Watching an excange between Kucinich and John Bolton on C-SPAN this evening has inspired my first diary ever. Kucinich may not be a physically imposing man (what is he like 5'2") but he shook Bolton (who looks like a plantation owner from a Mark Twain novel). Little Dennis asked pointed questions about the legality of the presence of US Special Forces in Iran and continued by quoting from Seymore Hersh's infamous New Yorker article. Bolton responded by calling the article "fiction" and saying he would not read and had no interest in it. Kucinich was astounded.
Next Kucinich asked 'hypothetical' questions about the legality under international law of premptive war and the possibility of a premptive war in Iran. As the questions became more heated and Bolton continued to tap-dance something struck me: What the Fuck is this asshole doing as our representative to the United Nations?
Kucinich was cut off as the two men began to insult eachother. That little elf-man sure does get fired up. If Bolton had a stapler to throw Kucinich might not have been as bold.
Waxman (aka mole man) got in Bolton's ass also about how full of shit his assertions about his lack of involvement in the Iraq WMD distortions were. Waxman stormed off after telling Bolton that he is disapointed in him because "he is not doing his job."
Bolton continued by claiming that
this article was inaccurate and "it [his claims in the article] never happened.
The most offensive part: Bolton stayed for an extra 30 minutes to continue to bull-shit and filibuster. It's like he enjoyed it...what a perfect representative of this administration to the international body that may eventually save the world.