Snow On Bolton: ‘What Complaint Do You Have With A Man Who Has Been So Successful?’
Snow On Bolton: ‘What Complaint Do You Have With A Man Who Has Been So Successful?’
In yesterday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Tony Snow defended U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, saying he has been “highly successful” and “has demonstrated an ability to work effectively with other members and other U.N. delegations”:
And the real question is, what complaint do you have with a man who has been so successful in pushing through vital National Security Council resolutions through the United Nations and has been awfully effective?
Bolton will be leaving a tenure that has been characterized by ineffectiveness and U.S. estrangement from the world community. Some highlights of Bolton’s “highly successful” tenure:
– Isolated the United States from its allies on the Human Rights Council. The United States was one of four nations to oppose the creation of the Council. (170 nations voted for it.) Out of 30 or so negotiating sessions over the creation of the Council, Bolton attended just one. He also argued for permanent membership for China and Russia on the Council.
– Made stopping genocide in Sudan a low priority. In early June, Bolton skipped a U.N. Security Council mission to Sudan for a speaking engagement at the Centre for Policy Studies, a right-wing think tank in London. Most other nations, including the UK, China, and France, sent their top representatives.
– Sought to undermine the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs aimed to convert rhetoric into hard numbers on such issues as reducing global poverty and hunger. Just days after he arrived in New York after his recess appointment, Bolton released over 700 edits to the draft document for the 2005 World Summit Outcome, excising all mentions of the MDGs.
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Bolton deserves to be renditioned to Iraq where he can live out the rest of his life in the thriving Shiite fundamentalist democratic republic which he inadvertently helped President Bush father in direct response to the horrific attacks of 9/11.
9/11 + Iraq = Bush’s Islamic Fundamentalist Republic
WTF?
November 11th, 2006 at 10:10 amand the real question is: Snow, how can you be so delusional? have you no sense man, no shame, or are you just an outright liar?
November 11th, 2006 at 10:47 am.
Snow, Do you have a crush on Bolton? Is it the mustache that does it for you? Too bad about the gay marraige deal.. But then again, you guys on the right don’t actually want to marry your gay lovers.
November 11th, 2006 at 10:51 amBolton, like bush is living proof there should be life guard’s in the gene pool……Time to drain the swamp right after we flush all these pieces of crap in this administration…..Blessings…Peace
November 11th, 2006 at 11:02 amAnd scared the bejesus out of Latvia with the mustache.
November 11th, 2006 at 11:09 amTony, Tony, Tony, don’t get me started, even.
November 11th, 2006 at 11:09 amat the risk of offending my more zionist brothers, bolton’s stance vis-a-vis israel is also quite offensive to the world. to mention a recent example, his veto of a security council resolution aimed at israel for the indiscriminate killing of civilians in lebanon earned him these words from dar al hayat:
ironically, it is, of course, the jewish elephant in the room that those who oppose bolton dare not mention for risk of chants of anti-semitism, and simultaneously, it is the same elephant that those for bolton dare not mention in order to conceal their unconditional, narcissistic love for the elephant….
in fact, it is my intuition that bush’s first post-election act–after saying he would be bi-partisan–mentioning this bolton was indeed a ‘nod’ to certain elephantine base members that they need not worry about the democrats bringing some more level-headedness to world affairs where the elephant may be involved.
just an idea…
November 11th, 2006 at 11:18 amIf you count turning the entire Middle East against the US, then yeah, Bolton has done a good job. F’n douchebag.
November 11th, 2006 at 11:35 amDoes anyone have Schumer’s and Clinton’s position(s) on the Bolton nomination.
Are they what Boy George has up his sleeve?
Remember….
Schumer and Clinton Pressed To Reappoint Bolton
By RUSSELL BERMAN, Staff Reporter of the Sun
July 26, 2006
“As the Senate prepares to consider anew the nomination of John Bolton as United Nations ambassador, Senators Schumer and Clinton are facing increasing pressure from pro-Israel groups to renounce another Democratic filibuster in light of the escalating war in the Middle East.
The Foreign Relations Committee is set to hold a hearing on the nomination tomorrow, and several Democrats on the panel have voiced their unswerving opposition to Mr. Bolton’s nomination.
From New York’s senators, however, there has been nothing but silence. Mr. Schumer and Mrs. Clinton voted to block Mr. Bolton’s confirmation a year ago, but they have not declared their positions this time around.
Aides to both senators did not respond to repeated inquiries about the Bolton nomination over the last three days.
One Jewish leader may have an idea why. The president of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton Klein, said yesterday that “important friends” of Mr. Schumer and Mrs. Clinton have confided to him that the senators are “seriously reconsidering” their position on Mr. Bolton. Mr. Klein, in a telephone interview, would not disclose the names of the friends, saying they had not given him permission to do so.”
http://www.nysun.com/article/36756
November 11th, 2006 at 11:39 am…or are you just an outright liar?
Comment by pluege
That’s the one…
Top of his class at Fox “News.” He’s doing exactly what this administration hired him to do.
November 11th, 2006 at 11:56 amGoods - If Hil decides to back Bolt-on, she’s toast. She knows that. Can you link to the quote by Mr. Klein?
November 11th, 2006 at 11:57 amgoods,
a friendly warning: the subject of israeli zionism, their powerful special interest groups, and their tremendous influence in the democratic party and in democratic/progressive thinktanks are rather taboo subjects for discussion in public fora lest one be considered an anti-semite.
this fight will be fought over, as the original post indicates, anything BUT such taboo subjects.
you will see some interesting theatre if you watch closely over the next month or so. no one will say what they mean, deals will be made, scapegoating, surrealism, denials, deafening silence…the delicate dance over the burning coals has begun.
November 11th, 2006 at 12:04 pmj,
Just try not to get banned again, ok? Your comments are always so informative.
November 11th, 2006 at 12:09 pmreminder to Snow: this is a man who said the institution and its occupants were irrelevant… Bolton had no place being sneak-installed in there…
November 11th, 2006 at 12:18 pmjames r - absolutely. Most of the real problems in the middle east point right back to 1948. But to state that is ruin for any publicly elected official. I don’t give a hoot who thinks I’m anti-Semetic, facts are facts when it comes to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Arab families. The root cause of most of the hatred of the US stems from our blind obescience to Israel.
November 11th, 2006 at 12:26 pmI don’t care how much money gets privately donated to the state of Israel, our tax dollars shouldn’t line their pockets as well.
z,
i am with you on that one… that is why i am leaving this thread where it sits and going out for a coffee :)
thanks for your kind words…
November 11th, 2006 at 12:33 pm#11, #12
Let’s try hard for just a nanosecond to imagine that Bush is not insane, petulant, and incompetent.
Ok!
That was hard.
We better try again……
OK!
Well….forget about it….something is still weird with the re-nomination of Bolton.
Bolton *might* have some support which will be packaged for consumption by the Carville wing of the DNC as bipartisonship.
Remember…..
Schumer Says Bolton Won’t Face Filibuster
By RUSSELL BERMAN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
July 31, 2006
A Democratic filibuster of John Bolton’s nomination as United Nations ambassador is “unlikely,” Senator Schumer said yesterday.
Mr. Schumer supported an effort last year to block Mr. Bolton’s nomination from gaining a full Senate vote, but he confirmed that he is considering changing his position.
New York’s senior senator said he was weighing Mr. Bolton’s backing of Israel against his unwillingness to work with other countries at the United Nations. “There’s a good part of Bolton. He’s been a staunch and very good defender of Israel,” Mr. Schumer said on CNN’s “Late Edition.” “There’s a bad part of Bolton. He seems to have a ‘go it alone’ attitude at a time when we need the nations of the world on our side. We’ve seen that in Iran and North Korea.”
Mr. Schumer said he had not made a final decision on which way to vote and that a lot of Democrats were also contemplating their position. The Democrats would need the support of 41 of their 45 members in the Senate to block Mr. Bolton’s nomination. Three Democrats crossed over to oppose a filibuster last year, meaning that a shift of even a few senators would signal Mr. Bolton’s confirmation. “I think that if you count the votes, a filibuster is unlikely,” Mr. Schumer said.
[snip]
Both Mr. Schumer and Mrs. Clinton have made statements strongly supporting Israel and the Bush administration’s position on the Israel- Hezbollah war, and they have faced increasing pressure from Jewish groups to show their backing by voting to confirm Mr. Bolton. The Senate will have a recess next month, and a vote could take place in September.
November 11th, 2006 at 12:39 pmI can tell you why. Because everything this current Administration trys to overhaul turns into an utter disaster.
Boltons job, a I understand it, is mainly to ‘overhaul’ the UN, as Norquist wants to drown the government while enriching himself
We need only look at Halliburton/Bechtel/KBR and the screw job privatization really is for the taxpyer.. The Donut Hole, The war profiteering, the failure to find Osama, the cherry picked intelligence.
It is because he is part of the larger problem, Bolton is part o the group or really realy bad ideas..Capice?
November 11th, 2006 at 12:55 pmNaw, you wouldn’t be anti-semitic for that opinion, and if somebody does try to use that hate-bait remind them that the Cheney/Netanyahu was for a ‘Clean Break’ [1996] between Israel and America.
I don’t know about yall but I am really tired of the skirmishes and wars over the same things over and over. They never seem to learn.
November 11th, 2006 at 1:10 pmThey simply cannot put down their past history and religion long enough to see what they have become — each other.
Snow on Bolton:
With all the closeted GOP gay revelations recently, it’s not too far a stretch.
Now I have to go to the bar, and drink until that image is gone from my head!
November 11th, 2006 at 1:11 pmNovember 11th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Nice work pointing out his flaws. Too bad you weren’t there at the press conference to answer Snow’s question.
November 11th, 2006 at 1:33 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
#18, Dog_named_Boo: We need only look at Halliburton/Bechtel/KBR and the screw job privatization really is for the taxpyer
In addition to stuffing the coffers of the Halliburton/Bechtel/KBR (i.e. companies that HATE big government but LOVE big government tax dollars), the Bush admin in direct response to the horrific attacks of 9/11, inadvertently fathered a Shiite fundamentalist democracy in Iraq which chants “Death to Israel”, “Death to America” and has a long long history of being pro-axis of evil (Iran) and pro-Hezbollah.
Al Dawa and the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq are loving the fact that Bush financed their decades old dream of transforming Iraq into a Shiite fundamentalist republic.
Bush’s $400 billion gift to the Al Dawa and the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq is one that is going to keep hurting Americans for a long long time.
November 11th, 2006 at 1:43 pmWe are oft to blame in this
What? Tony Snow is trying to convince the American people that John Bolton has a great chance to be nominated as our U.N. Ambassador? Is Snow on crystal meths? If we believe that then we’re the one on meths. I’m too stupefied to respond. So here’s something that should refocus all our thoughts about Snow’s “Snow Job.â€
We are oft to blame in this—‘Tis too much proved. –that with devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.
from the movie, “V for Vendetta.â€
November 11th, 2006 at 1:51 pmIt doesn’t matter what Tony the Flautist says. Bolton’s nomination is “going nowhere.” (Biden, ascending chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
Isn’t it great to be the majority?
November 11th, 2006 at 1:53 pm#25: It sure is, pally.
November 11th, 2006 at 1:58 pmgeez, when will we ever get rid of these stupid, old, ugly, white men?
November 11th, 2006 at 2:17 pmDear Progs and Progettes - Here are a few suggestions to address the Millenium Development Agenda - I mean, GOALS. Instead of punishing the United States and other successful Western economies, WHY don’t we encourage the the many poverty stricken nations to throw out their “culture of corruption” governments and adopt a capitalist approach. Encouragement can take monetary form - when Third World despots can’t get their grubby hands on the $$, economic and agricultural advisory groups, assistance with infrastructure and private property rights. Gee, I think the new spirit of bi-partisanship might be working….
Thank you to all our veterans!
November 11th, 2006 at 2:37 pmTony Snow: the pot calling the kettle black. To paraphrase Bolton:
“Americans are a practical people.”
Yep…and they’ve practically run your ass out of th UN!
November 11th, 2006 at 3:12 pm– Made stopping genocide in Sudan a low priority.
In all fairness, he didn’t make it low priority, he just kept it there.
November 11th, 2006 at 3:22 pmMay I give you a bi-partisan suggestion?
No.
November 11th, 2006 at 3:28 pmamong the most offensive tactics of bolton, not listed in the three by tp, is giving cover to the bush war-crimes committed throughout the planet. read this:
November 11th, 2006 at 3:38 pmThe operative word in relation to Bolton is “awfully.”
November 11th, 2006 at 3:45 pmOf course Snow is delusional. This is the primary job requirement for all members of the Bush administration. Iraq, Katrina … the list of situations in which they have been delusional goes on …
#29. mighty aphrodite. I’d like to thank you and piggyback on your post. It is funny to think that many here believe conservatives are intolerant and hateful. Maybe they should read their own posts. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been called a Nazi, nat, troll, CRAZY CHRISTIAN, idiot, and my favorite turd polisher. It would be easier for me to consider the charges of conservative intolerance and hate if I didn’t have to spend so much of my time covering my hears.
November 11th, 2006 at 3:45 pmamong the most offensive tactics of bolton, not listed in the three by tp, is bolton’s violation of the arm’s embargo in somalia by providing aid to somali warlords to fight the islamic coalition in mogadishu.
bolton lacks any credibility in the world community when he chastises a country for breaking an arm’s embargo one day and the state department comes out the next and leaks that the usa is supporting somali warlords, in opposition of an existing embargo.
our good ambassador also supplied arms to the haitians, in violation of the haitian arms embargo whilst he was the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs.
November 11th, 2006 at 4:05 pmand the real question is: Snow, how can you be so delusional? have you no sense man, no shame, or are you just an outright liar?
.
Comment by pluege — November 11, 2006 @ 10:47 am
Sorry I’m late with this. I vote for #2, Outright liar = Tony Snowjob
November 11th, 2006 at 4:13 pmIt would be easier for me to consider the charges of conservative intolerance and hate if I didn’t have to spend so much of my time covering my hears.
Comment by paul
The names you were called are tame compared to what conservatives have dished out these last six years.
“Turd pusher” doesn’t compare with “terrorist-supporters,” and “nazi” doesn’t compare to “America-hating traitors,” so cry me a river.
If you try to push conservative spin here, expect to get called on it. We aren’t trying to push easily debunked spin on whatever wingnut blog you frequent, so toughen up, or get lost.
November 11th, 2006 at 4:34 pmmighty aphrodite, #28 Thank you to all our veterans!
Why do you still spit in the face of all our veterans?
In case you have not heard, the US military just stuck a few of its own daggers in the back of Field Marshall von Rumsfeld.
Btw…
In direct response to the horrific attacks of 9/11, the Bush admin with your support inadvertently fathered a burgeoning Shiite fundamentalist democracy in Iraq.
As of right now, several tens of thousands of lives and limbs have been destroyed and lost and $400 billion has been spent.
How many more oceans of blood and treasure must be spent for the pro-Hezbollah, `Death to America’ chanting, fundamentalist Islamic democratic republic in Iraq?
November 11th, 2006 at 4:40 pmThe US has vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution condemning an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip that killed 19 Palestinian civilians.
John Bolton, the US ambassador to the UN, described the text as “unbalanced” and “biased against Israel and politically motivated”.
He added that it did not provide an “even-handed characterisation” of the Israeli shelling of the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun that killed the 19 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
The text of the resolution, which was sponsored by Arab states, also condemned the firing of rockets by Palestinian fighters into Israel.
Ten of the council’s 15 members voted in favour and four -Britain, Denmark, Japan and Slovakia - abstained.
AMERICA YOU ARE OUT OF CONTROL
November 11th, 2006 at 4:40 pmtobey,
the answer is ‘yes’.
the text, bolton states, is ‘biased against israel’. enough said.
the guardian covered the story of the massacre:
proving once again, that they hate us for our freedom, and our coincidental veto of such resolutions, has nothing to do with it.
and in other news, up has been shown to down; and down is indeed up….
November 11th, 2006 at 5:01 pmDear Paul - You’re welcome!!! You’d think that the intolerance of the Left would grate on their collective tolerance. These folks are soooo argumentative (in a fun and often amusing way!) that if you said you thought their mother was pretty, they’d tell you what an ugly skank she was - just to be argumentative. That collective character defect allows me to have a touch of pity for them…..
Have a great week-end!
November 11th, 2006 at 5:02 pmMA is the last person on the planet who should be insinuating anyone here is racist.
Her Touting of ACORN issues/fraud in Missouri shows as thinkly veiled racism as I have ever seen. Yes, there may be a miniscule percentage of fraudulent cases, but the overall ACORN effort is to get poor and minority peoples to vote. The effort by Republicans was and is to thwart ANY effort to help minorities. Blatant RACISM!
Also, from comments a few months ago regarding residents of San Y’Sidro, the picture becomes more complete.
It only believes that persons of its own class, finance, and rank deserve a voice or a vote. Well, we don’t and shouldn’t have a caste system here
When you see ***********, think JINGOIST; think RACIST.
November 11th, 2006 at 5:11 pm#42 - “MA is the last person on the planet who should be insinuating anyone here is racist.
Her Touting of ACORN issues/fraud in Missouri shows as thinkly veiled racism as I have ever seen…. ” Comment by Eargy Earp
*******Dear E. Earp - I apologize if you thought I was insinuating I thought RAFSP was a racist. I insinuated nothing. I made a CLEAR and DEFINITE assignment of the term “racist” about Repubs are the Fear and Smear Party.
I could care LESS the colour of ACORN activists or the community they purport to serve. I can’t stand conservative scammers, evangelical scammers or progressive scammers - apparently you make allowances for peoples dishonesty based on their viewpoint…..VERY tolerant of YOU!!!
November 11th, 2006 at 5:46 pm#7 - From your “unimpeachable” source , dar al hayat:
“George Bush and Ehud Olmert are far removed from danger. They order the killing of Lebanese civilians and refuse to agree to a ceasefire. What sort of creatures are they by the standards of the 21st century? If they are human beings, then they must be two criminals who make war a means to exercise barbarism.”
Dear James - I suppose if the terrorist “creatures” of Hezbollah didn’t hide their weapon caches among the civilian population, there MIGHT be a better than average chance fewer civilians would be killed…And of course having the poor Lebanese people victimized by Hezbollah rogues, with the backing of Iran & Syria IS perfectly acceptable to you?? I’m sure neither country is REALLY interested in annihilating Israel - or so I hear….
Your “reference” site reminds me of the tripe played on Arabic television to brain wash the vulnerable small children of the Arab world. Teaching those innocents that Jews are not human and are really pigs and monkeys is child abuse of a most hideous nature….
Thank you for once again reiterating a growing movement in prog political circles - the “understanding and embracing” of those wishing to bring about another Holocaust. Democrat Jews who are not self-hating may wish to re-examine their committment to the Democrat Party.
November 11th, 2006 at 8:38 pmThe Zionist problem doesn’t get better after January, even if Bolton does get cut off. We need to be thinking about the problems that will entail with Pelosi as Speaker. I had no idea she was such a self-admitted Zionista until I read the following piece. Sheesh!!!
Click here for the rest of the article.
November 11th, 2006 at 8:43 pmDear DogBoo- Quoting a Taki article in American Conservative Mag when discussing American/Israeli relations is like relying Senator Byrd for a discussion on Blacks, or Ted Kennedy to teach rescue-swimming. Please try again….
November 11th, 2006 at 8:45 pmm_a, can it why dontcha - your comments are ludicrous
November 11th, 2006 at 8:47 pmWHY don’t we encourage the the many poverty stricken nations to throw out their “culture of corruption†governments?
Comment by Mighty Hypocrite
Considering the billions and weapons that went missing in Iraq and Halliburton’s repeated overbilling, etc., the current Bush administration is hardly in the position to encourage other countries to throw their culture of corruption. As usual, your hypocrisy shows.
November 11th, 2006 at 10:17 pmis like relying Senator Byrd for a discussion on Blacks, or Ted Kennedy to teach rescue-swimming. Please try again….
Comment by mighty hypocrite
How about asking Laura Bush about obeying stop signs, and her husband and Cheney about accountability in government?
November 11th, 2006 at 10:47 pmNo! it’s time for the World to start acting.
It’s time for the World to tell the US to take its nose out of other nations politics. Over the last 60 years the US has proved that it cannot be trusted. The US is the World bully, not the World policeman. With its preempt approach, the US is a threat to North Korea,Iran,Venezuela,Cuba etc. Hasn’t the US had enough blood in the Middle-East. The US has only ever supported regimes they could influence and control regardless of democracy or human rights.
It’s time for the World to stand up to the US.Eventully China will rein-in US aggression and bullying, because it appears that Europe will not team up to do the job.
The UN was set up to be world policeman, but the US has managed to manipulate the UN for its own agender. When the US disagrees with the UN it uses it veto power or goes unilaterally.
The best the US can do for world stability is to concentrate on its own domestic problems, of which there are many, and keep its nose out of other sovereign nations.
Its time to stand up to the terrorist state, before they find anther excuse to invade or topple another nation and drag the WILLING with them.
November 12th, 2006 at 7:27 amIn other words: Bolton is the epitome of American-Anglo-Saxon-Israeli ‘diplomatic’ strategy since the end of WWII. There is no democracy in the UN, there is no international justice whatsoever, the Geneva conventions are not the only ones stepped on like they’re burning toilet paper. Corporations get all the rights, ordinary people get all the duties, thanks to money and the greed of so-called politicians. Many a time these ‘politicians’ knowingly deceive the public for pure personal gain while happily keeping up appearances. Evil has many faces. Some do evil because they ‘think’ everybody’s doing it, some do evil out of fear, some do evil because they ‘think’ it gives them profit but most evil is still done by good men and women who stood by and did nothing. In a just world, Bush, Bolton and all historical epitomes of this American-Anglo-Saxon-Israeli ‘diplomatic’ strategy should’ve already been expelled by the wise public, but thanks to the strategy, there is no such thing.
November 12th, 2006 at 8:53 amTwo words Tony Snow - “miserable failure”. Baybe we should Google bomb Tony Snow with the term “full of crap”.
November 12th, 2006 at 11:50 amsnow + bolton = 0
November 12th, 2006 at 8:30 pmHe is a neo-conservative hack like Tony McSnowjob the White House spokesliar. Wothless mouthpieces.
November 12th, 2006 at 9:24 pmsnow is clearly not taking his medications again.
November 18th, 2006 at 9:37 ammover new york
Good post. I am looking into these issues on my blog.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:14 am