CNN: Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick has died

[RamboLiberal]

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick has died, according to the American Enterprise Institute --where she was a senior fellow.

On their news alert web banner.

http://www.cnn.com/

[Kolesar]

1. American Enterprise Institute--the prime warmongering "think tank"

The devil called her home

[YDogg]

2. Washington Post link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/08/AR2006120800492.html

[Eugene]

3. AP: Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ex-Ambassador, Dies

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ex-Ambassador, Dies


Friday December 8, 2006 2:46 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former U.N. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a one-time Democrat
who switched to the Republican Party and warmly embraced Reagan era conservatism,
has died. She was 80.

Kirkpatrick's death was announced Friday at the senior staff meeting of the U.S.
mission to the United Nations, said spokesman Richard Grenell, who said that
Ambassador John Bolton asked for a moment of silence. An announcement of her death
also was posted on the Web site of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-
oriented think tank here where she was a senior fellow.

Kirkpatrick's assistant, Andrea Harrington, said that she died in her sleep at home
in Bethesda, Md. late Thursday. The cause of death was not immediately known.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6267278,00.html

Edited for updated AP story.

Original AP story: Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ex-Ambassador, Dies

[kenny blankenship]

4. Bolton's dismissal too much for her to bear?

[NI4NI]

5. P N A C

IF, there is a heaven, I wonder if the lady will have some explaining to do about her PNAC affilliation and Neo-con beliefs.

[LiberalFighter]

37. If they really believed in a heaven they wouldn't be involved in PNAC

or have Neo-con beliefs.

Which means they are atheists.

[donsu]

6. good - can't do any more harm now

nt

[katsy]

7. Bolton was on teevee crying. Wish I could.

Wish I felt the loss of an admirable statesperson.

But she wasn't and I can't feel anything but good riddance.

[Lautremont]

8. You know who I feel badly for? Opus.

He had a real crush on her, if you recall.

[More Than A Feeling]

9. I think that was Bill the Cat.

:D

[Lautremont]

10. You know what? You're absolutely right!

Now I feel even worse!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

27. you beat me to it

bill and jean's affair ended when bill was revealed to be a russian double agent and was sentenced to death for treason

[Ken Burch]

28. Broke his heart, she did. Bill the Cat was in rehab for months after that...

(although, in fairness, Bill was often in rehab anyway...)

[bluestateguy]

11. She was an ex-Democrat (until 1985)

Hadn't heard much from her recently.

[LiberalFighter]

38. Actually that statement is wrong

She couldn't be an ex-Democrat until AFTER 1985. Before that she was supposedly a Democrat.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. Before 1985, she was a rethuglican who was afraid of

being associated with Nixon.

[High Plains]

12. Farewell to the Wicked Witch of the West

[alfredo]

13. I remember when Reagan was running in 1980, he sent her to

Chile to let Pinochet know that he wouldn't have to worry about sanctions over his human rights abuses. Most likely the RNC got a big check because of that.

[UpInArms]

14. time for a ruby red shoe party!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

15. This is harsh to say...

but good riddance.

The people of Latin America suuffered horribly because of her doctrine of coddling dicators/right-wing administrations so long as they were againts the dreaded "commies".

My one consolation is knowing she spend her last years seeing Chavez and all the other Latin American leftists swept to power. It was 20 years late, but better late than never. That must have chapped her ass. :D

[noonwitch]

16. I know, but she was an influential woman in an administration that was mostly male

I try to focus on the positive when someone dies. Her service as UN Ambassador, even as conservative as she was, was still progress for women overall.

[Demeter]

17. Yeah, She Set Women Back 10-20 Years

One more down, how many 100's to go?

[LiberalFighter]

39. Just like Schafly

[katsy]

18. Neocons don't have gender, religion, race...

their ideology defines them.

Neocons coddle the religiously insane and minorities... but only as far as they can use them in advancing their agenda.

She was an ideologically driven, evil, corrupt neocon. An ann coulter with more polish and unfortunately, more power.

She neither earned or deserves status as a role model for women.

[Ken Burch]

29. A woman's ascension to political power is not always, in itself, a victory for all women.

In the United Kingdom, women who weren't wealthy, white and safely ensconced in corporate and class power gained nothing whatsoever from the rise of Margaret Thatcher. She sent quite a number of Northern Irish women into mourning by letting their husbands or brothers starve to death rather than admit the men were political prisoners.

Palestinian women derived no benefit from the election of Golda Meir.

And Jeane Kirkpatrick shares responsibility for the deaths of thousands of Central American women, and helped prolong the suffering and oppression of Filipino and South African women by lending her support for many years to the preservation of the Marcos regime and apartheid.

To say nothing of the millions of American women who were driven to a lower standard of living by the administration she helped elect in 1980.

[SquireJons]

23. Not only that...

With her being an original neocon, she lived long enough to see her entire life's beliefs put to the test and fail miserably, then get whole sale rejected by the American voters. I'm really glad she stuck around long enough to see that. Thatcher - gone and dead. Reagan - dead, but still plaguing America. Pinochet - gone, almost dead and just about to be imprisoned. All of her good time buddy's are boiling in oil or burning in hell. I'm sure there's room for one more.

Good riddance.

[BeyondGeography]

19. She spoke clearly for liberty

as long as you agreed with her and you were a Republican.

[Nick Fallon]

20. Is this turning into a hate thread?

This is really making the DU look bad. It seems that when a neo con dies, it is all celebrating.

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[Nick Fallon]

22. Thats funny

but low. :lol:

[JI7]

25. not nearly as low as Cheney

and everything he has done and stands for.

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[Ken Burch]

33. duplicate post

self-delete.

[Ken Burch]

34. Don't hold your breath for that

I'm pretty sure Cheney is one of the Undead.

:scared:

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[Nutmegger]

35. You weren't here when Ken Lay died, were you?

Or, even worse, Reagan.

[Nick Fallon]

36. I just don't want the DU to be a hate site

Or DU would be in the same level as the KKK (KKK is to race as DU is to politics)

[davidinalameda]

44. Welcome to DU

and get ready to see that some posters are very hateful

[0007]

43. She was a stupid hateful bitch and deserves the send off she's

getting.

[Zhade]

24. One less murderous ghoul on the planet.

NT!

[SoCalDem]

26. Enjoy the warmth, Jeane. ta-ta

[LiberalFighter]

40. That is all it will be for her... won't be hot enough

[TankLV]

30. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I celebrate her death.

The world was worse off for her having been born.

Fuck her - she certainly fucked the world...

[Joey Liberal]

41. She was a right wing Bitch n/t

[martymar64]

42. She's gone

And nothing's going to bring her back.








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