Ldotters cheer Negroponte pick cause it will "drive us crazy"

[carrowsboy]

Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face! Bwahahahaha

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Reply 1 - Posted by: usmcsarge, 2/17/2005 1:55:59 PM

W surprises us again. Negroponte is indeed a good man. I read some of his essays back in the eagan years and was impressed. A common sense approach to international issues.

Old Marie Sarge

ps - Naturally, the Leftoids and their whores in the LSM will stir up the pot. If W nominated Michael Moore for a post they'd find a way to trash him.


Reply 2 - Posted by: No NWO, 2/17/2005 2:07:17 PM

From my research: "Negroponte and Reich are two of the three Bush administration appointees with direct operational roles in the Central American counterinsurgency campaigns of the 1980s.
Negroponte was US ambassador to Honduras during the years when the right-wing Nicaraguan Contra forces were based in southern Honduras, just across the border from Nicaragua, supplied and armed illegally by the Reagan administration. Abrams was assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs during that period and worked closely with Oliver North in organizing the illegal arms supplies to the Contras. Reich headed the Office of Public Diplomacy, a State Department agency which illegally funded pro-Contra propaganda both in the US and internationally."


Reply 3 - Posted by: pakrat22, 2/17/2005 2:07:33 PM

Negroponte is a great choice. The left, finding nothing to complain about with the pick (or with his #2) are complaining that it took to long. Rather pathetic.


Reply 5 - Posted by: No NWO, 2/17/2005 2:47:41 PM

#3 - You must have slept through the Iran-Contra scandal. Look on the net -- there is a lot of dirt out there on this man


Reply 6 - Posted by: GO3, 2/17/2005 3:37:32 PM

#2,5; I say good for Negroponte! At long last we have an operator in this position instead of some overblown intell squirrel who drafts useless position papers on the latest crop yields in Sierra Leone.


Reply 7 - Posted by: No NWO, 2/17/2005 3:58:37 PM

#6 - Yeh, well before you get too happy check out his background. Just because Bush picked him doesn't make it a good choice.


Reply 8 - Posted by: GO3, 2/17/2005 4:14:21 PM

#7, re-read my post. I'm not happy just because Bush picked him, I'm happy because he doesn't bloviate on the nuances of "engagement," and he doesn't have a propensity to fund leftist think tanks to bloviate on other useless crap. He acts to accomplish the mission.

Intelligence can be a dangerous, rotten, dirty business. If Negroponte did something illegal in Central America, what was it exactly? Be specific.


Reply 9 - Posted by: thelmalou, 2/17/2005 4:30:14 PM

I think this is a good move, if only because it'll send the Left into a hysterical hissy fit. They hate Negroponte. Which means I like him.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Tulsa, 2/17/2005 5:15:16 PM

There's a whole lot of info on the web, Ma'am and a whole lot of it is propaganda, lies and half truths.

Ollie North is a hero, imo, and in the opinion of most. The Col. was right in the middle of that thing to which you refer as 'illegal'. Negroponte was US Amb. to the UN b4 he was US Amb in Iraq.

But the most important thing is: I trust President Bush. He seems to be righting a whole lot of things that should have been righted decades ago.


Reply 11 - Posted by: usmcsarge, 2/17/2005 6:24:33 PM

NONWO's "summary" sounds like it was written by the Dear Commandante School of International Relations. "Right wing", "illegal"; jeez, real neutral modifiers, eh?

90% of the American public was unconcerned about "Iran-Contra". Only inside the Beltway Reagan haters got their knickers in a twist. They salivated over the scandal hoping it would brin down the Gipper. Recall Ben "the liar" Bradlee greeting guests at a cocktail party (at the start of the hearings), "Hey, we haven't had so much fun since Watergate...".

Sad for the Leftoids to fce but the Contras were eventually embraced by the peasantry and were a major cause of the Sandanista's downfall.

VNWIDOW68, I cannot imagine how you conclude he hasn' got what it takes.

Old Marine Sarge


Reply 12 - Posted by: Ida Lil, 2/17/2005 6:27:13 PM

Illegal Contra acts depends on your personal viewpoint. Viewed as actions to help free a country from a particular nasty communist regime the illegal concept only arises in the eyes of left leaning persons. We had a
series of treaties to assist in keeping communism from the Americas period.
Most of the accusations were dems trying to Nixonize Reagan.
There was no proof of illegal drug dealing and none has ever been validated.
Yes arms were involved but were no more illegal than Clinton providing the muslims with weapons to use against the Serbs.
The muslims had been denied arms in sanctions.
Oliver North's conviction was overturned as he was judged guilty in revenge for refusing to implicate his prsident in the
trumpted up charges as were those concerning Iran.
Look at the map and realise that three of the passes into Afghanistan are through Iran. Yes we supplied arms through Iran but not to the Iranians. That commidity was pure and simple cash.
My source was most reliable one who stayed silent until his death last year.

[ClassWarrior]

1. stop. it. you're. driving. me...

...crazy.

<LOL>

NGU.

[Gman]

2. Yup, I'll give 'em that one

They are correct, at least for me, about this.

Negroponte's appointment is in the top 5 outrages of this "administration's".

[Vickers]

3. At least a couple of people on FR are sane

They bring up the Iran Contra illegalities.

[KayLaw]

4. Well that's what's important, right?

So many fools out there.

:crazy:

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. The more far right they are, the faster gravity will take 'em down.

[punpirate]

6. Always surprised...

... at their ability to wash away the facts... such as the Boland Amendment, hundreds of thousands of dead campesinos across the region, and Ollie North's conviction was overthrown by a friendly appeals court judge, asserting that information used in his trial was tainted by the limited immunity provided by Congress.

No validation of drug dealing? Hmmm, wonder what the CIA Inspector General was reporting on, then? Dealing under the table with the Iranians was just a myth, huh?

Extraordinary how much in denial these folks are. :eyes: