Bolton agitates audience (Yale)

[deminks]

http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=30127

It was a bittersweet homecoming for United Nations Ambassador John Bolton '70 LAW '74, a former chair of the Conservative Party who returned to the Yale Political Union Monday evening amid a chorus of hisses and politically charged questions.

The audience interrupted Bolton throughout his speech with loud banging on desks and hissing, the typical YPU expressions for approval and disagreement. When asked about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, Bolton said the U.S. -- not other countries or international organizations ­-- should hold its own citizens accountable for possible abuse.

"We don't need anybody else to judge us," he said. "We judge our own."

Some students said they thought Bolton was too controversial and combative, reflecting U.S. Senate Democrats' concerns about his ability to be a successful diplomat. Congressional opposition forced U.S. President George W. Bush '68 to appoint Bolton in a recess appointment this summer.

[CottonBear]

1. At least the YPU is allowed to express disent in front of a * official.

I didn't know Bolton was a Yale law school graduate.
He is one very scary dude. :(

[drduffy]

2. Bolton is a POS

hiss hiss hiss

herbicide for all neocons....get the roots, not just the parts above ground.

[karlrschneider]

3. "...expressions for approval and disagreement"???????

WTF does -that- mean?

[libnnc]

4. did he throw staplers at them?