Bush to name Negroponte Iraq ambassador

[maddezmom]

Bush to name Negroponte Iraq ambassador

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


US Ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte speaks to reporters after he briefed Security Council members on the situation in Iraq at UN headquarters in New York Friday, April 16, 2004. Negroponte urged countries Friday to contribute troops for a new force dedicated to protecting U.N. staff and facilities. (AP Photo/David Karp)
WASHINGTON -- President Bush plans to name John Negroponte, the United States' current ambassador to the United Nations, as the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, an administration official said Monday.

The president planned to make the announcement in the Oval Office later Monday, the official said.

Bush had recruited the 64-year-old Negroponte from the corporate world to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

In New York, Negroponte, a career foreign service officer, worked to help win agreement on expanding the mandate of an international security force in Afghanistan after the overthrow of the Taliban government.

Negroponte will become ambassador in Baghdad when the United States hands over political power to an interim Iraqi government by a June 30 deadline.

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Iraq%20US%20Ambassador

[deutsey]

1. Oh wonderful.

:eyes:

[proud patriot]

2. Stupid Stupid Stupid People

:grr:

[demnan]

3. I heard something about this on Sunday

and thought I was hallucinating or something.

[whistle]

4. When the going gets tough....

...BushCo operatives head for the hills!!! Chicken Hawks:wtf:

[Tempest]

5. Naturally Bush would appoint a convicted criminal

Just like he did Chabali to the IRC.

[madrchsod]

6. alittle to late

if they would have put him in charge in the first place things may have been alot different. i guess it`s better than what they had....

[Just Me]

7. They must pick certain people just to p*ss off everyone,...

,...in the international community. I mean, C'MONNNNNN,...Negroponte!!! Yak :puke:

[BOSSHOG]

8. Agnew to replace cheney

bush needs an infusion of integrity in his administration and after interviewing 140,000 republican party members it was determined that a living republican could not fit the bill. Agnews body will be placed in a hidden bunker where he will hold no press conferences but occasionally say something vice presidential. wall street indicates cheney has a job lined up with a big corporation.

[ender]

9. could be worse...

he couldve appointed kissinger.

[blindpig]

14. too hands on for that fixer n/t

[eileen from OH]

10. So, wonder when Bremer's book will come out.

Wouldn't that be a kick in the bunnypants?

eileen from OH

[OutlawCorporatePolls]

11. Battalion 316

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&q=battalion+316&btnG=Search

and another yaley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte

[Barrett808]

16. "I do not believe that death squads were operating in Honduras"

Negroponte testified 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."

Looks like the decision is to bring the Central America policy to Iraq.

[MGKrebs]

12. They are setting Negroponte up to be

the Ambassador to Iraq. Ya' see, once the Iraqi "government" takes over, we will no longer be able to (legally) go around assassinating people and bombing towns and farms. So if you need someone to handle some black market arms deals and organize some extra-legal pseudo-military activities, you can't do better than Negroponte. Well, maybe Kissinger, but he's getting a little old.

[Beetwasher]

13. They Replace One Moran Who Doesn't Know the Language and Culture

With another moran who doesnt' know the language and culture...

Way to go morans!

[KissMyAsscroft]

15. More proof that Bush believes he is untouchable.

Appointing Kissinger, and now this.

He doesn't care. His attitude is, what are you going to do about it...we control congress.

He gets a kick out of appointing these people. He gets a kick out of shoving controversial things down the world's throat.

[Tracer]

17. C'mon. Give SmirkBoy a break!

Since the psychopathic turd doesn't KNOW anyone who isn't a liar, crook, cheat or crony, who the hell else could he possibly appoint?

[chelaque liberal]

18. Molly Ivins got it right

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=16773

Meanwhile, back in the real world, the administration has announced its intention to make John Negroponte our first ambassador to postwar Iraq, to take up residence in what will be the world's largest embassy after June 30. Negroponte was one of the key figures in the Iran-Contra scandal, the cockeyed plot that sold American arms to Iran and used the money to finance an illegal war in Nicaragua. So, our first ambassador will be a man who armed Iraq's enemy during that war.
Negroponte speaks no Arabic, he is a specialist in covert operations in Latin America, and he has no Middle East experience aside from the Iran-Contra insanity. He is, however, a bona fide, certified, chicken-fried neo-con. Is anyone else appalled?

[Toucano]

26. Molly's summary is all you need to know. Bravo! n/t

[President Jesus]

19. Negroponte's list of campaign contributions

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_result.php?first=John&last=Negroponte&st=

[JCMach1]

20. Negroponte= thousands of right-wing murders in Central America

Who better to work in Iraq?

John Negroponte worked closely with General Alvarez, Chief of the Armed Forces in Honduras, to enable the training of Honduran soldiers in psychological warfare, sabotage, and many types of human rights violations, including torture and kidnapping. Honduran and Salvadoran military were sent to the School of the Americas to receive training in counter-insurgency directed against people of their own country. The CIA created the infamous Honduran Intelligence Battalion 3-16 that was responsible for the murder of many Sandinistas. General Luis Alonso Discua Elvir, a graduate of the School of the Americas, was a founder and commander of Battalion 3-16. In 1982, the US negotiated access to airfields in Honduras and established a regional military training center for Central American forces, principally directed at improving fighting forces of the Salvadoran military.

In 1994, the Honduran Rights Commission outlined the torture and disappearance of at least 184 political opponents.

It also specifically accused John Negroponte of a number of human rights violations. Yet, back in his office that day in 1982, John Negroponte assured us that he had no idea what had happened to the women we were looking for. I had to wait 13 years to find out. In an interview with the Baltimore Sun in1996 Jack Binns, Negroponte's predecessor as US ambassador in Honduras, told how a group of Salvadorans, among whom were the women we had been looking for, were captured on April 22, 1981 and savagely tortured by the DNI, the Honduran Secret Police, before being placed in helicopters of the Salvadoran military. After take off from the airport in Tegucigalpa, the victims were thrown out of the helicopters. Binns told the Baltimore Sun that the North American authorities were well aware of what had happened and that it was a grave violation of human rights. But it was seen as part of Ronald Reagan's counterinsurgency policy...
http://www.afrocubaweb.com/negroponte.htm

[Aidoneus]

21. Good choice, Negroponte already has wide experience in the necessary field

He's already well-skilled and practiced in:
-----organizing death squads as "Ambassador"
-----overseeing the slaughter of thousands so US business can reap larger profits
-----lying about it
-----getting away with it
-----moving on to his next assignment, doing more of the same

Go ahead and send him there, maybe there's a streetlight in Baghdad with his name written all over it.

[Ilsa]

22. What other evil doers are we sending to Iraq?

Good riddance. I hope he loves it over there. He'll probably be as blind to every form of human rights violation there as he was when he was in Honduras.

I wonder if we could send a few other convicted felons like Ollie North and G.Gordon Liddy.

[anarchy1999]

23. There needs to be heard a national outcry! NO WAY!

When Kissinger was "appointed" by Bush to head the 9/11 commission there was plenty of opposition. The same thing must happen again. Does anyone here think for a minute that the people of the mid-east have forgotten the "Iran-Contra" affair?

Maybe most Americans have, but I guarantee the people of Iraq and Iran have not!

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! But then, is there anything that this administration does that isn't?

[Raenelle]

24. Hey, in for a dime, in for a dollar.

I'm of the school that, while I'd be furious about such an outrageous appointment if the appointment mattered, it doesn't matter here. This is the Republic of FUBAR--what difference either way could Negroponte make. He's delusional about the scope and uses of American power--so how does that make him different from any other person already over there, or any other person whom aWol might appoint?

[teryang]

25. This is a grim message for Iraqis

And a major provocation. I assumed they'd have to go black ops/secret police with the overt military operations failing to produce the desired results. This isn't too subtle.

Von Ribbentrop has been appointed Ambassador to Iraq.

[UpInArms]

27. criminals run together

and this mal-administration is full of them

John Negroponte. Appointed by Bush to ambassador to the UN. Negroponte served under Reagan as ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985. He is known for his role in the coverup of human rights abuses by CIA trained paramilitary forces throughout the region. It has been suggested that the vast amount of evidence and testimony supporting the human rights violations would have required that Mr. Negroponte live in total isolation not to have noticed the crimes. Coincidentally, Honduran exiles associated with the paramilitary forces that had been living in he US were exported to Canada prior to Negroponte's Senate confirmation hearing, thus rendering their testimony unavailable.

http://foolmoon.com/showflat.php?Board=UBB18&Number=162732

[evworldeditor]

28. Meet John Negroponte

Here's another link about his background. I can't believe we American's are so stupid to allow this BS to continue....


http://www.sfcall.com/issues%202001/5.21.01/meet_john_negroponte.htm

[bobbieinok]

29. and HONDURAS IS PULLING TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ

[0rganism]

30. Well, that should put a stop to all the speculation about democracy

Negroponte is just the guy to fill Saddam's old shoes. Bravo. Couldn't have installed a better tyrant.

[cliss]

31. This is a bad, bad man.

Listen to Air America if you want to get the scoop on him.

His name actually means 'Black Bridge', but I interpret it as 'Black Heart'.

[SpiralHawk]

34. Black Bridge makin da scene in Babalon

Gonna port some nasty moves into the aNcieNt kReaky SyStemz. Same as it ever was. A Bridge Too Far.

Time and chance happeneth...

[BeHereNow]

32. Oh Dear GOD!

This is VERY bad-
VERY, VERY, VERY bad.
Let's just staff all the day care centers
with pedophiles while we are at it.

Unfortunately, there will be no significant
opposition from the 'murikkans-
THEY ARE TOO FUCKING IGNORANT TO KNOW WHO HE IS.

I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO disgusted
to hear this...those poor people.
AND think of this- ALL of those mercenary, unaccountable,
private soldiers situated over there, ready to do his
murderous bidding.
Oh Jesus, help us all.

BHN

[jackstraw45]

33. CALL YOUR DEMOCRATIC SENATORS

and urge them to "put a HOLD on Negroponte's confirmation" until answers from the administration are given over a strategy for Iraq and the $700 million misappropriateed funds.