Bolton tell all likely to slam State Department, UN

[Poiuyt]

By the end of the year, former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton plans to publish a "tell all" book on his experience in the Bush administration, according to an item in today's Washington Post. The finished product is likely to put the State Department, up for major criticism.

Al Kamen in his "In the Loop" column says that the controversial Bush appointee who stepped down from his ambassadorial post at the new year because he failed to win confirmation from the Senate, does not yet have a publisher selected. But by the end of the year, he still plans to write a book detailing his experiences in the State Department as Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, and later as US Ambassador to the UN. Kamen did not say whether Bolton would tell more of the back story in his role in blocking the recount of the vote in Florida during the 2000 Election.

Kamen suggests that the book will likely focus on his days at the United Nations. He adds that is is not clear "how Bolton will treat his most recent bosses, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice." The columnist notes that Bolton may be more critical of Rice based on the recent North Korea agreement, which the former ambassador publicly criticized. And, he adds, "There are others at State sure to come in for their share of abuse."

The full In the Loop item can be read at the Post's website.

http://www.rawstory.com//news/2007/Bolton_tell_all_like...

[Lautremont]

I like his title: "Behind the Mustache."

Kind of says it all.

[hlthe2b]

1. the only Bolton memoir I'd care to read...

would be one written from his prison celll...and only after many years of his incarceration...

[itsmesgd]

2. he's mad for several reasons:

1. He was not confirmed but the lamest of lame recess appointments.
2. He didn't get to bomb anyone and show what a big man he is.


A diplomat using dimplomacy instead of war, ah nuts.

[Beelzebud]

3. Behind the Shroud: A look behind the Iron Mustache.

[gratuitous]

4. The public breathlessly awaits

Oh, just imagine, if you will, the insights and the revelations to be gleaned from such a man as John Bolton! Hard to believe he doesn't have a publisher all lined up. Has Richard Mellon Scaife finally tired of bankrolling all the looniest hatreds of his beloved right wing?

[Javaman]

5. Recent review of his book just releaseced...

john bolton's book can be summed up with this phrase, "I'm right and everyone else is wrong".

[opihimoimoi]

6. Only the Deluded will buy into his excuses/Crap. ..however.. ..there are millions of peeps who fall

in the NUTZ Category...Damn.....