Bolton's replacement at State....even worse?????? background info to know.

[Gloria]

From the new World Media Watch at http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical
Tomorrow at Buzzflash


1//WorldPress.org, US June 18, 2005

http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/2101.cfm





NUCLEAR WARRIOR REPLACES BOLTON AS ARMS CONTROL CHIEF

Tom Barry
International Relations Center


The top United States government official in charge of arms control advocates the offensive use of nuclear weapons and has deep roots in the militarist political camp.



Moving into the old job of John Bolton, the administration’s hard-core unilateralist nominee to be the next ambassador to the United Nations, Robert G. Joseph is the right-wing’s advance man for counter-proliferation as the conceptual core of a new military policy.



Within the administration, he leads a band of counter-proliferationists who — working closely with such militarist policy institutes as the National Institute for Public Policy (N.I.P.P.) and the Center for Security Policy (C.S.P.) — have placed preemptive attacks and weapons of mass destruction at the center of national security strategy.



Joseph replaced John Bolton at the State Department as the new undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs.

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Not a high-profile hardliner like John Bolton or former undersecretary of defense for policy Douglas Feith, Joseph successfully avoided the public limelight — that is until the scandal of the 16 words in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union Address about Iraq’s alleged nuclear weapons development program. Press reports and congressional testimony by Central Intelligence Agency officials later revealed that the C.I.A. had vigorously protested the inclusion of any assertion that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons since their intelligence would not support such a conclusion. Alan Foley, the C.I.A.’s top expert on weapons of mass destruction, told Congress that Joseph repeatedly pressed the C.I.A. to back the inclusion in Bush’s speech of a statement about Iraq’s attempts to buy uranium from Niger.

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