John R. Bolton's nomination to be ambassador to the United Nations suffered a setback yesterday when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unexpectedly decided to spend three more weeks investigating allegations that he mistreated subordinates, threatened a female government contractor and misled the committee about his handling of classified materials.
John Bolton. Yosemite Sam with a milk moustache and a bad hairpiece. No, that's unfair to Sam, who never did Dick Cheney's dirty work to suppress the information there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
That rootin'-tootin' cowboy never dreamed up a story about Nigerian uranium yellowcake being sold to Iraq to make nukes as a justification for a war that would let his boss's Company charge over $212 million (and counting) in cost overruns.
Yosemite Sam never said anything like "Iraq, despite UN sanctions, maintains an aggressive program to rebuild the infrastructure for its nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile programs. In each instance, Iraq’s procurement agents are actively working to obtain both weapons-specific and dual-use materials and technologies critical to their rebuilding and expansion efforts, using front companies and whatever illicit means are at hand," in order to start a war to enrich his patrons in the Carlyle Group.
That mean little outlaw never successfully covered up the Reagan administration's role in supporting Contra gun-running and drug smuggling. Nor did he try to start a conflict with Cuba by unsuccessfully accusing them of producing bioweapons; nor did he ruin the career of a CIA agent who disagreed with him.
That red-haired gunslinger never advocated starting a war with China to his PNAC buddies, either, or nearly personally started a war with North Korea that would drag in China.
That short-tempered cowboy never pressed the AEI agenda he helped invent after a bloody unneccessary war was started to try to start up wars in other places as well.
Yosemite Sam never laundered dirty money for PACs.
So lay off the cartoon character, already. It's tough enough getting your rear kicked by a pesky rabbit. There's no reason to compare him to such a durned dude.
Thanks to Charles Judson Harwood Jr. for some of the links.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
"Ya hoo! Bam! Bam! Bam!
Ain't going have no black helicopters over America if we elect Bolton! BAM! BAM! BAM!"
I read an interesting article the other day that said the WTO is what these reactionary haters of the UN should be afraid of. It is actually doing what they think the UN is doing. But do that notice that? No because they nutballs know that the UN is a safe target.
Speaking of yellowcake and Niger, I wonder when we will have a conviction on the Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame case. Do you suppose they have delayed it away?
Post a Comment