"Hothead nominee is wrong choice for UN post" -- Det Free Press

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Lead editorial in today's Detroit Free Press:

http://www.freep.com/voices/editorials/ebolton26e_20050426.htm

John Bolton


Hothead nominee is wrong choice for UN post

April 26, 2005



Vice President Dick Cheney admits Undersecretary of State John Bolton is aggressive and abrasive. He just seems to think that's exactly what we need in the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The vice president is wrong.


The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has postponed the vote on Bolton's nomination until May 12, to consider allegations about him, including that he chased a woman through a Moscow hotel, threw things at her and left threatening notes under her door. It was a story that gave serious pause to even Republican committee member Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio, rare in these partisan times.


The Bush administration ought to cut its losses and find a new nominee. If Bush sticks with Bolton, the committee should vote him down.


At a time when the U.S international reputation remains in tatters over exaggerated intelligence in the buildup to the war in Iraq, the last person the country needs at the United Nations is the man who exaggerated the presence of weapons in Cuba and then tried to fire the intelligence analysts who disputed his "findings."

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1. With this mi$admini$tration,

EVERY choice for a major post is the wrong choice