Bolton off his leash

November 17, 2005 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose lies have no bounds, assured everyone worried about unconfirmed US ambassador to the UN John Bolton's lack of tact and offensive behavior that the mercurial official would be kept on a short leash. If Bolton was ever on a leash, he's off of it now.


Off his short leash and his rocker: Bolton says UN should comply with US dictates or be replaced. Bolton's rhetoric is nothing new, its just that the mustache is a bit larger

Bolton's latest outrage is to suggest that unless the UN comply with US dictates it should be replaced. Bolton cited former Republican far right North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, Bolton's one-time employer, as a role model for dealing with UN ambassadors.

We've heard this right wing clap trap about international organizations before:

"In our view, the times when there was no 'League of Nations' were far more honorable and more humane."

-- Adolf Hitler, Munich speech, April 13, 1923

"The League of Nations has never been a real league of peoples. A number of great nations do not belong to it or have left it"

-- Adolf Hitler, Reichstag speech, January 30, 1937

"The League of Nations was not an instrument of a just policy of understanding among nations, but is and was a guarantee of the meanest dictation man ever invented."

-- Adolf Hitler, Wilhelmshaven speech, April 1, 1939

"There's no such thing as the United Nations, if 10 floors
of the 38-story UN headquarters building were eliminated, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."

-- John Bolton, 1994 Federalist Society speech

"Being practical, Americans say that either we need to fix the institution or we'll turn to some other mechanism to solve international problems."

-- John Bolton, Jesse Helms Lecture Series, Wingate University, November 14, 2005