U.N. Nominee [Bolton] Asserts His Independence on Intelligence

[rodeodance]

He is dangerous-and his arrogance is baffling!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/12/politics/12bolton.html?th&emc=th

U.N. Nominee Asserts His Independence on Intelligence

By DOUGLAS JEHL
With a vote scheduled today on his nomination, John R. Bolton said a policy maker should maintain the right to "state his own reading of the intelligence."

[no_hypocrisy]

1. And his indepedence from intelligence to boot.

What a combo. What a liar. What a frontman.

[ananda]

2. this means..

.. that he can read intelligence any way he wants and tell the public anything he wants.

So.. what else is new?

Sue

[rodeodance]

4. yes, you are right-unfortunately

[truthisfreedom]

3. nothing like being a frontman bushco hero. on top of the world, huh

bolton?

get a friggin haircut, bully-boy.

[bemildred]

5. "Don't bother me with facts, my minds made up!" nt

[AnneD]

6. UN Nominee Asserts His Independence on Intelligence

and his dick everywhere else.........

[pcboss49]

7. Repugs deserve Bolton

I say let him become UN ambassador. This will only give the repugs another piece of rope to hang themselves. Only a matter of time before he creates and embarrassing situation or a scandal.

[bemildred]

8. Second that.

It's not like there is something un-fucked-up that he could
make worse, or that he has shown the slightest sign of competence
at any point in his career.

Edit: and what is this thing with sodomy anyway? I mean, he is
like the perfect representative of the Bushites, trying to
sodomize the world for it's own good.

[w4rma]

9. His independence from reality. (nt)

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Could Bolton be the senior advisor who made the "reality-based community"

remark?

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were in what we call the reality-based community, which he defined as people who believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. That's not the way the world really works anymore, he continued. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community? Many of the other elected officials in Washington, it would seem. A group of Democratic and Republican members of Congress were called in to discuss Iraq sometime before the October 2002 vote authorizing Bush to move forward. A Republican senator recently told Time Magazine that the president walked in and said: Look, I want your vote. I'm not going to debate it with you. When one of the senators began to ask a question, Bush snapped, Look, I'm not going to debate it with you.

http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/The_Reality-Based_Community

It certainly seems he has the arrogance to say this.