Negraponte - the new ambassador to Iraq

[Jason McCullough]

Good god, this is appalling. It's like nominating Kissinger, but even he didn't personally direct people to run assassination squads.

[Brian Rubin]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/14/politics/14ENVO.html

Dandy...just dandy...

[noun]

Curiously, "bodycount of more than 900 Nicaraguans" appears to be missing from that article...

On the other hand, don't you think Iraqis would take this guy seriously?

[Jason McCullough]

Curiously, "bodycount of more than 900 Nicaraguans" appears to be missing from that article...

On the other hand, don't you think Iraqis would take this guy seriously?

They'd seriously think we'd decided to start acting like the person we overthrew, probably.

[Midnight Son]

Are we gonna be putting up statues of Negroponte for freedom fighters to pull down? Just wondering...

[extarbags]

Whew. For a second, I thought this was going to be Nick Negroponte.

[Brian Rucker]

That can't be right. It'd be as psychotic as naming his fellow Contra conspirator Adm. John Poindexter (http://www.hereinreality.com/bigbrother.html) to run domestic intelligence gathering operations for The Pentagon. Oh, wait.*




*Operations were finally shut down, sort of...but Poindexter is gone at least. We think...

[Brian Rubin]

It's official:

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_US_AMBASSADOR?SITE=CALOS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT