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> "Fred Bloggs" wrote in message
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> In article <1165493541.051456.8800@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com>,
> graufox@aol.com says...
>> < Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will
>> step
>> down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White
>> House
>> said Monday.
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>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/ap_on_re_us/bolton_resigns&printer=1
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>> About time.
>>
>> Earl Evleth>
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>> December 07, 2006
>> The Nuts Get Bolton
>> By David Warren
>>
>> Perhaps the best ambassador to the U.N. that the U.S. has had for a
>> generation, has resigned rather than put his country and the Bush
>> administration through the spectacle of being retroactively "Borked" by
>> a soon Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate. John Bolton was detested by
>> many senators (and admired by a few) as much for his robust personal
>> qualities, as for his proven ability to advance U.S. interests through
>> the chambers of the world's most ponderous, cumbersome, and therefore
>> thankfully ineffective, anti-American institution.
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> Let's face it, Bolton was foisted on the US Congress by a Shrubbery mad
> with their own power, who thought they didn't need to be accountable to
> the democratic institutions. Now they're learning why that was wrong.
> Frankly, they seem damned unappreciative of the valuable lesson in
> practical politics they're being taught.
>
> [snipped unreadable drivel]
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>> otiosus@sympatico.ca
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>> © Ottawa Citizen
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> Bolton was rejected by more than one Republican Senator not so much for
> his political attitude but for his bullying behaviour to his subordinates.
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