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Bush's frightening Middle East appointment
(Gary Kamiya, Salon.com, December 10, 2002)
By naming Iran-contra rogue Elliott Abrams its top policy advisor on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the White House is signaling a hard pro-Sharon line that could prove disastrous. . . . What crook, rogue and hard-line reprobate from the Republicans' glory years will President George W. Bush exhume next? It's hard to say -- he seems to have already hired them all. . . . There's Henry Kissinger, Machiavellian master of secrecy and deceit, architect of the horrific air war against Laos and Cambodia . . . There's Admiral John "to the best of my recollection, I can't recall" Poindexter, who ran the illegal and disgraceful Iran-Contra project . . . And now there's Elliott Abrams, another major Iran-contra villain who was convicted of lying to Congress (this résumé seems to be virtually required for Bush appointees lately), but was saved from iron sorrows by Bush the First, who pardoned him on Christmas Eve. . . . Recently, however, Abrams has been promoted to one of the most crucial jobs in the administration: making NSC policy on the Middle East.

posted by Lorenzo 10:58 AM