Negroponte - Newsguy - promoted from comments

Gonna promote this from comments to a full entry. Comment was on the "Negroponte Salvador Option" post yesterday. And as always, please forgive any choppiness, the comments section of blogger always feels awkward when you're trying to make a complex point, and the commenter did not write with the thought I would put it on the main page.

So, with that preface, I give you Newsguy:

Good point. If Negroponte is in charge in Iraq, he must have been put there because he had a background that suggested he would do the job in Iraq. And that background seems to be his active direction or at least complicit tolerance for death squads in Honduras.

This is from the Institute for Public Accuracy:

"LARRY BIRNS
Birns is director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, which released the report "Negroponte: Nominee for Baghdad Embassy a Rogue for All Seasons." He said today: "Though the Bush administration is strenuously attempting to portray Negroponte as a distinguished career Foreign Service professional, it should be recalled that his 1981-85 stint as ambassador to Honduras was filled with every form of chicanery, deception -- and later lying to Congress over his role during the Iran-contra era. Rather than heading for Iraq, Ambassador Negroponte should be facing proceedings concerning his sanctioning of Honduran death squads..."

So if he did death squad duty in Honduras, in the eyes of the criminal Bush administration, he is perfect as Ambassador to Iraq.

It seems awfully coincidental that people on Negroponte's watch seem to die en masse, shot, with their hands tied behind their backs. And those murder victims are the people identified with opposition to US presence.

I think Negroponte is a high-class hit man wearing a suit and tie, but carrying the values of a Tony Soprano.

Ånd I think the Bush administration knows damn well who he is. Their public affirmation of torture is just the tip of the iceberg. But it is a clue to their mindset.

In the blogger profile, Newsguy is listed as running two blogs. CommonSense - which I read and liked and Cindy is an American Hero, which I haven't looked at yet, but feel pretty confident by the title that I would agree with.