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To Ousted Boss, Arms Watchdog Was Seen as an Obstacle in IraqBy MARLISE SIMONS at the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/world/to-ousted-boss-arms-watchdog-was-seen-as-an-obstacle-in-iraq.html?_r=0
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PARIS More than a decade before the international agency that monitors chemical weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize, John R. Bolton marched into the office of its boss to inform him that he would be fired.
He told me I had 24 hours to resign, said José Bustani, who was director general of the agency, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. And if I didnt I would have to face the consequences.
Mr. Bolton, then an under secretary of state and later the American ambassador to the United Nations, told Mr. Bustani that the Bush administration was unhappy with his management style.
But Mr. Bustani, 68, who had been re-elected unanimously just 11 months earlier, refused, and weeks later, on April 22, 2002, he was ousted in a special session of the 145-nation chemical weapons watchdog.
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To Ousted Boss, Arms Watchdog Was Seen as an Obstacle in Iraq (Original Post)
applegrove
Oct 2013
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applegrove
(118,677 posts)1. I wonder if Bolton will be running for President in 2016?
struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)2. I'll always wonder if John was named for the bolts in his neck
applegrove
(118,677 posts)3. He has chased people down the hall of hotels.