Posted on 02/17/2005 6:37:07 AM PST by mrobison
This is a new name to me. Does anybody know anything about him?
Where have you been? He's the ambassador to Iraq.
But that doesn't make any sense...
He was the Ambas. for the UN and is now the Ambas. for Iraq.
Makes no sense to me. He was recently named US Ambassador to Iraq.
I know. It's a weird choice.
Heard it on MSNBC. Fox appeared clueless (as in they were talking about something else).
I was hoping for Woolsey.
He was Ambassador to the UN in the run-up to the war. Very competent. Gravitas.
I guess...maybe...they think they can control him pretty well...
That or he'll come out for tax increases...
Noboby wants that job. Giant headache, little power and will take the blame if {when} al-kaka strikes the USA again.
Negroponte is a career State Department officer. John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939) (pronounced neg-row-pontee) is the current United States ambassador to Iraq. A career diplomat who served in the US Foreign Service from 1960 to 1997, Negroponte served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from September of 2001 until June 2004. As ambassador to Iraq, Negroponte oversees the largest American diplomatic facility in the world.
He is a controversial figure because of his involvement in covert funding of the Contras and his covering up of human rights abuses carried out by CIA-trained operatives in Honduras in the 1980s.
I like it. Tells me Bush wants someone who will get through the gauntlet of opposition fairly quickly and unscathed. Also tells me Porter Goss is the man - the NID being more of a coordinator.
Biography of
JOHN D. NEGROPONTE
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
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John D. Negroponte was sworn in as United States Representative to the United Nations on September 18, 2001. Since 1997 Mr. Negroponte had been Executive Vice President for Global Markets of The McGraw-Hill Companies. On April 19, 2004, President Bush nominated Ambassador Negroponte to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. And on May 6, 2004, the Senate confirmed his nomination. From 1960 to 1997, Ambassador Negroponte was a member of the Career Foreign Service. He served at eight different Foreign Service posts in Asia, |
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Europe and Latin America; and he also held important positions at the State Department and the White House. Among his more recent assignments, Mr. Negroponte was Ambassador to Honduras (1981-85); Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (1985-87); Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1987-89); Ambassador to Mexico (1989-93); and Ambassador to the Philippines (1993-96). Ambassador Negroponte is a graduate of Yale University. He and his wife, Diana, have five children.
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On what do you base your comments?
Highlights of John D. Negroponte's resume
Personal: 64 years old, married, five children Education: Graduate of Yale University Languages: Greek, Spanish, French, Vietnamese
Work experience
1960: Joined U.S. foreign service 1981-1985: U.S. Ambassador to Honduras
1985-1987: Assistant Secretary of State 1987-1989: Deputy to
National Security Adviser Colin Powell in the Reagan White House
1989-1993: U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
1993-1996: U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines 1997-2001: Executive Vice President for Global Markets, McGraw-Hill Cos.
2001-present: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
. Source: Department of State
WSJ research
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