Ah, Diplomacy

I actually saw this Sunday, but in an printed copy of the paper:

John R. Bolton flew to Europe in 2002 to confront the head of a global arms-control agency and demand he resign, then orchestrated the firing of the unwilling diplomat in a move a U.N. tribunal has since judged unlawful, according to officials involved.


GROPING for, um, an answer...

Geez--makes you wonder how he managed at Plato's Retreat...well, on the other hand, maybe I DON'T want to know any of those details...

[Jose] Bustani, who says he got a "menacing" phone call from Bolton at one point, was removed by a vote of just one-third of member nations at an unusual special session of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), at which the United States cited alleged mismanagement in calling for his ouster.

Seems as if Mr. Bustani held the then untenable position that illegal weapons in Iraq was a matter best left first to inspections--but that would have meant skipping out on all the fun of an invasion.

Of course, the subsequent deaths resulting from all the fun aren't all that funny--are they?

So, let's see...down in Guantanamo there's the Freedom Prison, which, as Juan Cole correctly notes, is more indicative of Team Bush's opinion of the Bill of Rights than anything else--and John Bolton is the personification of what they think of the UN.

And here's what they think of the people they were so keen on "liberating."