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BOLTON
RESIGNS!! (MaximsNews.com,
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UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com,
UN/ - 4 December 2006 -- U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton
resigned this morning and his resignation was
accepted by President Bush according to a
statement issued by the White House today.
Bolton is expected to step down when his recess
appoint ends shortly.
Ambassador
Bolton’s nomination had been stalled in the
U.S.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee for over a
year because it was blocked by Democratic
Senators and a few key Republican Senators
including Sen. Lincoln Chafee of
Rhode Island
.
Bolton
was given a temporary appointment by president
Bush in August, 2005 when the U.S. Congress was
in recess and the appointment is due to expire
when the Congress adjourns soon.
The
Bush Administration had re-submitted Bolton’s
nomination in November but since the Democratic
Party won the November 7 elections his chances
for confirmation were derailed and the incoming
chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, Sen. Joe Biden of
Delaware
, said he strongly opposed
Bolton
’s nomination.
Historian
and MaximsNews Columnist Stephen
Schlesinger stated in an earlier column Bolton
Must Go!:
"Bolton
has never been a diplomat — which, among his
supporters, is regarded as a mark of honor. He
hails from the Republican Party's extreme
conservative wing. Bush chose him to please the
most fervent right-wingers in his
administration, most of whom either scorn or
want to terminate the United Nations.
Bolton
has for a long time been an excessive and
unrestrained critic of the U.N.
Among
his infamous utterances: that it wouldn't make a
difference if 10 stories were sliced off the
U.N. building; that the U.S. has no obligation
to pay its dues to the organization; that the
Security Council should be reduced to one
member, namely the U.S.
And,
perhaps his most notable sally, that
"there's no such thing as the United
Nations."
His
record since taking over as ambassador in August
2005 has shown that his adversarial stance
toward the institution has not softened.
In
his first month as U.N. envoy, he gleefully
undermined the most comprehensive reform
movement in U.N. history by insisting on the
adoption of hundreds of irrelevant amendments
that were never going to be accepted by the
General Assembly.
Later,
when the U.N. did agree on one important change
— creating a new, reformed Human Rights
Council — he argued furiously against it,
rallied just three other nations to the cause
(out of 191) and eventually saw the U.S. go down
to a humiliating defeat.
Then
he turned around and said he would work with the
council and help it financially but not join it.
Which left Washington looking not just like a
loser, but a whiny one at that.
As
Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) remarked, Bolton
was not just a bully, but an
"ineffective" one."
SEE:
Bolton
Must Go!! by Stephen Schlesinger,
MaximsNews.com, U.N. 16 September 2006.
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