Ex-Diplomat: Bolton Lacks Needed Qualities (Former colleague)

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/25/AR2005042501128.html

WASHINGTON -- A former colleague of John R. Bolton says President Bush's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations "has none of the qualities needed for that job."

Bolton "has all the qualities needed to harm the image and objectives in the U.N. and its affiliated international organizations. If it is now U.S. policy not to reform the U.N but to destroy it, Bolton is our man," Frederick Vreeland, a former U.S. ambassador to Morocco, said in an e-mail to the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. snip

Vreeland, who worked with Bolton in the early 1990s under the first President Bush, said Bolton "dealt with visitors to his office as if they were servants with whom he could be dismissive, curt and negative."

"He spoke of the U.N. as being the enemy," Vreeland added in the e-mail sent Friday to Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden. The e-mail was first reported by Time magazine. "It is totally erroneous to speak of Bolton as a diplomat."

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[EVDebs]

1. Tell Bush to send him to charm school !!!!!

[AlCzervik]

2. he was appointed by Poppy

http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/papers/1990/90060604.html

[Judi Lynn]

6. Also the son of Diane Freeland....

....Diana Vreeland (July 29, 1906, Paris, France - August 22, 1989) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. Born Diana Dalziel, she was the eldest daughter of British father, Frederick Young Dalziel (d. 1960), and an American mother, Emily Key Hoffman, a socialite who was a descendant of George Washington's brother as well as of Francis Scott Key of "Star-Spangled Banner" fame. Vreeland had one sister, Alexandra Vreeland. She also was a cousin of Pauline de Rothschild, a style icon of the 1960s who was frequently publicized in the magazines for which Vreeland worked.

Diana's family emigrated to the United States of America at the outbreak of World War I, and moved to 15 East 77th Street in New York. On March 1, 1924, she married Thomas Reed Vreeland, a banker, at St. Thomas's Church in New York. After their honeymoon, they moved to Albany, New York and raised their two sons -- Frederick Vreeland (later U.S. ambassador to Morocco) and Timothy Vreeland -- staying there until 1928.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/diana-vreeland

[Pinboy]

3. Bolton is a diplomat like Jack the Ripper is a surgeon...

(Don't credit me -- i found this unattributed on the internets.)

[AlCzervik]

4. Bolton is to diplomacy as bush is to President-in.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Like basic intelligence and humanity?

Bolton needs a punch in the nose for a change.

[wicket]

7. Rate the yahoo article up:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050425/ap_on_re_us/un_ambassador_95

[UpInArms]

8. related: Another Ex-Colleague Criticizes Bolton

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0405/223625.html

Washington (AP) - In the latest complaint against John R. Bolton, a former colleague says the undersecretary of state doesn't have what it takes to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. "Bolton has none of the qualities needed for that job," Frederick Vreeland, a former U.S. ambassador to Morocco (website - news) , said in an e-mail to the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "On the contrary, he has all the qualities needed to harm the image and objectives in the U.N. and its affiliated international organizations. If it is now U.S. policy not to reform the U.N but to destroy it, Bolton is our man."

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Vreeland, who worked with Bolton in the early 1990s under the first President Bush (website - news - bio) , said Bolton "dealt with visitors to his office as if they were servants with whom he could be dismissive, curt and negative."

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"He spoke of the U.N. as being the enemy," Vreeland added in the e-mail sent Friday to Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware. The e-mail was first reported by Time magazine. "It is totally erroneous to speak of Bolton as a diplomat."

[JNelson6563]

9. Wow! That's well said!

"It is totally erroneous to speak of Bolton as a diplomat."


I always enjoy when a true diplomatic takes aim and fires. They're so eloquently accurate.

:-) Julie

[LiberalFighter]

10. I hope he sent the same email to all on the committee