This should break the Senates Foreign Relation Committee deadlock about the John Bolton nomination.
Newsweek reports:
Colin Powell plainly didn’t like what he was hearing. At a meeting in London in November 2003, his counterpart, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, was complaining to Powell about John Bolton, according to a former Bush administration official who was there. Straw told the then Secretary of State that Bolton, Powell’s under secretary for arms control, was making it impossible to reach allied agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. Powell turned to an aide and said, "Get a different view on [the Iranian problem]. Bolton is being too tough."
The very best US puppy Jack Straw had to intervened against Bolton to get a solution on Iran,
Perhaps the most dramatic instance took place early in the U.S.-British talks in 2003 to force Libya to surrender its nuclear program, NEWSWEEK has learned. The Libya deal succeeded only after British officials "at the highest level" persuaded the White House to keep Bolton off the negotiating team. A crucial issue, according to sources involved in the affair, was Muammar Kaddafi’s demand that if Libya abandoned its WMD program, the U.S. in turn would drop its goal of regime change. But Bolton was unwilling to support this compromise. The White House agreed to keep Bolton "out of the loop," as one source puts it.
and the puddle himself had to bark out loud to keep Bolton away from messing up the successful negations with Lybia. The only success this administration had on WMD proliferation so far.
The Bolton case should now finally move away from the fruitless discussion about bullying subordinates – an issue that can not be a serious ground for Republicans to deny Bush their consent on the nomination. But the heavyhanded attempts to mess up foreign relation policy are very good reason. Additionaly
the committee is examining fresh allegations that Bolton misused or hyped flawed intelligence against Syria, China and Iran.
Add to this the already proven Bolton WMD lies on Iraq and Cuba and you can tell that no future word this man may utter would be taken as serious fact or likely intelligence by friends or foes.
Bolton is a uncontrollable firebrand who throws lighted matches at any gas station he passes. He can not be trusted to run any responsible foreign relations position.
The grownup Republicans in the SFRC must now ask Bolton to step away from the UN job.
They should offer him an ambassadorship in McMurdo. Thinking again – the possible consequences of accelerated glacier melting should raise serious concerns on even that nomination.