https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/03/politics/elliott-abrams-public-diplomacy-nomination/index.html
most recently acted as the Trump administration’s special envoy to Iran and Venezuela where he was tasked at the time with directing the campaign to replace Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro
funny how they can admit this after a few years and a republican administration did it, but fail to mention how fully they supported this at the time
Cornell West? I've always liked him in the past but no idea what his platform is or if he's hiring the same dipshit consultants the dems have
He'd at least make good a politics topic for making bluemaga heads explode
yeah why are those racists voting for an old white man instead of a black professor?
Common Dream 2019 Cold Warrior Elliott Abrams Returns to Battle in Venezuela
neo-con extraordinaire Elliott Abrams, praised by Pompeo as a "seasoned, principled, and tough-minded foreign policy veteran", whose "passion for the rights and liberties of all peoples makes him a perfect fit and a valuable and timely addition" to the State Department team.
"Veteran", at least, is an accurate description. Abrams indeed boasts a long career of shady political exploits in Latin America undertaken on behalf of the American government.
While serving in the administration of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, Abrams was a star of that Cold War period known as the Iran-Contra affair, during which the US illegally sold weapons to Iran and funnelled the proceeds to right-wing Contra forces busily terrorising Nicaragua.
Abrams was even convicted for his role in the affair, but was later pardoned by George HW Bush.
In her war memoir Blood on the Border, US scholar Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz recalls Abrams's lofty prediction that "when history is written the Contras will be folk heroes".
Speaking of voting blue no matter who
https://cpusa.org/article/cp-says-all-out-for-strike-struggles-and-coalition-to-defeat-maga-right/
