Nominee John Bolton is no diplomat

[struggle4progress]

GOOD news! If there is a distinct possibility a Bush nominee is a vile-tempered, lying, ineffective bully, the U.S. Senate is willing to hold off on the vote for two weeks. <snip>

Bolton also pushed to cut funding for the Nunn-Lugar program to halt the nuclear proliferation of materials and failed to conclude a Plutonium Disposition Agreement with Russia to eliminate 70 tons of weapons-grade plutonium. Russia has more dangerous unsecured nuclear material than any other country. <snip>

He tried to fire two intelligence officers who had the temerity to disagree with him. Under oath, he denied trying to have the men fired, but seven intelligence officials contradicted him. In a typically intemperate statement, Bolton had dismissed the opinion of the chief bio-weapons analyst at State as that of "a mid-level munchkin." <snip>

Bolton is also the man who pushed to have the fake claim about Saddam's supposed Niger uranium put into the president's 2003 State of the Union Address. Truly, it is difficult to understand why the administration didn't nominate him for deputy assistant under secretary of the place where they stash embarrassing failures. <snip>

http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/oped/ci_2679769

[DoBotherMe]

1. He eats babies

[Last Lemming]

2. Is the fight over Bolton

a stand in for a concerns over administrative plans for Iran?