John Bolton

The nomination of John Bolton to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations left me speechless. I will rely on Jude Wanniski, a former member of American Enterprise Institute to tell us what it means that John Bolton, a Bully Diplomat is the Bush administration's choice.

As I was driving back to the office at mid-day today, I heard a news report that President Bush had nominated John Bolton to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. My heart skipped a beat and I could feel my blood pressure climb through the roof. John Bolton. Ugh. This is the bottom of the barrel. It's almost impossible to imagine the President nominating anyone worse than Bolton, a certified bully who has single-handedly done more to poison our relations with China, North Korea and Iran than any other bureaucrat in the Bush Administration. He is one of Richard Perle's principle henchman in the Neo-Con Cabal to conquer the world with U.S. military might. He is a master of disinformation, by which I mean he knows how to use falsehoods and deceit to promote the objectives of his masters in the Cabal.

Bolton has come out of hiding:

In the Clinton years, Bolton cooled his heels at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., AEI being the think-tank of the Military-Industrial Complex and the hangout of Richard Perle. I know, because I hung out at AEI during the Cold War, and I know how it all works. AEI would have vanished a long time ago, I believe, if it were not for the generosity of major corporations – those that make things to blow up other parts of the world or those who rebuild them after they have been leveled, all with taxpayer dollars.

There is no money to be made with diplomacy:

At the Lisbon conference over the weekend, the paper I presented was one I wrote in 1995, which was never published, because it was commissioned by my old neo-con pals because they loved the title, "An American Empire." It was supposed to run in an early edition of Rupert Murdoch's new political magazine, The Weekly Standard, but the editors of the magazine were horrified at the essay I submitted. It came down to the idea that in a world at war, force should be backed by the opportunity for diplomacy, but in a world at peace, should trouble arise, diplomacy should be backed by the threat of force. There is not much business there for a military-industrial complex, so Bill Kristol, who had commissioned the piece, had his secretary call to say they could not use it.

Bolton is an example of "crazy" ideologues being supported by war profiteers. Surprise Surprise!!!