The wit and whimsy of John R. Bolton

A few quotes from the newspaper archives. They may help you sleep better if, by some miracle, Mr. Bolton should come to represent us at the United Nations.

Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), March 14, 1999:
"It's not the kind of decisive striking you would need" to promote "the preferred way to get rid of him, the 'ambitious colonel' route.” -- John Bolton, former Bush administration official, now senior vice president of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington

The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec), August 2, 2000:
''The [Canadian] Chretien government has gone out of its way to stick pins in the U.S.... Moral posturing only goes so far.” -- John Bolton, foreign affairs specialist who advised the Bush campaign on its national security policy platform

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 10, 2000:
"I'm with the Bush-Cheney team and I'm here to stop the vote." -- John Bolton, GOP attorney (Response by court administrator, Terre Cass: “Do you have a copy of the order? And he said, 'No, I don't.' He was very rude.")

The Boston Herald, December 12, 2000:
"You cannot psychoanalyze pieces of paper." -- John Bolton, GOP operative, on Florida recount

The Irish Times, December 18, 2000:
"We would have to pose the stark question: are you with us or with them?" -- Defence specialist John Bolton on future relations with Britain because of the [European defence force] proposals

The Ottawa Citizen, December 28, 2000:
"A lot of [Canadian foreign affairs minister] Axworthy's initiatives are poorly disguised anti-Americanism." -- John Bolton

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Comments

[Tom]

John Bolton at the UN is Like Michael Jackson, heading up a watch group for pedophiles.

[Eve]

Did anyone else catch DUHbya's comment in last night's address to the public, that he supported Bolton because the "UN is in need of reform"? - This is a clear statement of the intentions behind the neocons push to put Bolton in. He'll "reform" the UN - (like everything else is reformed - with a nuke)

[jeff f l]

why is this razzberry of a nominee taken seriously even for a minute?

[j whyte]

because cheney says so. because cheney says so. because cheney says so...and he's PNAC.

[a.m.]

...because the Daily Show said GWB has really big balls...

[alex]

as a canadian, i get a huge kick out of bolton's comments...maybe we're not so much "anti-american" as we are "refusing to let right-wing nuts turn us into american"...thats not who we are...

[Richard White]

What happened to the 43 million dollars that President Bush gave to the Taliban in May of 2001?
Check out the Washington Post. Why did Pres. Bush give this money gift to the Taliban? Why are we spending so much money in that war when we have so many of our citizens without health care?
Wolofowitz said that Iraq citizens would welcome our soldiers when we invaded Iraq?

[Sean Cunningham]

The US hasn't formally installed an ambassador to Canada; send Bolton here, and Wilkins to the UN. We'll take good care of your boy.

[Richard White]

Why can't we restore Democracy in the USA? Why are the "Republicans" always so angry at everything?
I have no reason to get excited about '"GAY MARRIAGE" I do not care if they marry or not.All the opponents of gay maarriage believe that there is an invisible man in the sky watching over us. They think that gays who want to marry are "unchristian"
Leave them alone they do not bother anybody. The gay people work, pay taxes should be entitled to all benefits of citizens of the USA.