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2003-04-09 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2003-04-09 09:35 am|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Was he tapping a truncheon when he said it?

Posted by mojo 2003-04-09 09:57:42|| 2003-04-09 09:57:42|| Front Page Top

#2 We are hopeful that a number of regimes will draw the appropriate lesson from Iraq

Which is that while you can defy the UN with impunity, you better listen to what the USA and its allies say.

This is an object lesson far beyond the Arab world. About time IMHO!

Posted by Phil B 2003-04-09 10:01:20|| 2003-04-09 10:01:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Yet another sign that that at least some parts of the State Department have figured out that they work for the USA. September 11th cleared more than few heads.

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-04-09 11:11:55|| 2003-04-09 11:11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 IIUC Bolton is not Foreign Service, he's a neocon Cheney insisted on. Cabinet members dont generally pick their direct reports, IIUC, the White House does.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-04-09 11:18:51|| 2003-04-09 11:18:51|| Front Page Top

#5 State Dept.: Oh, and while your autocratic regimes crumble from the accumulation of backwards values and willful ignorance, our nation grows stronger every day, our military grows stronger every day. Iraq was supposed to be the non-Isreali bad-ass of the Middle East, and they folded within a month. Eh, ah Assad, you think the Syrian people would support you...or US?

thank you, drive through

Posted by defscribe 2003-04-09 11:28:10|| 2003-04-09 11:28:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah, liberalhawk is right, Bolton is a political appointee. Rest assured that a bunch of State is trying to undermine him as we speak. But, it's still nice to hear.

Posted by John Thacker 2003-04-09 12:42:33|| 2003-04-09 12:42:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Bolton must be working for the DOD, State is an official annex of the Chiraq government.

Posted by TJ Jackson 2003-04-10 00:43:08|| 2003-04-10 00:43:08|| Front Page Top

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