Rhode Island Residents: Call Chaffee

That's the word from the John Kerry camp (and several other organizations) to try to stop the placement of John ("We don't need no stinkin' U.N.")Bolton as the U.S. rep on the U.N.

Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island is under enormous political pressure from the White House and right-wing organizations to cast the deciding vote in favor of the nomination of John Bolton to serve as the United States’ Ambassador to the United Nations.

I don’t believe that, in his heart, Senator Chafee thinks we should have a U.N. ambassador who once said “if the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.”

Bolton’s nomination is another example of the Bush Administration’s determination to award high government posts to those who have been the architects of some of the most disastrous foreign policy decisions of the last four years. Why should we retain, much less promote, those who have failed to make America more safe and secure? Donald Rumsfeld? Paul Wolfowitz?

In other words, stop promoting the worst, the people most apt to get us hated even more throughout the world, the people who will vote in Mr. Bush's best interests rather than America's.

If only Kerry had spoken up more during ... y'know.. that little presidential campaign we just had.