Khalilzad To Be Nominated For U.N. Post

Bush Set To Name U.S. Ambassador To Iraq To Replace John Bolton At U.N.

(AP)  Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, will be nominated by President Bush to become the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, a senior administration official said Thursday.

Khalilzad, who is Afghan born, has served also as ambassador to Afghanistan. He is likely to be replaced in Baghdad by Ryan Crocker, a veteran American diplomat, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make an announcement for the White House.

Khalilzad would replace John Bolton, whose appointment to the U.N. job expired recently.

The changes come as Bush is expected to announce a new U.S. policy in the Iraq war next week.

He is also shuffling other pieces of his national security team. He is preparing to announce that John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, will become the No. 2 official at the State Department and will be replaced by retired Vice Adm. Michael McConnell.

The appointments must approved by the Senate.

Bush was unable to drive Bolton's confirmation through the Senate, which under Republican control approved Khalilzad for his current job. Bolton's style is more acerbic than Khalilzad's.

Khalilzad, an unusually outspoken diplomat known as a protege of Vice President Dick Cheney, would take the U.N. seat at a time when the world body is in the spotlight in confrontations with Iran, North Korea and in the Middle East.

Khalilzad's move from Iraq to the U.N. has been rumored for months, along with the expectation that Crocker, now ambassador to Pakistan, would succeed him in Baghdad. ABC News first reported Thursday that Bush had made the decision.

The U.S. official said some minor details still must be worked out on Crocker, but they are considered manageable.

Crocker was a senior U.S. representative in Baghdad for several months in 2003, shortly after the U.S. invasion that toppled President Saddam Hussein.

A White House favorite whom Bush calls by his nickname, “Zal,” Khalilzad has worked in two other Republican administrations, those of Ronald Reagan and Bush's father, George H.W. Bush.

The highest-ranked Muslim to serve in the Bush administration, Khalilzad headed the Bush-Cheney transition team for the Defense Department in 2000 and served as a counselor to former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

[bluestardad]

Thanks that is unbelievable!

[observantx]

From 2000 to 2003, PNAC received $170,000 in grants from several conservative foundations: the Earhart, Olin, and William J. Donner foundations.
Bluestar PNAC money sources. This was harder to track down and I don't think this is all of it.

From 1994 to 2004, the New Citizenship Project that sponsored PNAC and whose chairman is Kristol, received $3.3 million in grants, largely from the largest right-wing foundations: Bradley, Olin, and the Scaife Foundations. The Bradley Foundation has been PNAC's largest source of foundation support, granting PNAC $700,000 from 1997 to 2004. In its first year of operations, PNAC received grants from Bradley, Sarah Scaife, and Olin foundations.


Notice how all the funding and memberships interlock.

[observantx]

Bluestar: Another right wing think tank interlocked with PNAC and the Heritage foundation

The American Enterprise Institute has received more than $30 million in funding from sources including the following:

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
Castle Rock Foundation
Coors
Earhart Foundation
JM Foundation
Microsoft Corporation [1]
Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.
John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
Sarah Scaife Foundation
Scaife Family Foundation
Smith Richardson Foundation

Again Oin in the mix.

[observantx]

Bluestar; Info on Heritage foundation. Note that Olin, an arms manufacturer is a heavy contributor.
In 2005 Heritage raised $29.7 million in corporate and individual donations. Core funding comes from conservative foundations and individual donors: In 1995, 31 checks accounted for $8.5 million; another 123 donors supplied $2.6 million.
In 2006, Heritage retained the law firm of Foley & Lardner to lobby and to prepare foundation officials on how to deal with Congress on the issue of banning private funding of congressional travel, meals and lodging.
In 1973, beer baron Joseph Coors contributed a quarter-million dollars to launch The Heritage Foundation. Since then, money has come from the Amway Corp. and right-leaning foundations like the Bradley, Olin and Scaife foundations. Billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife and other wealthy philanthropists also have been generous Heritage Foundation donors.
Heritage has received a long and steady flow of support from nearly 100 major corporations, including Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow Chemical Company, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Mobil, Procter & Gamble, and GlaxoSmithKline. Currently, it has 275,000 individual donors.
Heritage's 1995 annual report acknowledges a $400,000 grant from the Korean conglomerate Samsung. The Korea Foundation, which conduits money from the South Korean government, has given Heritage almost $1 million in the past three years.

[bluestardad]

ObservantX; where does the money come from please?

[bluestardad]

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[bluestardad]

Is this smo another UNICAL executive?

[observantx]

The real issue about this appointment is that Khalizad is a member of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). This is the group of hard ultra right wing ideologue neocons who lied us into this war for their pipedream of world domination. John Bolton was also a member. So we have swapped faces at the UN but the conspiracy continues.

For fun, go look up PNAC and the Heritage Foundation and a few other right wing think tanks and foundations. See how many of this administration%u2019s members belong to one or more of these organizations. There is a lot of cross pollination with these powermongers exerting their influence from more than one direction. Check out where there money comes from also. That%u2019s a real eye opener.

[educates]

well put.
Impeach the B........
ed u cates

[bildooreilly]

Maybe Bush will appoint his old family friend Osama to a high level position next....

[feelfree1]

Was Pat Roberts unavailable?

While Mr. Khalilzad has proven himself to be a chronic and compulsive liar, he is not a very convincing one.

Installing Mr. Khalilzad in this position may well backfire, and further expose the utter rediculousnessness of the Bush regime.

Bring em' on!