Bolton to leave as U.S. ambassador to U.N.
WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Facing opposition from key senators, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will leave office in a matter of days, the White House announced on Monday.
Spokeswoman Dana Perino said President George W. Bush had reluctantly accepted Bolton's decision to leave the U.N. post when the current session of the U.S. Congress ends, possibly at the end of the week.
Bush had bypassed the Senate in August 2005 by appointing Bolton to the position when the lawmakers were in recess, avoiding the confirmation process and angering senators concerned that Bolton had a temper and intimidated intelligence analysts to support his hawkish views while at the State Department.
Bolton and White House officials felt that if the full Senate had had the chance to vote on his nomination that he would be confirmed, but some senators in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opposed him.
"Despite the support of a strong bipartisan majority of senators, Ambassador Bolton's confirmation was blocked by a Democrat filibuster, and this is a clear example of the breakdown in the Senate confirmation process," Perino said.
Bush planned to meet Bolton in the Oval Office on Monday afternoon.
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She'll be the last to go, and, as far as the criminals go, she'd be the worst. She is the one's the Neo-Cons love to hate. If she goes, they have nobody left but themselves. And Neo-Cons are absolutely nothing with responsibility.
They have already tried to blame her for Iraq, and can blame her for not going into Iran (she has a grain of sense left). The Neo-Cons without her would have to go into Iran, and the US would be destroyed economically, politically, morally, legal etc. Much better to blame Condi and save just a shard of face left.
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