Negroponte nominated as intelligence chief

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:44 pm

Another war criminal gets a job working for Bush. Most recently the ambassador to Iraq, here's a bit more background on the man...

From 1981 to 1985, Negroponte was U.S. ambassador to Honduras, where he helped prosecute the contra war against Nicaragua and helped strengthen the military dictatorship in Honduras. Under the helm of General Gustavo Alvarez Martínez, Honduras's military government was both a close ally of the Reagan administration and was disappearing dozens of political opponents in classic death squad fashion. Negroponte's predecessor, Ambassador Jack Binns, had repeatedly warned Washington to take a stand to stop the killings. In one cable, Binns reported that General Alvarez was modeling his campaign against suspected subversives on Argentina's "dirty war" in the 1970s. Indeed, Argentine military advisers were in Honduras, both advising Alvarez's armed forces and assembling and training a contra army to fight in Nicaragua. President Reagan responded by removing Binns and putting in Negroponte, who, writes Eric Alterman in an MSNBC.com piece, "turned a deliberate blind eye to a murderous pattern of political killings."

On Negroponte's watch, diplomats quipped that the embassy's annual human rights reports made Honduras sound more like Norway than Argentina. Former official Rick Chidester, who served under Negroponte, says he was ordered to remove all mention of torture and executions from the draft of his 1982 report on the human rights situation in Honduras.

http://www.fpif.org/republicanrule/offi ... negroponte

More about his career in the above link.

It's like being evil is actually a prerequisite to work for Bush. Of course Bush and Negroponte are close friends and there's absolutely no question about Negroponte's loyalty.

Post by **R00k** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:59 pm

Yea I saw this news earlier this morning on CNN.

How the fuck can he get away with putting so many convicted criminals into public office?

Jesus Christ on a seatless unicycle.

Post by **farad** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:01 pm

...nice to see all the registered liberals in today...

Post by **R00k** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:16 pm

I've never been called a liberal until all you wanna-be republicans started calling Shrub your Shepherd and mistaking his policies for conservatism.

Post by **Transient** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:21 pm

R00k wrote:Jesus Christ on a seatless unicycle.

:icon28:

Post by **tnf** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:11 am

farad wrote:...nice to see all the registered liberals in today...

Prior to Bush's response to 9/11 (where I was finally really able to start seeing the policies he really wanted to shove down our, and the rest of the world's throats), I was not a 'liberal' nor a 'conservative.' I aligned with each party on different issues. Bush's regime is so polarizing, so far to the right, so out of touch with reality, that it is impossible to not be considered a 'liberal' for disagreeing with him. He is so fucking crooked on so many issues that I am continually amazed that even more people haven't abandoned the Republican party.

But here is a great quote to describe him...from his own wife:
"George is not an overly introspective person. He has good he has good instincts, and he goes with them. HE doesn't need to evaluate and re-evaluate a decision. He doesn't try to overthink. He likes action."

Yea, all that thinking, evaluating, re-evaluating, etc...is just liberal mumbo-jumbo. Who needs it? Obviously not the Bush administration. If studies, etc., say things contradictory to what they want, you just need to 'reorganize agencies, reshuffle committees, and re-interpret the data until you get what you get it right.'

Probably why all those Nobel laureates voted for the man. Oh, wait....

Post by **tnf** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:14 am

By the way, here is some good 'liberal' (or just factual) information on Bush's record on the environment.

http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/

Check the year by year stuff...nice outlines of things.

Post by **Canidae** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:49 am

Rook: So your assertion is that Negroponte was a convicted criminal

Another case of speaking before you know/read the facts?

Post by **Ryoki** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:37 am

He was actually never found guilty, but he sure as shit is a criminal - he's almost directly responsible for the death of god knows how many Hondurian farmers.

Post by **R00k** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:15 pm

Canidae wrote:Rook: So your assertion is that Negroponte was a convicted criminal
Another case of speaking before you know/read the facts?

You're right, I wasn't thinking before I posted. He wasn't convicted like Poindexter was. He was just in charge in Honduras when all the death squads were out killing civilians and dissenters.

So he's not a convicted criminal, he's just a criminal in the same way that Wolfowitz is, and Cheney.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:14 pm

even if he was a convicted criminal, it wouldn't matter a lick to post haste. now if the guy was pro-choice, that'd be a different matter.

Post by **Oblivi0.on** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:25 pm

i love not being america.

Post by **R00k** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:47 pm

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:even if he was a convicted criminal, it wouldn't matter a lick to post haste. now if the guy was pro-choice, that'd be a different matter.

ah, it's much clearer to me now.