Ex-Diplomat: Bolton Lacks Needed Qualities (Former colleague) [View All]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/25/AR2005042501128.html

WASHINGTON -- A former colleague of John R. Bolton says President Bush's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations "has none of the qualities needed for that job."

Bolton "has all the qualities needed to harm the image and objectives in the U.N. and its affiliated international organizations. If it is now U.S. policy not to reform the U.N but to destroy it, Bolton is our man," Frederick Vreeland, a former U.S. ambassador to Morocco, said in an e-mail to the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. snip

Vreeland, who worked with Bolton in the early 1990s under the first President Bush, said Bolton "dealt with visitors to his office as if they were servants with whom he could be dismissive, curt and negative."

"He spoke of the U.N. as being the enemy," Vreeland added in the e-mail sent Friday to Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden. The e-mail was first reported by Time magazine. "It is totally erroneous to speak of Bolton as a diplomat."

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