Facing a hostile Senate, Bolton
quitting as ambassador to U.N.

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

President Bush, in a statement, said he was "deeply disappointed that a handful of United States senators prevented Ambassador Bolton from receiving the up or down vote he deserved in the Senate."

"They chose to obstruct his confirmation, even though he enjoys majority support in the Senate, and even though their tactics will disrupt our diplomatic work at a sensitive and important time," Bush said. "This stubborn obstructionism ill serves our country, and discourages men and women of talent from serving their nation."

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Again, the Republican-in-Chief shows that irony is now completely dead. Bolton was appointed to his post in order to obstruct the UN--opposing him was simply a vote in favor of multilateral diplomacy, which is the only way to go with foreign policy in this day and age. Why else would the President pick a man who is on record countless times as saying he wanted the UN disbanded? Why else would Bush pick a man who is widely considered by former employees to be a dictatorial tyrant? Clearly, Bolton went to New York to bully the world, subverting greatly the concept of "ambassador" in ways that continue to boggle my mind.

Good riddance to the fucker. Also, his mustache looks like shit.

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