Reply #84: Bush's hawk is not fit to be UN envoy, says Powell

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April 23, 2005

Bush's hawk is not fit to be UN envoy, says Powell
From Roland Watson in Washington



THE prospects of John Bolton becoming the next US Ambassador to the United Nations have suffered another setback with Colin Powell, his former boss, raising doubts about his fitness for the job.

General Powell told key Republican senators that President Bush’s controversial nominee was a man of suspect temperament who clashed with colleagues.

The general’s intervention comes after lurid accounts of Mr Bolton’s volatile temper and ill-treatment of subordinates raised eleventh-hour doubts about his confirmation.

In a further blow, the former US Ambassador to South Korea has suggested that Mr Bolton misled the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when under oath earlier this month.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1581058,00.html