CNN/Reuters: Bolton presides over empty U.N. room

[DeepModem Mom]

Bolton presides over empty U.N. room
Ambassador finds punctuality not high on colleagues' lists
Thursday, February 2, 2006


UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -- John Bolton, Washington's U.N. ambassador, tried to open his first meeting as head of the Security Council at 10 a.m. sharp on Thursday -- and was irked to find no other diplomats showed up.

"I brought the gavel down at 10. I was the only one in the room," Bolton said. The United States has just assumed the rotating presidency of the 15-nation council for the month of February.

"I believe in discipline. I think daily briefings constitute a form of intellectual discipline. Starting on time is a form of discipline," Bolton told reporters. "I failed today."

"I took a list of when they (council members) came in," Bolton said. "We started just before 10:15."

As part of a plan to modernize council operations, Bolton proposed that ambassadors gather daily at 10 a.m. for a briefing on the latest global political and peacekeeping developments....


http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/02/un.bolton.reut/index.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. What's he gonna do

if they decide they aren't going to sieg heil to his "idea"? I think this is just another good way of alienating people in the UN.

[WhiteTara]

44. nuke whatever country they're from

they will obey orders. They will be punctual. Seig Heil, mustached nazi

[Todd B]

2. Maybe, just maybe..

..it's because you're an ASS, Mr. Bolton, that no one respects you!

Ah, good 'ol Amerikka.. "my way, or the highway". :eyes:

[orleans]

40. what was that quote bolton said about the U.N.?

something about if someone blew up the some of the floors it wouldn't be missed? (i can't remember) anyone know?

[KDLarsen]

50. Pr. Wikipedia..

"The Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If it lost ten stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."

[orleans]

70. yeah--that's right. no wonder no one wants to show up to work

on time. with that kind of attitiude who knows what the jerk will do.

[Vincardog]

3. The world's first note to BoltON FU

[LiberalinNC]

4. "I failed"...well duh!!!

:evilgrin:

[MrMonk]

22. John should be content that they showed up at all.

[Liberalboy]

5. Many professionals and diplomats know that...

different cultures have different concepts of time and the importance of it in daily life. Many cultures find that human interaction is more important then following the western concept of time.


Sigh...

[DBoon]

6. but there are few cultures

that will respect an arbitrary order from someone who carries absolutely no respect

[MrMonk]

18. or they may be intentionally late

to remind Bolton that he's not the boss of them.

[Hosnon]

69. That's definitely true. However, professionalism, in my opinion, would

say the diplomats should follow the cultural time structure of the country currently in charge.

[TheBaldyMan]

76. but if they were using New York minutes ...

they would have finished the meeting at a 'power breakfast' at 6:30am the day before.

[punpirate]

7. Of course, Bolton...

... would never consider that perhaps the other SC members might find his yammering on about what the United States demands of everyone else a bit tiresome, and that they might be a tad unwilling to subject themselves to his sort of "discipline." (After the revelations about Plato's Retreat, there's no telling what that discipline might entail. :) )

[susu369]

21. Revoltin' Bolton: as the anal-retentive ambassador

:evilgrin:

[samdogmom]

8. Gee. I guess you better resign. No one respects you--including me!

Am I surprised? No. Is the Bush administration confused? Probably. They just don't get it. NO ONE LIKES A BULLY! Thank goodness somebody can make this point loud and clear!

[cmd]

9. He better get used to it.

No one will be on time for any of his meetings with his attitude.

[AlamoDemoc]

10. hahahahahahaha...you ought to love the UN diplomats

they have a weird way of showing their displeasure...classic no show event!

[webtrainer]

11. Mr. Bolton why don't you try . . .

setting the start time for 9:45 am and then when they're A WHOLE FIFTEEN MINUTES LATE, you can feel better about yourself?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Will he send those late ambassadors to detention?

Or will he make them write "I will not be late for Security Council meetings" on the blackboard 100 times?

[xchrom]

get a clue bolton -- it was a big

''fuck you'' send up.

get it -- they were ALL late.

[tulsakatz]

13. haha........that's funny!

Maybe now he understands why it was a bad idea to force him into the UN simply because he wouldn't have gotten there any other way!!

[Call me Deacon Blues]

14. China? China? France? France? Beuller? Beuller?

Beuller?

[Inland]

16. Bah ha ha ha nt

[MrMonk]

19. "Bueller?"

I see this "Bueller?" thing all over DU.
Explain yourselves.

[DeepModem Mom]

29. To appreciate it fully, you should rent the DVD...

of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" -- and wait for the classroom scene in which the teacher says these words. A great scene!

[NYdemocrat089]

79. It is a quote from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/maindetails

Great movie.

[CatWoman]

15. hahahahahahahahahaha

:rofl:

[Inland]

17. And Bolton, diplomatically, turns it into personal attack publically made.

I mean, they were late. Send them a fricken memo and leave it at that.

I bet these meetings are going to be so much more productive with that extra fifteen minutes earned at the price of pissing off the entire council and staffs.

[radwriter0555]

23. It IS a personal attack and it represents how the USA under bush is

regarded by the entire world.

They were late as a specific slap in the face, to intentionally show their disrespect. I hope they totally ignore EVERYTHING about bolton.

[Daphne08]

31. Yep. That's the way I see it... it was a message. n/t

[deadparrot]

20. And who says the French don't have a sense of humor? nt

[TankLV]

24. Sweet! Sucks to be hated by THE ENTIRE WORLD, doesn't it?!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Guess that ramming your CRIMINAL ass down everyone's throat by that "recess appointment" when you KNEW that EVEN YOUR OWN COUNTRY wouldn't approve your appointment says something you asswipe, huh!

[goforit]

74. LOL!!!...So true!!!...And Hats off to the other countries for the no-shows

What a flop bush has proven to be!

[Hokie]

25. I thought Bolton's appointment ended with the new session

W appointed Bolton during a recess. I thought that ended when the new session of Congress opened. Am I missing something?

[saigon68]

26. They just do whatever the fuck they want to do

[Alexander]

34. The new session doesn't begin until 2007.

You aren't missing anything, but there's (at least) a year left in this guy's tenure.

[rpannier]

36. It's next year the appointment ends.

I think it's when the new congress takes session. That'd be after the Nov elections.

[karynnj]

41. The sessions are defined as 2 yr periods

We're in the 109th session which was 2005/2006

[Renew Deal]

47. Can he be reappointed then?

Can Bush pull the same stunt with the same guy?

[Gman]

52. Congressional sessions last 2 years

the next one won't start until January 07. Right now is a continuation of the session that started in January 05.

[Judi Lynn]

27. Oh, he took a list of names and times the latecomers arrived.

We could have predicted that.



Asshole.

[Daphne08]

33. OMG, what a "tight-ass" thing to do!

He is acting like a school principal.

What's he gonna do? Give them detention? :rofl: :rofl:

[tanyev]

61. They don't get recess for a week.

[0rganism]

43. I guess we know who won't be getting any extra credit this quarter!

Is this guy for real? Does he intentionally set up his life as a complete self-mockery? Or is he really this clueless?

[TheBaldyMan]

78. you mean he struck his own name off a complete list of UN diplomats?

[hang a left]

28. Here's to them being a half hour late tomorrow

[Rose Siding]

30. Why, it's almost as though they aren't taking him seriously

[rodeodance]

32. dah---now he is policing the UN.

[spanone]

35. Their kind way of saying fuck you, Mr. Bolton.

[DeadManInc]

37. If they wanted to hear an asshole they would fart.

[orleans]

38. maybe it's a sign john. take the hint: NO ONE LIKES YOU! n/t

[Up2Late]

39. He has to be the most UN-diplomatic Diplomat EVER!

What an idiot he is. It would be great if the other diplomats just did not attend ANY of the meetings he chairs.

[Theduckno2]

42. Yeah, John, you and your cohorts could have used that discipline,

when you were evaluating the intelligence on Iraqi WMD claims. But you went off, half-cocked(hee-hee), to start the war in Iraq and look where it got us.

Nitwit with a capital "N".

[NYC]

45. I find humor in this.

:)

[Renew Deal]

46. I love this.

He's an empty suit and with a little luck and hard work, he's gone by January.

[pinniped]

48. That's because no one likes this tool from the * cabal.

* had to sneak this POS in, sad.

Time to resign, jerkoff.

--"I failed today."--

[obreaslan]

49. If an asshole bangs a gavel and no one is there to hear it....

Is he still an asshole?



I say YES!!!!!!

:rofl:

[Gman]

51. As if Bolton or the US signs the paychecks of these diplomats

How arrogant! The international system is characterized by anarchy. The diplomats are well within their own national rights to get there when they damn well please. Sounds like that's just what they did and sent Bolton and the US a message at the same time. The message was "Kiss my ass, Ambassador Bolton! Just what the hell are you gonna do about it?"

The UN and other multinational organizations are a way to try to bring order to that anarchy. Bolton is doing an excellent cause of pushing other countries into alliances and multinational organizations. But it sure isn't in a way that does the US a bit of good.

[sweetheart]

53. war in the common

With peace and justice, human society will naturally invest in itself
to create long term wealth. None of these things is a bush objective,
hence a permanent state of war where bolton can arrive at the security
council and demand the world arrive like servants to massa's table.

War and making war is the only way to usurp the natural cycle of wealth.
And bolton's table is the foundation of all terrorism, good thing al
queda only means foundation in arabic or bolton would be in gitmo.

In future, any smart nation will simply learn from the past 100 years
of policy success and failure worldwide in liberal democracy. The
evolutions have been astounding. And rather than evolve, the empire
wants to make war, to kill all the new sprouts, and leave itself
leader of the world after the nuclear holocaust. These bushian nutters
want to push a nuclear war, to have it out with "evil" in a final
battle once and for all. They really believe4 it will be smart to
fight that battle now, rather than wait 50 years for the islamic
world to arm itself. And what do we get from it... from these assholes
who hyjakked our republic, a huge massive bankruptcy of everything our
entire lives have invested in. The state of the union is bankruptcy,
the president's word is not worth a penny.

[tecelote]

54. Another competent Bush appointee!

[habitual]

55. If I was a diplomat

and noticed bolton boy jotting down the time everyone came in then talking to the press saying how he believes in discipline.

I would certainly be late for every meeting he ever chairs again.... so would most methinks....

[Divernan]

56. Demanding ambassadors attend DAILY briefings is power play

and absolutely ridiculous. Can you imagine US Senate committee members (and the most senior ones at that) being ordered to attend a meeting of the same committee every day for "briefings"? What a colossal waste of time! If an emergency comes up, fine - call an emergency meeting. Otherwise, just have Bolton's staff send out emails if and when something of note needs to be circulated.

[underpants]

57. First of all he is just being a dick

the more meetings they have the more he gets to lead/govern/command/ whatever.

[underpants]

58. Secondly- Bolton et al are acting like this "reform" is their idea

the UN has been SLOWLY reforming itself since the end of the Cold War. Basically the Bush team has come in and are claimly to have initiated this and to be driving this when it started way before they got involved. The Oil-for-Fodd investigation is the exact same thing.

[sweetheart]

59. its to turn the UN in to a sham

It is much more degenerate than a power play, it is an attempt to
drive a political wedge in to the UN, where "with us or against us"
is endemic in every meeting, that the war of terror usurup all
civil relations. Then the other nations of the world will look
the other way while the baby temper peters out, and all the while,
the United nations will be sidelined and broken, this being
Bolton's primary objective.

How to diplomat with a wrecker, presuming that it is in your
countries interest to diplomat "around" the bush administration
until the american people can clean up the corruption. So who
to negotiate with when the UN is not working, suddently the only
reasonable figure is condi, if "reasonable" be a word for that.
Then nations who are wise, seeing the UN being wrecked, will
establish an arms length bilateral association, one that
keeps us corporations and armed services away if at all possible.

Bolton's every act is not to show he's a bully, but to completely
destroy the institution's reasonable debate by corrupting its
basis of existance, that the world's people are equal, or at least
a tiny smidgeon of that thinking... something bolton the slave
cannot know.

[underpants]

62. Right this was a stunt

They have the "hard working people like you have to be on time" and "lazy, unDISCIPLINED, slacker diplomats" talking points ready to go

[AndyA]

60. What did they expect?

Bush pulled a sneaky one over on the World by appointing this unqualified person to the UN during a recess. Did he really expect the rest of the World to honor this act?

Bush is a disgrace to America, and he is NOT RESPECTED around the World. By pulling this stunt, he has handicapped America until a legitimate representative of our government is put in this position at the UN.

It's shameful that the American people have been abused and taken advantage of by these Nazis.

[HughBeaumont]

63. Let me be the 473,484th person to say THANK YOU WORLD.

WE hate this band of bloodthirsty, money hungry voevods as much as you do. The fact that so many assholes voted these dickheads into office speaks volumes on how bad corporate influence is here. They burrowed right into our tax dollars and gave the common people nothing in return except unemployment, body bags and close to a 10 trillion dollar debt. An obvious message such as this should resonate loudly to them but it won't because they live in an unaccountable teflon bubble.

[raccoon]

64. Well, said, Beaver's dad!

"voevods " --what's that?

[HughBeaumont]

67. Comes from the early tales of Dracula (Vlad Tepes)

He was referred to as a "voevod" in the woodcuts, which early on meant "prince" or "warrior leader", but later became associated with someone who is a tyrannical bloodthirsty warhawk. Much like these assholes.

[plasticsundance]

65. Bolton is such a dickhead ...

[No Exit]

66. Take that, you mustachioed little twatmouth WIMP who chases women

up and down hotel halls in foreign countries, throwing shoes at them!

You're a pussy, and they all know it. I guess it's a little easier to bully unprotected women than it is to bully U.N. ambassadors, isn't it?

[Caretha]

68. What a immature Fat head!

"I took a list of when they (council members) came in," Bolton said. "

What's he going to do? Send them to the Principal's office? Tell their Mommys?

[lovuian]

71. A Wake up call for Bush & Bolton

ya can't do anything if nobody is there!!!

[goforit]

72. Roflmao!!!!........No one is paying attention!!!!.....Is this sweet Karma?

[Strawman]

73. You're the asshole boss of the world now, John...

Keep dreaming

[UTUSN]

75. Well, can't Rec, but I can KICK! n/t

[neuvocat]

77. Why he's the center of the universe now.

He's the head of the UN security council and by golly he's entitled to treatment worthy of any overlord.

[Dr Fate]

80. He should wear a shash and be the U.N. Hall Monitor while he is at it. n/t

n/t

[LibertyorDeath]

81. What if you concocted reasons for war and nobody came.

[classysassy]

82. Yo John

maybe its your BO.