Bolton stays true to his colors.
March/20/06 06:29 PM
Well, Bolton hasn't been a let down.
Most of your
opponents thought he would be disruptive. You didn't
disagree; you said the UN needed to be shaken up.
Everyone was right. He has performed as expected.
He is such an isolationist he didn't even attend many of the meetings or engage in any of the negotiations over the recent creation of a UN Human Rights Council.
He told mediators what he thought and refused to compromise and even refused to attend most of the formal sessions.
Bolton complained that no one would listen to him; he continued his rant to say he is right everyone else is wrong.
According to people who worked at the State department, Bolton's bizarre behavior was the norm when he was Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security.
UN mediators were not sure if Bolton was being adamant or if he wanted to kill the effort. My vote is that he constantly looks for ways to make the UN more ineffective.
On Feb. 27, after multiple revisions and dozens of meetings, General Assembly President Jan Eliasson presented the final proposal which Bolton immediately denounced it because it did not contain the U.S. demands for the two-thirds threshold and a ban on countries under sanctions and called for negotiations to reopen.
Bolton pulled the same ploy in two other negotiations on U.N. reform in the last six months, only to have Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ultimately approve a compromise.
A U.N. diplomat who was closely involved in the negotiations said Bolton didn't explain what he was looking for. Mediators and allies offered ideas to help them, but nothing could get Bolton engaged in the process.
Eliasson went ahead and scheduled a meeting of the General Assembly on Wednesday to adopt the proposal. It passed with a nearly unanimous vote. Human Rights organizations praised the result.
Afterwards, Bolton groused about the UN missing an opportunity but at least he didn't block the funds for the new body.
Bolton has repeatedly tried to cripple the UN since he arrived and ironically he is uniting the world against us.
Don't forget about the Kurds. They are feeling very neglected, especially the people from the city of Halabja.
Last Thursday thousands of really angry Kurds took their frustration out on the city's most famous monument, an edifice dedicated to 5,000 residents killed in one of Saddam's poison gas attacks. The monument was trashed and set afire.
Halabja is the site of the single most deadly attack on the Kurdish people during the Al Anfal campaign
The rampaging Kurds are said to be tired of waiting for the regional government to rebuild the city's infrastructure. According to the Kurds, over half of the city's 60,000-people do not have a reliable source of clean water. The only electricity comes from private generators. Doctors do not have adequate medical supplies, and 90 percent of the roads are still unpaved.
"The international community and the Iraqi central government has failed to honour their promises to Halabja," independent Kurdish MP Mahmoud Othoman, said.
The monument, a symbol of poverty to the city must have reminded them how badly they still have it three years after Saddam was overthrown.
Don't kid yourself, they blame you for their misery as well.
From: comments@whitehouse.gov
Date: March 20, 2006 6:47:37 PM CST
To: guzmatom@mac.com
On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.
Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House is
unable to respond to every message, and therefore this response
is an autoreply.
Thank you again for taking the time to write.
He is such an isolationist he didn't even attend many of the meetings or engage in any of the negotiations over the recent creation of a UN Human Rights Council.
He told mediators what he thought and refused to compromise and even refused to attend most of the formal sessions.
Bolton complained that no one would listen to him; he continued his rant to say he is right everyone else is wrong.
According to people who worked at the State department, Bolton's bizarre behavior was the norm when he was Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security.
UN mediators were not sure if Bolton was being adamant or if he wanted to kill the effort. My vote is that he constantly looks for ways to make the UN more ineffective.
On Feb. 27, after multiple revisions and dozens of meetings, General Assembly President Jan Eliasson presented the final proposal which Bolton immediately denounced it because it did not contain the U.S. demands for the two-thirds threshold and a ban on countries under sanctions and called for negotiations to reopen.
Bolton pulled the same ploy in two other negotiations on U.N. reform in the last six months, only to have Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ultimately approve a compromise.
A U.N. diplomat who was closely involved in the negotiations said Bolton didn't explain what he was looking for. Mediators and allies offered ideas to help them, but nothing could get Bolton engaged in the process.
Eliasson went ahead and scheduled a meeting of the General Assembly on Wednesday to adopt the proposal. It passed with a nearly unanimous vote. Human Rights organizations praised the result.
Afterwards, Bolton groused about the UN missing an opportunity but at least he didn't block the funds for the new body.
Bolton has repeatedly tried to cripple the UN since he arrived and ironically he is uniting the world against us.
Don't forget about the Kurds. They are feeling very neglected, especially the people from the city of Halabja.
Last Thursday thousands of really angry Kurds took their frustration out on the city's most famous monument, an edifice dedicated to 5,000 residents killed in one of Saddam's poison gas attacks. The monument was trashed and set afire.
Halabja is the site of the single most deadly attack on the Kurdish people during the Al Anfal campaign
The rampaging Kurds are said to be tired of waiting for the regional government to rebuild the city's infrastructure. According to the Kurds, over half of the city's 60,000-people do not have a reliable source of clean water. The only electricity comes from private generators. Doctors do not have adequate medical supplies, and 90 percent of the roads are still unpaved.
"The international community and the Iraqi central government has failed to honour their promises to Halabja," independent Kurdish MP Mahmoud Othoman, said.
The monument, a symbol of poverty to the city must have reminded them how badly they still have it three years after Saddam was overthrown.
Don't kid yourself, they blame you for their misery as well.
From: comments@whitehouse.gov
Date: March 20, 2006 6:47:37 PM CST
To: guzmatom@mac.com
On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.
Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House is
unable to respond to every message, and therefore this response
is an autoreply.
Thank you again for taking the time to write.