Negroponte, what he is.

[TrustingDog]

...a war criminal, amongst many in this administration.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/09/allen2509.html

In from the Cold
by Terry J. Allen

Like spooks from an abandoned B-Movie graveyard, officials of the Reagan-Bush era are emerging from the dirt and showing up inside the George W. Bush administration. The latest resurrection is John Negroponte, whom Bush recently nominated as ambassador to the United Nations.

As U.S. ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, Negroponte abetted and covered up human rights crimes. He was a zealous anti-Communist crusader in America's covert wars against the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the FMLN rebels in El Salvador. The high-level planning, money and arms for those wars flowed from Washington, but much of the on-the-ground logistics for the deployment of intelligence, arms and soldiers was run out of Honduras. U.S. military aid to Honduras jumped from $3.9 million in 1980 to $77.4 million by 1984. So crammed was the tiny country with U.S. bases and weapons that it was dubbed the USS Honduras, as if it were simply an off-shore staging ground.

[theresistance]

1. Old news, but important news

Now of course he is ambassador to Iraq where they are considering Central American-like death squads (as per previous DU threads)...

[TrustingDog]

2. yes, old news, but there are a lot of new people here lately.

let us never forget who these thugs are and where they came from and what they have done.

[theresistance]

3. Absolutely, we can never stop hammering...

these bastards, because they never stop in their pursuits of war and domination. Look at the 1990's when there was a brief respite with Bill Clinton. They formed up patiently into the PNAC and other think tanks, scheming away, waiting to take back power...

[TrustingDog]

4. we ARE all in trouble...

Holbrooke pointed out that Negroponte has already been confirmed several times by Democratic-controlled congresses, in 1989 and 1993, despite opposition sparked by his record in Vietnam and Central America. “He’s gotten through before in a more liberal Congress, so I don’t see why he’d have trouble now,” the Clinton administration official said, adding, “We need a professional on the job. If professional diplomats are penalized for carrying out the instructions of their government, then we’re all in trouble.”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/aug2001/cont-a01.shtml
Iran-Contra Gangsters Resurface in Bush Administration