jawbone at taxpayer expense. If, however, you want a real world governing body it takes someone who is willing to say this place stinks and needs to be cleaned up. The Dems appear to prefer the status quo - corrupt ineffectiveness.</p>

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<p>Bolton was very successful in negotiating sanctions against North Korea after its nuclear test. I really did not expect any sanctions against North Korea to be considered much less passed. </p>

<p>Bolton’s job was to represent the President and he did so very well. People who opposed him did so merely as an attempt to undermine the President and solely for that reason. It’s pretty disgusing that people attempt to undermine the President when he is attempting to stop a rogue country with nuclear weapons.</p>

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<p>Oh, yes, razorsharp, nothing lets me express my HATRED FOR AMERICA like UNDERMINING THE PRESIDENT when he’s TRYING TO REIN IN A ROGUE NATION. That’s the only thing that really makes me happy. Since nothing matters to me quite so much as a chance to promote CORRUPT INEFFECTIVENESS.</p>

<p>(Doing my best CITATION X impersonation.) Seriously, you guys - do you ever stop to think that there may be actual, patriotic Americans on the opposing side of an issue before you write claptrap like post #15? Or have you just had the “anyone who opposes us is a traitor” propaganda beaten into you so deeply that you can’t even begin to see another side to any issue?</p>

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<p>The Republicans have been extremely partisan in their time at the helm. That is a fact. Therefore if Democrats do the same, oh well. Taste your own medicine.</p>

<pre><code> You can’t say Rwanda, Balkans,… U.N. These things did not happen because of the U.N. You are trying to blame it on the U.N., which is false. Bolton is a hard-line defender of neoconservatism, which the electorate voted against. Therefore he has to go.
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<p>I think other countries of the world are hoping to stop OUR rogue nation. Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest, since the death toll as a result of American action far outdoes any terrorists…tenfold, a hundredfold…it’s anyone’s guess.</p>

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<p>^ Rock on Allmusic.</p>

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<p>To those who say the Democrats were behind Bolton’s resignation are just misinformed or are peddling a partisan line.</p>

<p>Why didn’t Bolton get confirmed this year? Lincoln Chafee, a Republican Senator would not vote for him in the Foreign Relations Committee and so the nomination could not get out of committee to the Senate floor, where it might have passed.</p>