Reply #21: Why were we not all paying attention way back when? [View All]

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/aug2001/cont-a01.shtml

Iran-Contra gangsters resurface in Bush administration
By Patrick Martin
1 August 2001
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The Bush administration appealed to Senate Democrats July 27 to move ahead with the confirmation of two top-level diplomatic nominees whose appointments have been delayed because of their role in defending right-wing dictatorships and death squads in Central America.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden (D-Del) said through a spokesman that a hearing for John Negroponte, nominated for US ambassador to the United Nations, would be held as early as next week. No hearing has yet been set for Otto Reich, nominated for assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs.

Negroponte and Reich are two of the three Bush administration appointees with direct operational roles in the Central American counterinsurgency campaigns of the 1980s. The third is Elliott Abrams, named as director of the office for democracy, human rights and international operations at the National Security Council, a White House position which is not subject to Senate confirmation. Abrams was convicted of lying to Congress about the Iran-Contra affair, but was later pardoned by Bush’s father in 1992.


Impeachable criminals then, same now. They are all back.

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I have to admit though, I was and nothing has surprised me yet except for how we "citizens" have allowed it. That has been the only shock to me. Unbelievable disconnect from reality. I told my hubbie the day that Bush surrounded himself with all his nominees and told us and them how noble we'd all be, "we're going to war".

It sure didn't take long, did it?