Bolton's just garnish - the real nemesis is Negroponte

[JackRiddler]

Yeah, Bolton's a nightmare and all, but just the kind of sociopath you may actually representing the Bush admin to the world, making a complete mockery of it. As long as the mob's in charge, Mr. Cleans like Powell are more of a problem, as they create the illusion it's anything other than a mob.

What's a lot more frightening is the ongoing reorganization of all intel services under the aegis of the incoming Negroponte.

Check out this excellent summation of the man's death-squad career and the situation we are facing by the great Frank Morales at:

http://www.ww4report.com/negropontedeathsquad

excerpts:

Major General Muhammad Abdallah al-Shahwani, director of Iraq's National Intelligence Service, was quoted in a Jan. 8, 2005 Newsweek story on the "Salvador Option," warning that the U.S. occupation has failed to crack the problem of broad support for the insurgency. The insurgents, he said, "are mostly in the Sunni areas where the population there, almost 200,000, is sympathetic to them." He said most Iraqis do not actively support the insurgents or provide them with material or logistical help, but at the same time they won't turn them in. One military source suggested that "new offensive operations" are needed that would create a fear of aiding the insurgency. "The Sunni population is paying no price for the support it is giving to the terrorists," he said. "From their point of view, it is cost-free. We have to change that equation."

Threatening everyone in a village with torture and death, if the village is deemed a potential base insurgent operations can be a very effective technique, whether the perpetrators are the Nazi SS in occupied Czechoslovakia, the death squads in El Salvador, or whatever new force is invented in Iraq. This strategy of tactical terror aims to sever an insurgency from it's potential base of support.

(snip)

During Negroponte's Honduran ambassadorship, he worked closely with Duane R. Clarridge, aka "Mr. Marone", a high-ranking CIA officer based in Honduras, who was, according to a recent New York Times report (March 29, 2005), "running the covert war against communism in Central America." According to Clarridge, "Negroponte was a big supporter of the agency's covert action mission" there.

At the time, the CIA utilized it's "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual" to teach young Honduran soldiers and others the methodology of torture. Dated 1983, the manual, one in a series of recently "declassified" documents, addresses, among other subjects, "coercive interrogation" techniques utilized in "the torture situation," which is, according to the manual, "a contest between the subject and his tormentor."

[Zuni]

1. Bolton's toupee is garnish

[Vadem]

2. You and I agree, Jack! So, how the hell did he get into the top....

tier???? I'm still in shock!!! Maybe, one day, it will all come to the fore!

[marmar]

3. "Death Squad" Negroponte is ....

truly twisted and evil. Bush has an uncanny talent for finding the absolute scariest people to fill his important posts. The incongruous element - Colin Powell - is no longer there. It's a total freakshow now.

[DemoTex]

4. Waiting with baited breath for Colin's book.

But wait! He can't write a book! It would require mention of My Lai-4. Powell can't talk about THAT! THAT might put his sorry ass in prison. He is a lying, covering-up, motherfucker. Toast in hell, Colin.

[JackRiddler]

5. Well, that's my point

Colin's as bad as the worst of them, and yet the Mr. Clean image sprinkled perfume on the horseshit. A guy like Bolton SHOULD be representing the Bush regime!

Well, it's even better when he goes down, of course, since it makes them look bad.

But I have to agree with George Monbiot when he points out that Wolfowitz at the World Bank means that particularly criminal institution no longer has its fig leaf:

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050409191220518

I'm with Wolfowitz

By George Monbiot
The Guardian UK
April 5, 2005

Liberal handwringing over the World Bank simply reflects a failure to recognise the role it exists to fulfil.
Big Picture Alert! Profoundly insightful piece on the role and redemption a former 9/11 insider may find proving two wrongs can make a right. - Ed.

It's about as close to consensus as the left is ever likely to come. Everyone this side of Atilla the Hun and the Wall Street Journal agrees that Paul Wolfowitz's appointment as president of the World Bank is a catastrophe. Except me.

Under Wolfowitz, my fellow progressives lament, the World Bank will work for America. If only someone else were chosen, it would work for the world's poor. Joseph Stiglitz, the bank's renegade former chief economist, champions Ernesto Zedillo, a former president of Mexico. A Guardian leading article suggested Colin Powell or, had he been allowed to stand, Bono. But what all this hand-wringing reveals is a profound misconception about the role and purpose of the body Wolfowitz will run.

The World Bank and the IMF were conceived by the US economist Harry Dexter White. Appointed by the US Treasury to lead the negotiations on postwar economic reconstruction, White spent most of 1943 banging the heads of the other allied nations together. They were appalled by his proposals. He insisted that his institutions would place the burden of stabilising the world economy on the countries suffering from debt and trade deficits rather than on the creditors. He insisted that "the more money you put in, the more votes you have". He decided, before the meeting at Bretton Woods in 1944, that "the US should have enough votes to block any decision".

Both the undemocratic voting arrangement and the US veto remain to this day. The result is that a body that works mostly in poor countries is controlled by rich ones. White demanded that national debts be redeemable for gold, that gold be convertible into dollars, and that exchange rates be fixed against the dollar. The result was to lay the ground for what was to become the dollar's global hegemony. White also decided that the IMF and the bank would be sited in Washington.

CONTINUED HERE
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050409191220518

[Zorra]

6. Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 991 for john the butcher negroponte.

I agree completely Jack.

What I am really worried about is: Negroponte is not really trained or qualified to be Head of US Intelligence.

So why did Bush choose "John The Butcher" for this post? Is it because he has already proven himself to be ruthless? Does Bush plan to use our Intelligence Agencies as an instrument of repression, or even terror, on the American people or on other innocent people in other countries?

Again, what earthly reason could Bush have for picking Negroponte?

[paineinthearse]

7. You are absolutely right

The two hearings occured at the same time. DU was hyper-focused on Bolton. Was very difficult to get much focus on Negroponte.

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