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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsElliot Abrams may get the number 2 position at the State Dept????????
http://rare.us/rare-politics/rand-paul-do-not-let-elliott-abrams-anywhere-near-the-state-department/You have to be kidding me. Let's review.
Plead GUILTY to lying to Congress about the Iran-Contra Deal. Pardoned by G.H.W. Bush
Collaborated with the Guatemalan government in waging war and ethnic cleansing of an indigenous native population.
Generally has been a card carrying neocon over the years which gave us Iran-Contra and the other shameful entanglements in Central America during the Reagan administration, not to mention George W. Bush's Iraq invasion based on the false premise of WMDs.
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Elliot Abrams may get the number 2 position at the State Dept???????? (Original Post)
yellowcanine
Feb 2017
OP
You seem surprised. Seems like he fits right in with this traitorous administration.
JTFrog
Feb 2017
#1
I didn't realize that getting pardoned for lying to Congress made one eligible to serve again.
yellowcanine
Feb 2017
#3
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)1. You seem surprised. Seems like he fits right in with this traitorous administration.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)3. I didn't realize that getting pardoned for lying to Congress made one eligible to serve again.
Silly me.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)2. Who better to close the back-door deals with Putin?
Maybe they'll find a spot for Ollie North while they're at it.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)4. Why stop there? How about G. Gordon Liddy while we are at it?
UTUSN
(70,674 posts)5. R#7 & K n/t