[Peace] (Fwd) URGENT -- Help change Lincoln Chafee's mind before Thurs

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*** Our effort to stop John Bolton's confirmation as UN
Ambassador is at a critical point. Please take action -- today
-- to make a difference. ***

http://ga4.org/campaign/boltonchafee/skkkn84l5jxtie?

Thursday morning, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will 
be
meeting to vote on John Bolton's nomination. As it stands, a
10-8 party line vote of the Republican-controlled committee
would favorably send Bolton's nomination to the Senate floor for
a final vote by the full body, where confirmation is likely.

But we still have a chance to stop the Bolton nomination in
Thursday's committee meeting before it reaches the Senate floor.

My Democratic colleagues and I have been working overtime to try
to convince at least one fellow Republican committee member to
join with us -- to resist the arm-twisting from the White House
and the Senate Republican leadership, and to instead do the
right thing by rejecting this terrible nomination.

At this point, our best chance may well rest with Republican
Senator Lincoln Chafee from Rhode Island. Unfortunately, Senator
Chafee has decided to reluctantly support the Bolton nomination,
despite the fact that a new Zogby poll shows over 80% of Rhode
Islanders oppose the nomination. I need your help right now and
over the next 24 hours to personally lobby Senator Chafee to
change his mind:

(1) Sign my petition to Senator Chafee now, urging him to vote
down Bolton's nomination.

http://ga4.org/campaign/boltonchafee/skkkn84l5jxtie?

(2) Call Lincoln Chafee's Senate office at (202) 224-2921 and
log your opposition to John Bolton.

We all know that John Bolton is absolutely the wrong choice to
be America's next UN Ambassador. But before you call Senator
Chafee's office, I wanted to remind you of a few of the many
reasons why:

* John Bolton has politicized the intelligence-gathering
process. The last thing we should be doing is promoting
officials who try to twist intelligence in order to create
"imminent threats" to our country -- especially in light of the
debacle in Iraq, where over 1,600 soldiers have died, over
12,000 soldiers have been injured, plus countless other
innocents of the war.

* John Bolton has shown disdain for the United Nations
throughout his career. We all want to reform the UN. But why
would we send someone who is so disrespected -- someone who 
said
"there is no United Nations" and "if [the UN Headquarters] lost
10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."

* John Bolton has shown a pattern of trying to fire subordinates
for no good reason. In every case he was overruled, but his
behavior and vindictiveness had a chilling effect on independent
intelligence analysts. It got so bad at one point that Secretary
of State Colin Powell himself had to make a special trip to
visit the analysts and boost their morale.

* John Bolton has not been truthful with the Foreign Relations
Committee. He led the committee to falsely believe that he
didn't really care that these intelligence analysts didn't give
him the information he wanted and he just "shrugged it off".
Nothing could be further from the truth -- he went after them
aggressively. He also didn't tell the truth about the comments
he said he received from the Ambassador to South Korea whom 
he
said complimented him. In fact, the Ambassador was very critical
of him.

* Many leading opponents to the Bolton nomination come from
within the Bush Administration. The strongest criticism of John
Bolton comes from Republicans, including self-described
conservative Carl Ford, who called Bolton a "serial abuser."

It's remarkable to me that despite all of this evidence and so
much more, not a single Republican on the Foreign Relations
Committee has been willing to oppose this ill-conceived
nomination -- yet. 

Help change Senator Chafee's mind. Please sign my petition and
call him today!

http://ga4.org/campaign/boltonchafee/skkkn84l5jxtie?

Lincoln Chafee has always said that he is independent minded.
Well, today I publicly call on him to step out front on this --
to do the right thing and oppose John Bolton's nomination. 

And your follow-up to Senator Chafee's office by signing my
petition and making a phone call may well make the difference.

http://ga4.org/campaign/boltonchafee/skkkn84l5jxtie?

Thanks for your help on this critical issue!

In Friendship,

Barbara Boxer

P.S. After signing this petition, don't forget to phone Senator
Chafee's office at (202) 224-2921!

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