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by Ian Mosley

Could it be–could it just possibly be–that Congress is on the verge of re-discovering something remotely resembling a spine, and deep-sixing one of the worst embarrassments that the neocons have inflicted on America and the world, our ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton?

The Times of London reports that “John Bolton, President Bush’s controversial Ambassador to the United Nations, is in danger of losing his job as opposition to his appointment increases in the Senate. Mr Bush’s nomination of Mr Bolton to the UN met such opposition on Capitol Hill last year that he was forced to install him by means of a recess appointment, when Congress was not in session.”

The abuse of recess appointments, originally intended solely to be used in the case of genuine emergencies, is -by the way- one of the many examples of our transformation into a dictatorship from a representative republic.

The BBC goes on the say, “That appointment in August last year limited Mr Bolton’s tenure to the duration of the current Congress, which concludes on January 3, unless the Senate confirms him formally before then. The White House had hoped to get Mr Bolton confirmed this month, but Senate approval is looking increasingly unlikely. Another failed nomination would be a significant blow to Mr Bush, who has remained determined to see his choice confirmed permanently to the post, and a humiliation for Mr Bolton…Last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee postponed a vote on Mr Bolton indefinitely after Lincoln Chafee, a moderate Republican in a tight mid-term Senate race, said that he still had doubts about the nomination.”

During Bolton’s initial confirmation hearings in 2005, which was subject to a prolonged filibuster by both Democrats and Republicans who were appalled at the idea of this loon representing the United States at the UN, a number of disturbing facts emerged about Bolton’s free and easy relationship with the truth, as well as his often erratic and sometimes deranged behavior in both the private sector and high-level government jobs to which he was appointed by his neocon mentors.

When Bolton was Undersecretary of State he was one of the main propagandists pushing false and misleading intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s (non-existent) weapons of mass destruction, and he has also been in the forefront of those in the neocon crew who are pushing for a completely insane and unprovoked attack on Iran which will probably destroy the world economy by pushing crude oil prices over $100 a barrel. According to State Department sources, Bolton withheld information that ran counter to his goals from Secretary of State Colin Powell on multiple occasions, and from Powell’s successor Condoleezza Rice as well.

He has also been described by former co-workers and associates as an anger management case who screams, rants and raves at people who tell him things he doesn’t want to hear, who tends to throw papers and binders and paperweights at people who question or criticize him, who wages vicious interoffice intrigues of personal destruction against people he doesn’t like, and who has been observed talking and giggling to himself when he thinks no one is around. At the UN his verbal abuse directed against other diplomats has become legendary and everyone in the building tries to avoid him in the lobby or the corridors because of his bizarre behavior and tirades against pretty much everyone except the Zionists and oil executives whom he adores.

Put it this way: apparently this guy is so nuts that even the normally cowed and submissive U. S. Senate can’t stomach him. Who knows? Maybe –if Bolton is removed, the war on Iran will be prevented.