We just can’t get rid of this guy, he’s like a chihuaha pulling on a pantleg. First, his history as a consultant with Unocal just grated against my nerves. But seriously, I don’t consider him much different than Karzai. Karzai releases terrorists, ‘forgives’ the Taliban, and Khalilzad has done pretty much the same thing. I just have this feeling that Khalilzad has had something to do with the so-called ‘victims’ of the Haditha incident and others getting payment from the American government for turning on American soldiers for crimes alleged by known terrorists.

First, Khalilzad is Ambassador to Afghanistan, where he started asking ‘who shot first?’ when coalition soldiers and others were killing the Taliban, or would get into a firefight with terrorists. When he screws that up sufficiently, he’s given an award by Karzai and then switched over to be Ambassador to Iraq (while still keeping his hands on what’s happening in Afghanistan), and happened to be on vacation when the Saddam Hussein hanging discussions were going on before Eid.

Now I find out the reason he’s losing his job as Ambassador to Iraq is that he’s been appointed by Bush to be–oh my god-US Ambassador to the United Nations!!! Khalilzad is Sunni, and he was trying to urge the Iraqis to wait to hang Saddam Hussein. huh. Do you think it’s a good thing to have this man as US Ambassador to the UN? This is a crazy move! We go from John Bolton, who belonged there giving all those anti-American nuts some grief, to Ambassador Khalilzad who in my mind has already proven himself to be too willing to work with terrorists and work for their ‘rights’ over that of Americans. This cannot be good.

Khalilzad has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

From 1979 to 1986, Dr. Khalilzad was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.

Meanwhile, Karzai has an eighth grade education with a bunch of honorary degrees.