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Bush names Negroponte Iraq ambassador
During Negroponte’s first full year as ambassador, the Honduran press carried at least 318 stories of extrajudicial attacks by the military. According to the detailed investigation, Battalion 3-16 kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of Hondurans. The unit used “shock and suffocation devices in interrogations. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful, killed and buried in unmarked graves.”
Source: The TIP, 2004-04-19
Candidate: Big Government
Who exactly is John Negroponte? Look at his resume:
Much of his career itinerary reads like a dossier for some future war crimes tribunal:
* 1964-68, political affairs officer at the US Embassy in Saigon;
* 1969-71, aide to Henry Kissinger in the Paris negotiations with the Vietnamese;
* 1971-73, officer-in-charge for Vietnam in the National Security Council, under Kissinger;
* 1973-75, assigned to the US Embassy in Ecuador (he reportedly quit Kissinger’s staff, opposing the Paris settlement as too favorable to the Vietnamese);
* 1980-81, deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs;
* 1981-85, ambassador to Honduras;
* 1987-1989, deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs, reporting to Colin Powell;
* 1989-93, ambassador to Mexico;
* 1993-97, ambassador to the Philippines.
After retiring from the diplomatic corps, he took a well-paid position as vice president for global markets at McGraw-Hill, the big publishing company.
President George W. Bush named John Negroponte, the United States' top diplomat at the United Nations, and now as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Bush said that Iraq "will be free and democratic and peaceful."
Bush announced the nomination in an Oval Office ceremony.
At the United Nations, Negroponte, 64, was instrumental in winning unanimous approval of a Security Council resolution that demanded Saddam Hussein comply with U.N. mandates to disarm.
While the resolution helped the Bush administration make its case for invading Iraq, the Security Council eventually refused to endorse the overthrow of Saddam, opting instead to extend U.N. weapons searches.
Regarding Negroponte's new post, the president said there is "no doubt in my mind he can handle it, no doubt in my mind he will do a very good job, and there's no doubt in my mind that Iraq will be free and democratic and peaceful."
I suppose that depends on what a "very good job" looks like.
The Baltimore Sun reporters found that in 1982 alone, during Negroponte’s first full year as ambassador, the Honduran press carried at least 318 stories of extrajudicial attacks by the military. According to the detailed investigation, Battalion 3-16 kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of Hondurans. The unit used “shock and suffocation devices in interrogations. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful, killed and buried in unmarked graves.” The US embassy under Negroponte's leadership, however, certified the country’s record on human rights in such glowing terms that aides to Negroponte joked that they were writing about Norway, not Honduras.
In Honduras, Negroponte played a prominent role in assisting the Contras in Nicaragua in their war with the left-wing Sandinista government, which was aligned with Cuba and the Soviet Union. Negroponte testified before his Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that he did not believe the abuses were part of a deliberate Honduran government policy. "To this day," he said, "I do not believe that death squads were operating in Honduras."
"He's a diplomat's diplomat," said Bernard Aronson, the State Department's top Latin America official in the first Bush administration, when Negroponte was ambassador to Mexico.
"He's trusted, I think, by the administration. He's certainly very close to the secretary of state and he's unflappable,"
In other words, he does as he's told, has absolutely no scruples, and is willing to murder to get the job done. The perfect ambassador for George Bush. Iraqis will love him.
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User Originated Comments:
From: Salman Elarabi
2004-06-17 11:14:26
witnessing the events in iraq, it is a good thing
that people like negroponte go to
iraq.
before the neo-zion's war, gwb
junior once said that "this man (saddam hussain)
tried to kill my father (former president george
bush)"; responding to this, rather childish
comment, the iraqi leadership suggested a duel
between gwb and saddam hussain. a duel to death
would have ridden the planet of one of two equally
evil tyrants. instead more than ten thousand
iraqis died and about a thousand american soldiers
and a few other mercenaries who were in it for the
loot. send negroponte to iraq and have him duel
with elzarqawi. if elzarqawi get killed, iraq
becomes the seventh member of the gulf
co-operation council, and if negroponte get
killed, the palestinians declare a national
holiday and occupation (which one?) ends!!.
From:
2004-06-09 22:33:35
just like the "maffia" crooked deals are kept in
the "family"......time will tell..
From: Salman Elarabi
2004-05-11 23:23:09
this is the zionist whose job so far has been to
rinse the bloody hands of ariel sharon after every
m-ssacre that he has committed against the
palestinians. this has always been the
zionist’s war. spell the blood of the arabs
with the knife of the fanatical american religious
right. palestine and iraq ((are not (underlined
ten times)) two separate issues. they are the two
inseparable criminal faces of international
zionism.
i seek refuge to god from your
dirty works, may god turn your criminal connive
back into your chests.
****
manufacturing wars and oppression are worse than
killing ***** koran 2-217
From: Iran Contra Anyone?
2004-04-21 02:26:42
hmm. let's see, negroponte played a prominent
role in -ssisting the contras in nicaragua. the
contras were funded by arms sales to iran (while
they were the enemies). this is one sick puppy,
but not a suprise from the meta-magical point of
view.
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