After Rumsfeld, Now Bolton

[donsaeid]

بوش استعفاي بولتون را پذيرفت

بولتون از سازمان ملل كنار گذاشته شد


جرج بوش رئيس جمهور آمريكا با استعفاي جان بولتون نماينده آمريكا در سازمان ملل متحد ، از اين سمت موافقت كرد.



به نقل از خبرگزاري آسوشيتدپرس، كاخ سفيد امروز اعلام كرد ، جان بولتون كه نتوانست تاييد سنا را جلب كند، قرار است در پايان دوران ماموريت خود در سازمان ملل ، از اين سمت كناره گيري كند.

بيش از يك سال است كه نامزدي بولتون در كميته روابط خارجي سناي آمريكا با سوالات متعدد مواجه شده است .

جرج بوش در آگوست 2005 موقتا بولتون را به عنوان نماينده آمريكا در سازمان ملل انتخاب كرد.

شكست جمهوريخواهان در انتخابات ميان دوره اي كنگره در هفتم نوامبر باعث شده است كه دولت بوش با مشكلاتي مواجه شود.

پيش از اين نيز تحت فشارهاي سياسي، بالاخره بوش با استعفاي دونالد رامسفلد وزير دفاع خود موافقت كرد.

[donsaeid]

Bolton resigns as U.N. ambassador


Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will step down when his recess appointment expires soon, the White House announced this morning.

"It is with deep regret that I accept John Bolton's decision to end his service in the administration as Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations when his commission expires," President Bush said this morning in a statement issued by the White House.

Bush gave Bolton the job temporarily in August 2005, while Congress was in recess. That appointment will expire when Congress adjourns, no later than January.

Bolton's nomination has languished in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for more than a year, blocked by Democrats and several Republicans. The White House resubmitted Bolton's nomination in mid-November.


In the statement, Bush said he was "deeply disappointed that a handful of United States Senators prevented Ambassador Bolton from receiving the up or down vote he deserved in the Senate. They chose to obstruct his confirmation, even though he enjoys majority support in the Senate, and even though their tactics will disrupt our diplomatic work at a sensitive and important time.

"This stubborn obstructionism ill serves our country, and discourages men and women of talent from serving their nation," Bush said in the statement.

Bolton's decision came only weeks after White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten said the administration did not plan to back down from a fight to win Senate approval for him.

Bush planned to meet with Bolton and his wife later today in the Oval Office.

In mid-November, White House Counselor Dan Bartlett said Bolton has done a remarkable job. "He's proven the critics wrong on all the charges they've leveled against him," Bartlett said. "So let's have a conversation about it. We'll see."

But just after the midterm election in November, the Senate's top Democrat said lawmakers have more pressing matters to deal with during the post-election session this week. "I think we should go to things that we can work together on," said Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Finding a replacement for Bolton would come at a sensitive time for the Bush administration. It is counting heavily on U.N. diplomacy to help confront North Korea and Iran over their nuclear programs and to end fighting in Sudan's Darfur region.

With Democrats capturing control of the next Congress, Bolton's chances of winning confirmation appeared slim at best. In early November, the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, said he saw "no point in considering Mr. Bolton's nomination again."

Democrats say Bush should alter course now and nominate someone less hard-charging, with greater finesse in handling sensitive diplomatic matters.

"There's a lot of competent people. Send someone new up, Mr. President," Biden said in mid-November. "He doesn't even have the votes in the committee. He doesn't even have the votes of a Republican-controlled committee today."

[Khorsheed]

BYE BYE BOLTON !!

[donsaeid]

Bolton resigns UN posting

THE controversial US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, wouldstep down when his temporary appointment to the post expires, perhaps in days, the White House announced.

US President George W. Bush was to formally announce his decision to stop fighting on behalf of the pugnacious, blunt-talking diplomat when they meet in the Oval Office at 8.10am (AEDT), said spokeswoman Dana Perino.



It was unclear when Mr Bush would announce his choice to replace Mr Bolton.

Facing steep Democratic opposition to Mr Bolton, Mr Bush had used a presidential power called a recess appointment to give him the job in August 2005.







Ms Perino also deplored past efforts by Democrats to use a parliamentary tactic called a filibuster - blocking a vote by refusing to allow debate on the nomination to end - to kill Mr Bolton's nomination.

[donsaeid]

BYE BYE BOLTON !!

it is just good to see that old hauks and war crazy friends of GWB disapear

[Khorsheed]

IT CERTAINLY IS

[mike435]

i acctualy liked him because he broght a very diffrent voice to the UN

[Khorsheed]

and what voice was that ?

[donsaeid]

Voice of Hate and Sanction against everybody who dont supported USAs policy!

[Khorsheed]

EXACTLY .i wonder what the voice resembles to him . . he always succeeds to surprise me

[Khorsheed]

Controversial US envoy quits post

The controversial US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, is to leave his post, the White House says.
Mr Bolton looked unable to win the necessary Senate support for him to continue in the job, which he had obtained on a temporary basis.

Critics have questioned factors including his abrasive style at the UN.

Mr Bolton's move comes after US defence chief Donald Rumsfeld resigned following the Republican defeat in last month's mid-term elections.

The incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic Senator Joe Biden, said he saw "no point in considering Mr Bolton's nomination again".

The White House said President George W Bush had "reluctantly" accepted Mr Bolton's move to step down at the end of the current Congress session in January.

Mr Bush said he was "deeply disappointed that a handful" of senators were blocking Mr Bolton's confirmation.

The departure would disrupt US diplomatic work at a sensitive time, the president said.

The news comes days before a bipartisan panel is expected to suggest the US should begin talking to Iran and Syria, an initiative Mr Bolton has opposed.

'Ideal envoy'

Mr Bolton took up the UN posting last year during a congressional holiday after his nomination stalled in the Senate.

It was a procedural manoeuvre that avoided the need for him to be confirmed until the end of this year.

That procedure cannot be repeated, and the new climate in Congress would make it all but impossible for him to win a two-thirds majority of senators.

A White House spokeswoman said Mr Bolton had "served his country with distinction".

His achievements included the assembling of coalitions addressing North Korea's nuclear activity and Iran's uranium enrichment and reprocessing work, Mr Bush said.

Democrats said the move could prove a turning point for the administration.

Senator John Kerry said it was an opportunity for Mr Bush to nominate an ambassador "who enjoys the support necessary to unite our country and the world and who can put results ahead of ideology".

Correspondents say Mr Bolton personified Washington's view of the UN as an institution that was viewed as being wasteful and ineffective at best - and inimical to America's wider global interests at worst.

Mr Bolton's critics said a man who once declared there was "no such thing" as the UN was hardly a suitable choice to join the body.

His nomination incensed many former US ambassadors - 102 of whom signed a letter urging senators to reject his nomination.

But his admirers said he was a bright, hard-working realist - whose scepticism about the UN's role made him an ideal envoy, particularly when the organisation was in need of deep reform.

[mike435]

look it is very good to get these types of people
isant your whole philosophy being objective and looking at both sides
well while most of the world is intrested in apeasment this guy goes out their and is very blaint about us policy
sure i dont agree with many of his stuff
but it is still good for him to be their it counters the others

it is like i hate the ultra libral or the religious but i think i would be at a loss if they were not repersented or couldnt voice their opinions becuase than i dont see what else is out their i am only stuuck in my own whatevert view it is even thogh my view is not reality because it dosent take into account that some like a ultra religious or libral or neocon excists
that is why even as a jew and a hatter of nazi i would not protest if natzi wanted to voice an opinion
i would protest and try to get them out but i it is a diffrent thing

also as american citizen some the stuff he did i think were very good. example diverting wepons incpection in the US

[donsaeid]

but do you think it is neccessery to have more of them who are bringing more hate? do we need more hate? and fight? and war?

dont we need people who can sit and talk and try to solve for once?

[mike435]

but do you think it is neccessery to have more of them who are bringing more hate? do we need more hate? and fight? and war?

dont we need people who can sit and talk and try to solve for once?

you are right and i am gonne and think about it
but you cant have the libral politicly correct soft approach that franc britan and germany have their is to much of that apeasment going around
you need this hawk to fight the other hawks

[donsaeid]

yeah you hit hard with hard! to farsi migan moshak javabe moshak! but what im saying remove the first rocket and second rocket wont be created! do you get what im trying to tell?