News: 59 American Ex-Diplomats Oppose Bolton

[Bluebear]

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WASHINGTON - Challenging the White House, 59 former American diplomats are urging the Senate to reject John R. Bolton's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

"He is the wrong man for this position," they said in a letter to Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Indiana Republican has scheduled hearings on Bolton's nomination for April 7.

"We urge you to reject that nomination," the former diplomats said in a letter obtained by The Associated Press and dated Tuesday.

The ex-diplomats have served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, some for long terms and others briefly. They include Arthur A. Hartman, ambassador to France and the Soviet Union under Presidents Carter and Reagan and assistant secretary of state for European affairs under President Nixon.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=5&u=/ap/20050328/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_un_ambassador

[acmavm]

1. Oh shit, I remember when a truckload of Nobel Prize winners came out

against electing bush** in 2004. Lot of good that did.

Do they really expect 'President Impishly Charming' (or so says the NYT) to give a fat rat's ass?