Tell President Bush to nominate...
Tell President Bush to nominate a different US Ambassador to Croatia NOT Robert Bradtke
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Fax: 1-202-456-2461
Email: comments@whitehouse.gov
State Dept: usunpublicaffairs@state.gov
President Bush announced he will nominate Robert Bradtke as the next US Ambassador to Croatia.
Mr. Bradtke is a State Department official who supports the UN ICTY. Last summer, State Department officials told Members of Congress not to allow an amendment to go to vote which would have cut US funding to The Hague unless indictments are dropped against Croatian journalists. The US State Department called the journalists, “not real journalists” and forced Congress to pull the amendment.
In 2004, Mr. Bradtke gave the following testimony to the Congressional House International Relations Committee:
“Nothing impedes progress toward that goal more than the continued freedom of individuals indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Individuals such as Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and Ante Gotovina are responsible for some of the worst crimes of the wars of the 1990's, and their links to criminal and nationalist groups retard progress in the region.”
What is “criminal” is that a US State Department official blatantly providing false testimony to the United States Congress. What is “criminal” is that the US State Department meets with Serbs inside the State Department, while refusing to meet with members of the Croatian Worldwide Association who have repeatedly sent requests for a meeting.
Please call and email President Bush and tell him:
“Croatians want you to nominate another US Ambassador to Croatia. We want an ambassador who will stand up to the corrupt practices of Carla Del Ponte. We want indictments dropped for our indicted journalists and we want an ambassador who will not lie to the U.S. Congress regarding Croatia’s hero, General Gotovina, who along with the Croatian Army stopped the Milosevic/Karadzic/Mladic Serbian aggression and occupation. Thank you.”
For more background, please read “The State Department War against Croatia.” Click Here...
SPC delegation with Nicholas Burns in U.S. State Department (April 2005)
