Lengthy Bolton Profiles Show 'Softer' Side Of Bush's Bitch

Two lengthy profiles of Bush UN nominee John Bolton provide a fuller picture of the guy. The New York Times gives us his life story, with one notable success including working at the UN to get foreign diplomats to agree they'd repeal the UN resolution equating Zionism with racism. The LA Times has a long profile too, with its angle being that much of the complaints against Bolton are payback from a far more moderate State Department where he butted heads with Powell and all the less-than-far-right career folk ensconced there. (The State Department was basically enemy territory to the far right.)

But here's the less-than-encouraging quote from Condi Rice about Bolton, per Senate aides.

"We think that we can control him," Rice told one senator, two Senate aides said. "If he strays from the reservation, he's out."

They THINK they can control him. Wow, what an endorsement for a diplomat.