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John Bolton: Bashing the UN

By Christy Harvey on Mar 7th, 2005 at 11:35 am

John Bolton: Bashing the UN

[President Bush today named neoconservative, unilateralist hawk John Bolton as the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Just who is John Bolton? ]

Bolton has harshly disparaged the United Nations in the past. In 1994, for example, he charged, “There’s no such thing as the United Nations,” saying that ”If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.” Four years later, he attacked the international body again, saying, “many Republicans in Congress — and perhaps a majority — not only do not care about losing the General Assembly vote but actually see it as a ‘make my day’ outcome. Indeed, once the vote is lost, and the adverse consequences predicted by the U.N.’s supporters begin to occur, this will simply provide further evidence to many why nothing more should be paid to the U.N. system.”



121 Responses to “John Bolton: Bashing the UN”

  1. hammer & nail says:

    [...] ompassionate conservatives” who won’t raise the minimum wage. Or the asshat that Bush is making U.S. Ambassdor to the U.N. A quote from the aforementioned Mr. Bolton:

    “The [...]


  2. ronjazz says:

    Continuing the noble tradition of putting a torturer in as Atty. Gen., a mass murderer as envoy to Iraq, etc. It’s the Worst Nightmare regime.


  3. dave m says:

    Wasn’t Bolton reported in the Israeli press as having said once we’re done with Iraq we’re going after Iran and Syria?


  4. eric says:

  5. Mark Albert says:

    I agree with Mr. Bolton. The U.N is useless and so many levels.


  6. Mark Albert says:

    …on so many levels.


  7. malystryx says:

    Only because the five “founding” nations have a veto. Thank god we have an international body that we can use to push our agendas, and bully other nations into doing what the “collective” wants but we better have a veto so that we can protect ourselves from the “collective” incase they try and force us with some frivolious demand. Right… The UN has been a study in hypocrisy since its founding. Really everyone is equal at the UN. We are all united under one council… ya… except for we five because we are above the law… right…


  8. kindness says:

    It is clearly an “Up Yours” from the bush43 admin to the UN.

    There is no other explaination than they are doing this on purpose. I think he is stupid but I don’t think bush is this dumb. I think it’s his way of flipping them off to their faces.

    Class & Grace, 2 things dumbya doesn’t have, even with his elite upbringing.


  9. Dave says:

    The U.N. is much like U.S. Congress and Senate. Without a veto, we are seeing just what can happen in our own legislative body. I suppose all of can agree that our own legislative body is a complete waste of time, or like one of the posters said, just plain dangerous.

    I would say that the UN has not been worthless. Longevity in the U.S. relies on the adoption of the same quality of health care infrastructure that the U.S. enjoys. This has been working. If we manage to fix the water and sewage systems of all the places that breed epidemics today, then we won’t have to take flu shots tomorrow.

    Sorry, the UN is not worthless. I’d agree to dangerous. But, as a buddy of mine put it, the president of the United States is the most powerful man on the planet, well no, and when he starts thinking like that, then he is the most dangerous man on the planet and that danger is to us not our enemies.

    The UN cannot work where those involved don’t want it to work. So the right doesn’t want it to work. Then, the right doesn’t want anything to work. They want to get back to building castles and empires like they did back when 70% of the U.S. population was farm poor, which is nothing like being urban poor.

    Our own country is being turned into a third-world nation, not by the UN, but by the right. When all things social are socialist, we are forgetting that socialist isn’t a program, it’s an economy. An economy where the goverment is in bed with business openly. Here in the U.S. we keep that a secret and pretend it isn’t so. Facists slept closer to business than any other form of economy, except maybe communism. Did we decide to be facist? It sure as hell seems like it. And, the UN had nothing to do with that.

    What is a world with an enemy? Liberals internally, and the UN externally, and all those countries on the list…. We could make fewer enemies, but in a world with no enemy, there would be no right wing.


  10. YKL says:

    Some “Nations” are MORE equal than others.


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    No offense fancesc, What was it you wanted to tell us. Please use brevity.

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  12. revdrbillybob says:

    Mr. Bolton hears voices from the Rev. Dr. Jesus, His Dad (that would be The Father) and His Lil Brother (that would The Holy Spirit). So does Dr. JimBob Dobson. Anybody have any so-called problems with hearin’ voice from The Almighty? Okay, good.


  13. piggin' henry says:

    At this point, 5 years into these fools’ leadership, this is no surprise whatsoever. None. What are they gonna do, suddenly appoint someone with integrity and honor and dignity and an ethical code and (yikes!) a functioning moral code? Please. They’d have to go to school and learn how to do it, which of course points to the essential problem – they’re fuckers, pure and simple. Anyone who knows what I’m talking about when I say they’re fuckers needs no more illustration than that, and anybody that needs more illustration, I can’t possibly tell you what you don’t know (which, curiously, is the fuckers’ dilemma).


  14. Jada says:

    Ding dong the witch is dead….death to the UN! God bless you Emperor Bush! 40 more years!



  15. Delia says:

    Aided and abetted by our prostrate press, the Bushies and their public continue to strut unaware of the fact that their policies are leaving American power in decline. The Chinese and the South Koreans own our currency. The Europeans have quietly decided to humor Georgie and then go their own way. So the Bushies have decided on a great big “fuck you” to the UN. American power is draining. He’s killing American education, amongst everything else. He’ll leave the next generation in poverty and ignorance, and it’ll be the rest of the world that picks up the pieces.
    Read this:
    http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2222


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  17. god help us says:

    God Help Us. These fuckers are absolutely nuts.


  18. Polonius says:

    This is like nominating David Duke to be ambassador to Israel. Bolton hates the UN so much he can taste it.


  19. Bolo says:

    ‘fan-tastic! ‘
    –eric

    If you’re just joining us, its 4:45 in the AM and this is perspectives…

    lol. ‘Outstanding.’


  20. Tracy Eckels says:

    I would like to see the U.N. start a trade embargo against the U.S.A. With all of our American companies so heavily invested in foreign lands it wouldn’t take long for the American corporate power structure to collapse in on itself.
    In order for America to survive, corporations would be forced to brings their investments and jobs back home. It would be the best thing this country has seen since the end of WWII.


  21. DMSerbia says:

    I hope Mr. Bolton gets elected.
    UN needs to be more efficient, more accountable, etc…
    We also need a radical cut with the global damage done by some representatives of president Clinton’s administration.
    For example, I’ve been here ‘on the ground’ in Serbia for three years. I have seen nothing but activities of the leftovers of the liberal democratic bueraucrats working on different USAID and other projects and activities. Lots of our (US taxpayers) monies have been spent, with no results. Furthermore, these liberal democrats that are all over Serbia are more interested in their personal and party agendas than in doing their job to the best interests of the US. Some examples include their hanging out and walking hand-in-hand with Milosevic’s era tycoons, involvement in suspected cases of corruption, etc.
    We need tough people like Mr. Bolton — the right person to improve the international image (credibility, honesty, integrity, accountability) of the US, which was severely damaged by clintonistas (still) running in our name all over the world.


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