Bolton Out; America Now Fully Prepared For U.N.-Mandated Pussification
December 4th, 2006 at 9:47 am by Preston Taylor HolmesThe tenure of UN Ambassador John Bolton – one of the few things President Junior has done right in his administration – is over.
Bolton’s nomination has languished in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for more than a year, blocked by Democrats and several Republicans.
President Bush gave Bolton the job temporarily in August 2005, while Congress was in recess. But the appointment expires when Congress formally adjourns, no later than early January.
Bolton’s tendency to take no shit from the corrupt cesspool that is the U.N. was obviously too much for liberal Republicans like Link Chafee and George Voinovich, who no longer needs consoling.
Add this one to the list of reasons why the GOP was booted out on its collective ass in November. The base stayed home not because they want pacifist Donks in power, but because they’re sick of assholes like Chafee prancing around as pansy-ass leftist sheep in wolves’ clothing. Good riddance to you, Link. May your return to the private sector be as failure-riddled as was your public career.
December 4th, 2006 at 11:37 am
Hey, in about 6 weeks I am gonna be needing a job unless I git my check for reparations.
I would make a great Embassador! There are lots of Honkies who need setting straight and besides, I am good friends with Andy Young.
And finally I can bring our country in line with the rest of the world in condemming those bastard Joos.
December 4th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
U.N. Ambassador John Bolton To Step Down…
Unable to win Senate confirmation, controversial U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will step down when his…
December 4th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
Well folks this is not unexpected. It’s gotta’ get a whole lot worse before the American people wake up. This is just another drop in the bucket of what’s too come. Start preparing now for the tough times ahead.
December 5th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Americans have woken up that was seen in the last election.
Iraq is the biggest debacle in US foreign policy EVER.
Things are going to get worse in the Middle East and will be attributed to the misguided war in Iraq.
December 5th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
Oh yea. Things are as bad now as they’ve ever been in the Middle East. Such idiotic pronouncements eclipse their alleged insights.
What got me was the NY Times write up about it this morning where they did little except quote Lincoln Chafee, at some length, talking about how a couple of seats in the Congress and a couple in the Senate was tantamount to a mandate for repudiating everything done in the last 6 years. Really? Was that what happened with Link getting the boot too?
The US Ambassador to the UN is our Ambassador. His sole responsibility is to advocate our position. The Commie Left that wants to be adored by Syria, Liberia, Sudan, Cuba, China and Russia would rather us have some “peace at any price” capitulator whose mealy-mouthed platitudes make us the envy of the international community.
Like when Clinton praised Tianamen’s finest Jiang Zemin on having “vision”. Renouncing democracy for Taiwan. Or bribery diplomacy with North Korea. Or Hillary making out with Suha Arafat after her blood libel. Or bombing all the Christians in Kosovo and then forcing them to move back so the al-Qaeda linked Muslims could kill them under NATO’s bleary eye. Oh yea. And bombing Iraq because of their WMD’s on the eve of his impeachment.
Vietnam? The Bay of Pigs? Carter’s failed rescue of American hostages from Immanuttyjob. No….Iraq is the biggest. Sorry to encroach on Democratic President territory.
December 5th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
“Americans have woken up that was seen in the last election.”
where are the grammar police when you need them?
December 5th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
oops I forgot to put in a COMMA ! well here it is ,
However, Annika, sentences ARE supposed to begin with a capital letter.
December 5th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
Smatix
Well it wasn’t a couple of seats in the senate, nor was it a couple of seats in the House. And it was exactly that repudiation that cost Chafee his seat, it wasn’t because he was chasing 16 year old pages down the corridor.
Vietnam ? Upon whose shoulders would blame lie ? Eisenhower for sending in the first military ? Or would it be on Nixon for abandoning the government of South Vietnam ?
Hillary kissing up to Arafat ?
Well let’s not forget that in our last election 87% of the Jewish vote went to the Democrats.
The only people who are still pleased with the war in Iraq are those in the Bush base that are convinced that the End Times are near, the Rapture is coming and they don’t want to be left behind.
December 5th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
Where did the troll come from? Probably the same place Cynthia McKinney did…
Personally my vote for biggest failure of foreign policy goes to Jimmy Carter for not having the balls to extract our hostages from Tehran.
Funny…Reagan was in office for A HALF AN HOUR and just the threat of an ass-kicking got our hostages back.
Smantix and Preston’s analysis is dead on. The UN is an impotent organization. Bolton was a much needed shot of testosterone.
Maybe John Ryan can get together with Andy Young, Hugo Chavez, Cindy Sheehan and Rosie O’Fat…and go offer the olive branch to the “insurgent freedom fighters” in Iraq. I’m sure they will be graceful in accepting our apology.
December 6th, 2006 at 12:20 am
Jimmy Carter authorized an attempt to free the hostages. It failed, but I still do not denigrate the brave Americans that died trying.
The UN is an impotent organization with that I agree. Would you say that it has become more or less effective during the past 6 years ?
Today the new nominee for Secretary of Defense answered the question: “Do you think we are winning the war in Iraq”? with a simple two word answer “No, sir”
Perhaps what is needed to win, is to send all of the armchair bloggers over there to show us how it really should be done.
Try to stop looking back 25 years for problems to analyze or to a fix blame to, try doing that more with the present.
If analysis of the present is to difficult, you can always blame the party that has not been in power for the last 6 years.
December 6th, 2006 at 7:29 am
Carter sent them out there to die and then disgraced the entire country to the world. As he will continue to do until he finally dies. Which cannot come a day too soon.
I am waiting to hear what Bolton did wrong. He tried to help the UN by ferreting out the corruption and to make the organization legitimate that they have fought tooth and nail. They are no more impotent now than they’ve ever been – but more people realize it now. It’s not like their operating costs have gone down.
And so we get back to the old argumentum ad chickenhawkum. We pay for fucking standing army but the second someone thinks we should send them somewhere we should send them all on vacation and institute a draft.
Can I ask for your DD-214 from Kosovo?
December 6th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
I must disagree with Mr. John Ryan. The recent elections were the American people hitting the snooze and rolling back over. Yet another nap til the next alarm goes off (another 9/11 or worse).
December 6th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
You know, something was bothering me about J. Ryan’s original post. It had a certain familiarity to it.
Then I was listening to the radio and they were replaying an interview with Al Gore from this past weekend.
It was almost the exact same quote. Verbatim (well, except for J.Ryan’s bad grammar, but with Al Gore’s verbal skills you never can tell).
What I like about this site is that the writers actually seem to have original thoughts and simply don’t regurgitate the right-wing talking points (see The Insufferable Pricks Party platform).
So J. Ryan, try having an original thought of your own. The reference to bloggers being chickenhawks and your slam at Christians is old hat.
And the reason that Carter failed and Reagan succeeded is that Carter tried some weak “Mission Impossible” rescue mission that got our military personnel killed. Reagan sent a simple message…one that even terrorist thugs could understand. Release our hostages or we will bomb your asses back into the 8th century.
The reason our mission in Iraq appears to be failed policy is that our politicians are too (using your term, Preston) “pussified” to go win the damn thing. War sucks, but if you are going to defeat an enemy as evil as Islamofacists, you must inflict as much pain and destruction on them as possible. Fallujah (and other terrorist ratholes) should have been flattened.
But we now live in a world where “proportional response” and “limited collateral damage” is a bigger concern than crushing the enemy. In J. Ryan’s and Al Gore’s world, dodgeball, tag and tackle football are outlawed at recess and the best possible result is a “tie”.
Swampy’s brief drive-by assessment in comment #2 is accurate. Unless we turn our military loose to do their jobs, the entire situation will just get worse.
December 6th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Not that I owe you a damn thing J. Ryan, but in 2002 the Air Force recruiter told me, “thank you for your interest but you’re too old.” (I paraphrase)
That’s why I’m not on the front lines trying to affect change in the ME.
The biggest failure in Iraq was trying to give them a country. Perhaps we should have toppled Saddam and handed the key over to Kuwait with out best wishes.
As for the Democratic mandate; I think we all long for the Clinton years when all major crises could be resolved with a treaty and a photo-op and shelved for another few years.
December 6th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
I like dicks and butts. John Senior reared me well.
December 6th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Get your troll ass back to the Jawa Report, JR, where I can edit and delete your stupid shit.
John Ryan is a Jawa troll.
December 6th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
No worries Vinnie. I noticed he hit Ace, Wuzzadem, here and Jawa in the last couple of days. He’s our little Jehovah’s Witness of rage.
Kinda sad, really.
December 6th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
I just remembered that I hate Jehovah’s Witnesses. Thanks for reminding me. Go lick dicks elsewhere, homie. The only thing you may feel touching your ass will be the door knob on your way out.
Tell pappy we said, “don’t let the door hit ya where the good lawd split ya”.
Like billy goats over a bridge, these are the trolls of our lives.
December 6th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
It’s cretins like Ryan that make me wish I had time for internet pissing contests with the mentally disabled. But alas…
December 6th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
J. Ryan…you like butts too?!? Wow so do I!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFrGCYuxvMw
Funny….somehow I don’t think we are talkin’ about the same thing…
December 7th, 2006 at 12:27 am
Vinnie I was unaware that any of my Jawa comments had been deleted
December 7th, 2006 at 11:14 am
*Yawn* I’ve bandied about much more briskly with such at LGF.:roll:
December 7th, 2006 at 11:25 am
Actually Cranky I am not “enraged”. Nor am I forced into adolescent name calling. Since perhaps last September when it became obvious in the polls that the neo-cons were on their way out I have become increasingly optimistic about the future of my country. It is going to be a painful process extricating ourselves from the mess that Iraq has become but I am confident that my country and the majority of its people are up to it.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:47 am
Good luck with that Sparky.
Here’s a little dedication to send you on your way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ate9iHS02vk
December 7th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Well it will be an uphill battle trying to get things back together, the value of the dollar dropped by over 40% in the last 6 years versus the euro, but thanks for your support.
December 7th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
Yes, we get it. Bushitler has destroyed our economy.
Now excuse me while I go get into my convertible and drive off to the job I am sure to lose by the time W leaves office.
December 7th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Billy You have a convertible ? That is sooo cool !
December 7th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
Billy, can you drive it out for the IP convention?
December 7th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
Well…it wasn’t originally a convertible I must confess.
See…Bushitler created this global warming that has caused some really weird weather patterns in Southern California. Last summer something happened that I had never seen before…
Rain! Who would have believed it?
So some local immigrants came by and sawed off the top to my Toyota Prius because they needed it for shelter. Bushitler has the economy so screwed up here that the working class Aztlans don’t have any place to live.
So now I have a convertible. It’s OK I guess, since I am just squatting here in San Diego until MeCha and La Raza take California back for its rightful owners…
December 7th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Well at least you still have the job Billy AND a really cool Prius convertible too
December 7th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
To answer you, Cranky…why the hell would I take a week and drive 3,000 miles? Al Gore would surely come after my ass for all those wasted carbon points…
No, I will be taking a commercial jet that is already going to the east coast. Let’s start planning the IP convention this spring…
December 7th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Sure good point. I just love the idea of a road trip. But do fly.
Just don’t pray to Jesus Christ too loudly in the waiting area.
December 7th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Say Billy,,, That would be a grand opportunity to stop by the airport prayer room for a ham sandwich and pork rinds.
December 7th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Swampy,
As long as it isn’t one of your soon-to-be-famous racing pigs…
December 7th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
I said “where I CAN,” not “where I HAVE.”
But, you never know when I’ll get bored and go on a deleting spree.