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Posted on 03/07/2005 1:22:48 PM PST by quidnunc
The choice of John Bolton as the next US ambassador to the United Nations underlines the growing sense of vindication in the White House and among neo-conservative circles in Washington over the decision to go to war in Iraq.
Mr Bolton was the most conspicuous hawk in Colin Powell's State Department during the first Bush term, an unflinching advocate of military action against Iraq, a hardliner on Iran and North Korea and, quite often, a critic of multilateral diplomacy.
Ever since the Iraqi elections, White House officials say they have sensed a shift in public mood over the military intervention. Opinion polls have seen a sharp increase in American optimism over Iraq since the January 30 elections.
The democracy protests in Lebanon and the prospect of a Syrian withdrawal, Egypt's decision to hold multi-party presidential elections and the progress towards a Middle East peace settlement have also changed the tone of the debate in the US. Advocates of the war are bragging, critics are on the defensive and the threshold of 1,500 American war dead was passed last week without much notice paid.
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When Condoleezza Rice took over as secretary of state at the beginning of the year, Mr Bolton's departure from the State Department was seen by some as evidence the Bush administration was seeking to adopt a less ideological approach to foreign policy. But the diplomatic line-up, exemplified by the nomination of Mr Bolton, reflects an administration feeling renewed confidence about the president's “liberty doctrine”.
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Must suck these days to be either a Democrat or an European.
J. Bolton only reminds me of one thing: CUBA. He has the voice that I and my family here in Miami, have been waiting to hear for years on the subject of Cuba. Bush, once again you pleasantly surprise me.
It always sucks to be either a dem or euro-weenie.
http://www.grip.org/bdg/g1894.htmlWe do not support measures that prohibit civilian possession of small arms. This is outside the mandate for this Conference set forth in UNGA Resolution 54/54V. We agree with the recommendation of the 1999 UN Panel of Governmental Experts that laws and procedures governing the possession of small arms by civilians are properly left to individual member states. The United States will not join consensus on a final document that contains measures abrogating the Constitutional right to bear arms.
"The United States will not join consensus on a final document that contains measures abrogating the Constitutional right to bear arms."
Dude, sign this guy up. Now!
It really is interesting that the EU lefties think we've been vindicated. I thought they were too far gone for that. On the other hand, they are lefties and we know how easy it is for lefties to flip-flop, particuarly when it doesn't cost them anything to do so.
Good on Bush!!! Man the guys over at DU must be ready to slit their wrists!!! Ha!
John Bolton told the UN "Nyet" on the small arms treaty.
Gotta love it. These days, anything that pisses off Europe makes me happy!
President Bush just gets better every day. Reagan was never this good.
Looks like happy times for you ahead. ;-o
MMMMMWWAAAAA-HAAAA-HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
"Must suck these days to be either a Democrat or an European"
It should. They all have acted like punks and 'ho's and they deserve to have their life suck for awhile.
I'm imagining Mel Gibson's remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington with colaboration from Homer Simpson.
You have a VERY well developed sense of humor. LOL!
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Disarming America has always been one of the UN's major goals.
Disarming America has always been one of the UN's major goals.
Nonsense.
Disarming Americans has been their goal.
The UN has always been in favor of armed governments, and they'd be perfectly happy with the US retaining it's military capacity if they could get it under proper political control.
That involves, though, destroying the political power of Jacksonian America.
And they see gun control as one of their principle tools in that process.
Not because they want to get rid of guns, but because they want to get rid of gun owners.
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Over at The Nation, they're calling this "Bush gives UN the finger."