The leading candidate for 'Ambassador to Iraq' is

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Oh.. joy

 

http://www.freep.com/news/nw/notes14_20040414.htm

 

LIKELY AMBASSADOR: Bush administration officials are saying the likely candidate to be ambassador of Iraq is John Negroponte, the current U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

 

The Bush aides spoke on condition of anonymity. There had been some anticipation that President George W. Bush was planning to announce the appointment at his Tuesday news conference but he did not.

 

The U.S. Embassy will be housed temporarily in a palace that belonged to deposed President Saddam Hussein. Once fully staffed, the embassy will be the world's largest.

 

Negroponte, 64, is a career foreign service officer whom Bush recruited from the corporate world to be the U.S. ambassador to the UN. If not Negroponte? The short list includes Robert Blackwill, a former ambassador to India and now director of Iraq policy at the White House, former NATO commander George Joulwan and two retired U.S. ambassadors, Thomas Pickering and Frank Wisner.

 

And from the Negroponte resume:

 

Ambassador to Honduras, 1981-1985

 

"John Negroponte was ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985. As such he supported and carried out a US-sponsored policy of violations to human rights and international law. Among other things he supervised the creation of the El Aguacate air base, where the US trained Nicaraguan Contras during the 1980's." - (source)

 

So, how does this fair for Iraqi democracy and Iraqi human rights under their new government?

[Guest Brian]

I always thought it couldn't get any lower than Wolfowitz.

[Guest MikeSC]

Oh.. joy

 

http://www.freep.com/news/nw/notes14_20040414.htm

 

LIKELY AMBASSADOR: Bush administration officials are saying the likely candidate to be ambassador of Iraq is John Negroponte, the current U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

 

The Bush aides spoke on condition of anonymity. There had been some anticipation that President George W. Bush was planning to announce the appointment at his Tuesday news conference but he did not.

 

The U.S. Embassy will be housed temporarily in a palace that belonged to deposed President Saddam Hussein. Once fully staffed, the embassy will be the world's largest.

 

Negroponte, 64, is a career foreign service officer whom Bush recruited from the corporate world to be the U.S. ambassador to the UN. If not Negroponte? The short list includes Robert Blackwill, a former ambassador to India and now director of Iraq policy at the White House, former NATO commander George Joulwan and two retired U.S. ambassadors, Thomas Pickering and Frank Wisner.

 

And from the Negroponte resume:

 

Ambassador to Honduras, 1981-1985

 

"John Negroponte was ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985. As such he supported and carried out a US-sponsored policy of violations to human rights and international law. Among other things he supervised the creation of the El Aguacate air base, where the US trained Nicaraguan Contras during the 1980's." - (source)

 

So, how does this fair for Iraqi democracy and Iraqi human rights under their new government?

The Contras were better than the Sandanistas.

-=Mike

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Any other comments on the idea of appointing someone with such a questionable human rights record as the ambassador to Iraq?

 

and, so the sins of the Sandanistas make up for the sins of the Contras? (Such as Contra violation of International law). Any comment on the rumors of Honduran death squads and other repression?

[Guest MikeSC]

Any other comments on the idea of appointing someone with such a questionable human rights record as the ambassador to Iraq?

 

and, so the sins of the Sandanistas make up for the sins of the Contras? (Such as Contra violation of International law). Any comment on the rumors of Honduran death squads and other repression?

The Contras did win the fair election when it was held, so they weren't as bad as the Sandinistas, apparently.

 

As for Negroponte, I don't know enough about him to care. I do know that allowing the U.N to get involved would be a catastrophic mistake.

-=Mike

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0]

As for Negroponte, I don't know enough about him to care.

 

Then why post?

[Guest MikeSC]

As for Negroponte, I don't know enough about him to care.

 

Then why post?

1) Most complaints about U.S officials' "violation of human rights" tends to be overblown.

 

2) The thought of annoying you makes me all tingly.

-=Mike

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0]

It's not really annoying, it's just relatively ignorant. So the thought of appointing a man who ignored human rights violations as ambassador to a country whose human rights violations are staggering makes people nervous?

 

Well, damn, that's them dirty libruls after the good ol' boys again!

[Guest MikeSC]

It's not really annoying, it's just relatively ignorant. So the thought of appointing a man who ignored human rights violations as ambassador to a country whose human rights violations are staggering makes people nervous?

 

Well, damn, that's them dirty libruls after the good ol' boys again!

1) Yet again, I doubt his "human rights violations" are even close to how you're blowing them up to be.

 

2) You have any better candidates?

-=Mike

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0]

1) Yet again, I doubt his "human rights violations" are even close to how you're blowing them up to be.

 

As for Negroponte, I don't know enough about him

 

Hm. Oh.

 

2) You have any better candidates?

 

I'd be a splendid choice.

 

 

 

Note: Joke. Before anyone decides to be like OMG TYLOR HAS NO EXPERIENCE! or something.

[Styles 0]

Hey, I got an idea. Let's send Howard Dean over as the ambassador to Iraq. He can scare away all the insurgents with his screaming and foaming of the mouth.

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0]

Hm.

 

Has there ever been a thread in CE that I posted in that you haven't replied--even after the fact--to?

 

I don't think you like me.

[Styles 0]

Hm.

 

Has there ever been a thread in CE that I posted in that you haven't replied--even after the fact--to?

 

I don't think you like me.

Come on you walked into that one, I think.

 

And how does one reply to anything but "after the fact"?

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

2) You have any better candidates?

even the other guys mentioned in the article wouldn't seem quite as questionable.

 

The Contras did win the fair election when it was held, so they weren't as bad as the Sandinistas, apparently.

 

Actually, the party that beat the Sandanistas was a coalition (the United Nicaraguan Opposition, "an alliance of 14 opposition parties ranging from the ultra-conservative business organization COSEP to the Nicaraguan Communist Party"). And the president that was elected had ties to the Sandanistas until 1980.

 

It'd be a bit simplistic to say the Contras won.