Biden Nominates Elliott Abrams, Death Squad Backer Convicted of Lying to Congress, to Gov’t Commission
July 8th, 2023Via: Democracy Now:
President Biden has nominated Elliott Abrams to the bipartisan U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Elliott Abrams was convicted in 1991 of lying to Congress about the Iran-Contra affair, and later pardoned by then-President George H.W. Bush. He defended death squads in Guatemala and El Salvador in the 1980s, when he served as assistant secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan. Abrams dismissed reports that El Salvador’s U.S.-trained military had massacred 1,000 civilians, including children, in the Salvadoran town of El Mozote in December 1981. He has also been linked to the 2002 attempted coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and helped plan the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Under President Trump, Abrams served as special envoy to Iran and Venezuela. Abrams will need to be confirmed by the Senate to serve on the commission.
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Top of the (alphabetical by last name) list of signatories, no less! https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#Original_25_signatories_were:
Such a huge difference between the “2 parties”… LOL!
Anothernut–man, nice concise yet comprehensive resource index for what PNAC and the Neocons were doing have been up to.
“When the Towers came down, these men saw, at long last, their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive policy.”
“Essentially, their goal is to transform America, the sole remaining superpower, into a planetary empire by force of arms.”
Their 7 wars in 5 year plan (Westley Clark):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Knt3rKTqCk
got bogged down with Iran, as resistance built within the military (one example in 2006 is CENTCOM Commander Admiral Fallon allegedly said in private, an attack on Iran–not on my watch). Some operspective from 2008:
https://www.voltairenet.org/article155950.html
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4284/fox-fallon/
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2008/03/farewell-admiral-fallon-now-its-time-to.html
Not on the list of 7 countries slated for destruction, yet at the top of the Neocon’s list from the beginning–the complete destruction of Russia, it’s culture and the looting of its resources.
Russia has understood this since at least 2007—in the initial few years after Putin took office in 1999 they were doing things such as exploring the idea of joining NATO—but by the 2007 Munich speech given by Putin, they had come to a different perspective:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ58Yv6kP44
Is there sufficient resistance left in the US military 15 years after the resignation of Admiral Fallon to restrain the lunatics?