Reply #119: H2O Man knows a lot about Armitage. Here's something I found.

[robertpaulsen]

John Bolton, Loose Cannon

By Steven C. Clemons

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Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage were incensed at Bolton's August 2001 comments to Russian media implying the United States was setting a deadline for Russia to agree to modifications of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty or face U.S. abrogation. Bolton denied making the comments, suggesting that he was misunderstood, and the situation was "walked back." However, the senior State Department hierarchy was on edge about Bolton's behavior and his reckless disregard for process and protocol when it came to key national-security and official foreign-policy pronouncements.

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Bolton is a reckless man. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee needs to interview Ambassador Pritchard and other key staffers in the State Department hierarchy who know about our engagement with North Korea.

Frankly, I suspect Richard Armitage knows all of this. He should be called not to weigh in on John Bolton's character, which would be inappropriate and not consistent with the class Armitage demonstrated in his role at State, but he could easily and quickly inform the committee who was consistent with U.S. foreign policy objectives and who was not.

My hunch is that Armitage and Powell, if asked, would say Jack Pritchard was doing what he should have done to further President' Bush's foreign-policy objectives.

http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=article&DocID=2316



I'll check my bookmarks to see what else I have.