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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think this speaks volumes about what Politico is really about:
The Man Who Broke the Middle EastBy ELLIOTT ABRAMS
June 22, 2014
Dear dear Elliott was part of Reagan' foreign policy gangsters, a jerk who helped cover up the 1982 Mozote massacre in El Salvador and such an enthusiastic supporter of the illegal contra war run from the White House basement that he happily lied to Congress about the matter -- pleading guilty later during the Iran-Contra investigations, in order to avoid a number of felony charges. Bush One pardoned him, and dear dear Elliott continued to polish his rightwing credentials. Eventually, he ended up with the Project for a New American Century, before landing in the National Security Council during the administration of Bush Two as Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Operations and then as Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs. Many memorable moments involving the themes of Democracy and Human Rights in Near East during the Bush Two era thus probably bear dear dear Elliott's finger prints: what comes to mind, in particular, is the cheerful adoption of the "Salvador option" in Iraq, which brought death squads to the already-destroyed country and filled the morgues there with corpses bearing signs of having been tortured to death by electric drills and such
Dear dear Elliott currently expounds the view that the problems of the Middle East can be laid squarely at the feet of the current president -- as if the policies from 2001 to 2009 had improved the situation in the region and enhanced US prestige there, by reducing Iraq to wreckage and exhibiting to the world a super-power as large-scale torturer
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)blm
(112,919 posts).
merrily
(45,251 posts)Talk about an evil grin, too.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Bush pardoned Abrams (along with Caspar Weinberger, Clair George, Robert MacFarlane, Duane Clarridge and Alan Fiers, Jr.) in the dead of night on Christmas Eve 1992 after he had lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton. Bush was a lame duck president who bought the silence of his co-conspirators in a decade of criminal activity and cut off the Walsh investigation into Iran-contra. Bush had the brass to invent the concept of "the criminalization of policy differences" while unlocking the prison doors for his pals.
Twenty-two years later, we are favored with the opinions and insights of one of those felons. Very nice.
struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)I bet Christmas is a day few read the paper!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Seems like this is the sort of political shenanigans that would be a touchstone of our political discourse. But for some reason, we hear more about "malaise" (a word President Carter never used) or "I was for it before I was against it" than we ever do about this naked criminality.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I have a huge problem with Bill's friendship
With the Bush Crime Family, legitimizing a bunch of criminals... Going to basketball games with junior and hanging with his dad, honoring him on tv.
I find it morally repugnant.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)and who better to do that than a Democrat.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Bush junior just last month went with Bill
to the basketball playoffs showing them laughing and all buddy buddy.
It was a propaganda coup
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Everyone agrees on DU junior is a War Criminal unless they have lost their mind on the Iraq War.
This isn't Presidential nice, nice... this is blatant
propaganda. for the masses to consume on the big screen.
FSogol
(45,355 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)bankrolled by the Cable industry specifically in order to "have a presence" on the internet.
A beast of their own to quote on the air, with that nice fresh online smell. . .
struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)displacedtexan
(15,694 posts)That told me all I needed to know.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)He is strangely quiet while all his partners in crime are on EVERY TV station, spewing their lies. Where IS he? Somewhere painting self portraits, such as REHAB, or an assisted living facility? Maybe after they balance his meds, he will be coherent enough to speak up? He can have his choice of which TV station, time etc., unlike President Obama who was refused access to any of them to address the American people. Not to worry, here comes Jeb, ready to take the helm at the WH, and enrich the wealthy even more. He is the "smart one" in the family. How smart would a person have to be to be smarter than W, Neil, Geo. Sr? Even Babs "Who cares how many body bags are returned?"
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)and the video was leaked
blackspade
(10,056 posts)The fact that this criminal still gets paid to write neocon drivel underscores how broken our political system is.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)What example did Tom Tomorrow use in his cartoon a couple of weeks back when he wanted to show that the GOP was "anti-reality"?
RVN VET
(492 posts)That act, alone, makes him a traitor. According to W's father, at least.
But this is what America has become, folks. The voice and vision we show the rest of the world remains what this evil man and his cronies put out on our own wonderful MSM.
I wonder if his smile is because he's looking at a picture of the disinterred body of a Central American child?