Bye bye Bolton - Part 2

Bob sends some past links to Condi's new assistant and replacement for John Bolton: Robert Zoellick.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was inaugurated as President of Brazil; the United States snubbed the celebration of Brazil's first leftist, working-class president by sending the U.S. trade representative, Robert Zoellick, whom Lula dismissed as "the subsecretary of a subsecretary of a subsecretary," after Zoellick warned that Brazil would be exporting its products to Antarctica if it didn't support President Bush's economic policies.

  Harper's Weekly quote at Bob's post

Robert B. Zoellick, the United States trade representative, had warned that the administration would decide by this week whether to sue the Europeans for what he called their "immoral" opposition to genetically modified food that was leading to starvation in the developing world.

  NY Times quote at Bob's post

Of course, that was at the time that Europe was refusing to purchase our GM food.