Black times ahead
We are all doomed. Bush appoints as intelligence chief John Negroponte, the guy responsible for death squads in Honduras, the guy that comes associated with the Salvador option as a means to deal with opposition.
This indiscriminate killing led to thousands of deaths, and resentment against Americans. A good description can be found at David Kirsch's essay Death Squads in El Salvador: A Pattern of U.S. Complicity,
It is widely accepted, in the mainstream media and among human rights organizations, that the Salvadoran government is responsible for most of the 70,000 deaths which are the result of ten years of civil war. The debate, however, has dwelled on whether the death squads are strictly renegade military factions or a part of the larger apparatus. The evidence indicates that the death squads are simply components of the Salvadoran military. And that their activities are not only common knowledge to U.S. agencies, but that U.S. personnel have been integral in organizing these units and continue to support their dally functioning.
.And now this guy, Negroponte, the guy that abides and cooperates in torturing and killing civilians, the one that is going to oversee the intelligence agencies in the USA?
Senator Christopher Dodd stated his doubts about Negroponte's nomination for UN ambassador:
Based upon the Committee's review of State Department and CIA documents, it would seem that Ambassador Negroponte knew far more about government perpetuated human rights abuses than he chose to share with the committee in 1989 or in Embassy contributions at the time to annual State Department Human Rights reports.
Tell me, middle America, when the stormtroopers throw down your door, are you finally going to regret electing Bush? Or is it going to be later, when they are raping your children?
The quagmire is already happening here.