President George W. Bush's recess appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Robert Bolton, in the news, still. From his Wikipedia entry:
John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948), is an American conservative political figure who has been employed in several Republican presidential administrations. He worked as the interim Permanent US Representative to the UN from August 2005 until December 2006 on a recess appointment, and resigned in December 2006 when his recess appointment would have ended[1] [2] and he was unable to gain confirmation from the Senate.[3][4]
John Bolton Won't Shut Up About Bombing Iran
Posted by Steve Benen, Washington Monthly at 4:31 PM on July 2, 2009.
A PATTERN EMERGES.... Time's Joe Klein notices that a certain former U.N. ambassador has a preoccupation with bombing a certain Middle Eastern country, and manages to keep finding major newspapers to publish his thoughts on the subject.
In the Washington Post today, screw-loose wingnut extraordinaire John Bolton has a column in which he advocates an Israeli strike against Iran. This would be shocking, except that...
On June 26, Bolton had an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times in which he advocated bombing Iran. And, well, er...
On June 12, he had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he advocated bombing Iran.
And that's just three op-eds in three weeks. We could go back a little further and find Bolton -- in op-eds, on Fox News -- advocating military attacks on Iran for years.
Your blogger's reaction:
For a typical "chicken-hawk" who lusts for war when it's not his own ass on the line, recall this from Bolton's Wikipedia biography:
"Though Bolton supported the Vietnam War, he enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard, but did not serve in Vietnam. He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost."[9] In an interview, Bolton discussed his comment in the reunion book, explaining that he decided to avoid service in Vietnam because "by the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that opponents of the Vietnam War had made it certain we could not prevail, and that I had no great interest in going there to have Teddy Kennedy give it back to the people I might die to take it away from." [10][11"
So, let me get this straight, because of the liberal media elite, the war in Vietnam was already lost by 1970, and even if Bolton had gone over and turned the tide, Ted Kennedy would have surrendered on behalf of all pinko-commie-loving hippies here in the U.S.
Right...
