Cheney defends UN choice of Bolton

Independent
By Rupert Cornwell
24 March 2005


Dick Cheney, America's Vice-President has made clear what has been almost universally suspected - that President George Bush's recent diplomatic appointments are intended to push his agenda of promoting freedom and democracy around the world.

In an interview yesterday with the Washington Post, Mr Cheney said the choice of John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations was intended to shake up the world body. The fact that Mr Bolton, a neoconservative arch hawk, had strongly criticised the UN in the past would give him "a great deal more credibility" there, said Mr Cheney.

The US was host country of, and the biggest contributor to, the UN, whose long-term success "depends, I think, on the continued support of the US and the American people". A lot needed to be done at the UN, Mr Cheney added. "A great many Americans" were unhappy with its performance.

The appointments of Mr Bolton and of Paul Wolfowitz to the Presidency of the World Bank can only strengthen Mr Cheney's already influential role within the administration. Architects of the aggressive Bush foreign policy, they are both allies of the Vice-President.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=623081

These two worthless human beings were given the gate because they messed up the Iraq oil privatization scheme ironically not because they messed up everything else they touched:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/21/1455245
(scroll down to Palast's peroration and his exchange with Amy Goodman that follows)