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Sunday, March 20th, 2005
Group mobilizes for Bolton nomination Reacting to mounting opposition to the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador, a group leading the fight to boot the U.N. from the U.S. is mobilizing a campaign of support in favor of the Bush appointment. Move America Forward’s “Support John Bolton” campaign will include producing and airing television commercials supporting the nomination on national television networks. In addition, the effort includes a “Support John Bolton” webpage listing the phone number and e-mail addresses of U.S. senators and their staffs involved in the Bolton confirmation battle. Also included on the webpage are clips of Bolton expressing his reservations with the failures of the United Nations and the fact that the organization would not be viable without the United States. Move America Forward has been encouraging its members to contact a number of U.S. senators to express strong and enthusiastic support for John Bolton’s nomination as U.N. ambassador. “Americans have had enough of the fraud, corruption and anti-Americanism that has overrun the United Nations,” declared Melanie Morgan, co-chairman of Move America Forward. “We admire John Bolton’s track record of fighting to put America’s interests first, and his willingness to take a direct and tough approach against those who threaten America’s security and national interests.” Move America Forward said it has been forced to step up its efforts to build support for Bolton’s nomination in light of the “Stop Bolton” effort â?? a project of the Citizens for Global Solutions. In the past few days dozens of left-leaning organizations and websites have joined the anti-Bolton movement, including MoveOn.org, which e-mailed its membership urging them to “call your senator today and ask him to vote against John Bolton as U.N. Ambassador.” “The United Nations will never be successful until it accepts that political and economic freedom are the keys to bringing peace and prosperity to the world,” said Howard Kaloogian, co-chairman of Move America Forward. “Pandering to dictators and despots across the globe will accomplish nothing â?? only the clear enunciating of the principles of liberty will work, and John Bolton will follow in the footsteps of President Ronald Reagan’s great Ambassador to the U.N., Jeanne Kirkpatrick and President Richard Nixon’s appointee, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.” Bolton has never shied away from defending American interests and speaking out against the problems at the U.N. During the first year of the Bush Administration, it was Bolton who notified the United Nations that the U.S. would not abide by the International Criminal Court, which severely eroded American sovereignty. The world court had enjoyed support by President Bill Clinton, and Bolton is reported to have said that the minute he signed the letter nullifying Clinton’s approval of the ICC was, “one of the happiest moments in my government service.” Bolton has ruffled the feathers of those in the “Blame America First” crowd with his strident opposition to the policies of the U.N. Bolton declared in a 1994 speech that, “there is no United Nations. There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world ... the United States.” Morgan warned that the Bolton confirmation hearings are likely to be some of the ugliest seen in the U.S. Senate. “When John Bolton stood up to the nuclear weapons toting regime in North Korea, the terrorist-supporting leadership called Bolton ‘human scum,’” she said. “John Bolton will be lucky to be treated any better by those who oppose his nomination, including the U.S. Senators who will serve as the agents for the Stop Bolton smear machine. The John Kerry and Ted Kennedy crowd just don’t understand how wrong they are or how fed up the American people are with their ‘Blame America First’ hysterics.” |
