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The Expansionist
Friday, April 22, 2005
 
Republican Unreality. John Podhoretz trivializes opposition to John Bolton's nomination on the twin grounds that the charge he is vicious to people he disagrees with is "probably false" and that that charge is in any case a "preposterous objection". That is precisely the kind of out-of-touch foolishness that endangers Republican hegemony.
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Bolton is being considered for AMBASSADOR, not military officer. Viciousness and diplomacy don't go together, especially at the United Nations, where the U.S. is already viewed as a bully, and especially at a time when the U.S. wants to internationalize its Iraq mission and diversify the sources of funding so we don't have to keep pouring tens of billions of dollars into Iraq and Afghanistan when we have a huge budget deficit. John Bolton is the wrong man for the job, and the Republicans are the wrong party for this country.
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(Responsive to "Elephant Panic", column by John Podhoretz in the New York Post, April 22, 2005)
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 1,566.)

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 12:57 PM




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