A Nuclear Blunder? - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com

A Nuclear Blunder? - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com: "�John was absent without leave� when it came to implementing the agenda that the president laid out in his February 2004 speech, a former senior Bush official declares flatly. Another former government official with experience in nonproliferation agrees. �Everyone knew the conference was coming and that it would be contentious. But Bolton stopped all diplomacy on this six months ago,� this official said. �The White House and the National Security Council started worrying, wondering what was going on. So a few months ago the NSC had to step in and get things going themselves. The NPT regime is full of holes�it's very hard for the U.S. to meet our objectives�it takes diplomacy.� "