How we can stop John Bolton

Trump just named a disgraced warmonger as his National Security Advisor. John Bolton helped engineer the Iraq War, can’t wait to attack North Korea, and is obsessed with bombing Iran. And one thing just got really, really clear: Trump is building a war cabinet.

Even scarier: We can’t directly block Bolton. But — and this is a really big but — we can block Bolton’s war agenda by getting in the way of Trump’s other new war buddy, Secretary of State nominee Mike “Bomb Iran” Pompeo.

John Bolton can waltz right into his new gig, but Mike Pompeo needs to clear a Senate confirmation vote before he can take the reins of the State Department. That’s where we come in. Bolton’s shockwave appointment as National Security Advisor gives us an opening to convince senators that Pompeo is a five-alarm nominee for Secretary of State — but we’ve got to move fast.

Urge the Senate to block Pompeo and shut down Bolton’s war agenda.

Pompeo was already a terrifying war appointment, but Bolton seals the deal. With a Pompeo-Bolton double whammy in power, the Iran Deal could be a goner. And American bombers could be headed for North Korea.

If we don’t stop Pompeo, we could be looking at terrible wars with North Korea and Iran. 

Let’s be clear: Mike Pompeo is a no-holds-barred, Islamophobic, climate change-denying, torture-loving, bomb-dropping, hardcore war hawk who never had any business being our nation’s top diplomat. Just as our movement for peace is showing real signs of progress — potential talks with North Korea, a stinging rebuke of American support for the war in Yemen, and a wholesale rejection of Trump’s attempted cuts at the State Department — a Pompeo-Bolton war cabinet might undo all of that.

But powerful people who should know better have been whispering he might not be that bad. And in the chaos of the Trump era, senators might be tempted to save their energy for the worst cabinet nominees. That’s why your senators need to hear loud and clear from their constituents: Pompeo is as bad as it gets.

Tell your senators: With Bolton at Trump’s right hand, a vote for Pompeo is a vote for war. The only vote on Pompeo is no.

Thank you for working for peace,

Ben, Stephen, Kate, and the team at Win Without War

 

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