this is amazing Elliott Abrams
I remember Elliot Abrams I well I you
know I was wide awake during the Reagan
Administration in the 1980s I mean I was
basically wide awake or you know from
like 1966 forward because uh because of
the Vietnam War 67 let's say
um and uh Elliot Abrams was working for
Ronald Reagan
and Reagan was taking the money
illegally by the way Congress passed a
law saying that the Reagan
Administration may not supply weapons or
money
to the contras now that was specifically
a Nicaragua but but more broadly that
they we were not to be supporting
right-wing Guerrilla movements in south
or Central America
and when Reagan was selling spare parts
Military spare parts to Iran
illegally that he did this in gratitude
for their holding the American hostages
until the moment that he was sworn in on
January 20th 1981 as he put his hand on
the Bible they released the hostages
that was the Iran part of the Iran
Contra deal so then for the next six
years he was selling weapons to the to
the Ayatollah Ronald Reagan and his
entire Administration
until he finally got busted for it
and then he was taking the money from
selling those illegally selling those
weapons and using it to buy weapons here
in the United States and ship them down
or ship money in some cases down to
Central America into Nicaragua Honduras
Guatemala and Guatemala and El Salvador
and totally screwing up those countries
and there were there was this death
squad in El Salvador that we trained
at Fort Benning that we trained at the
school of the Americas
and they in 1982 there was it was called
the El mozote Massacre more than 800
civilians this was in in El Salvador it
was by the uh
Lich
Battalion forgive me I'm sure I'm
mispronouncing it these were these
government soldiers who had been trained
by us
and uh New York Times Reporter Raymond
Bonner wrote about seeing quote the
charred skulls and bones of dozens of
bodies buried under burned out roofs
beams and shattered tiles he listed 733
names mostly women and children and old
people that were murdered by this Death
Squad
we later learned that it was 811.
his reporting Bonner's reporting on this
in the New York Times LED Elliot Abrams
and others in the Reagan Administration
to conduct a smear campaign against
Bonner the reporter and the New York
Times
that was so successful
that the New York Times pulled him off
the South American beat or the Central
American beat
and uh he this is what a Bonner wrote in
2019 five four years ago in the Atlantic
he wrote quote the Reagan Administration
with Elliott Abrams as Point man
routinely defended the Salvadoran
government in the face of evidence that
its regular army and Allied right-wing
death squads were operating with an
impunity killing peasants students union
leaders and anyone considered
anti-government or pro-gorrilla Abrams
went so far as to defend one of the
death squad's most notorious leader
Roberto De albesson who was responsible
for the murder of Archbishop Oscar
Romero when he was saying mass in March
of 1980. I remember that that was the
assassination that touched off the Civil
War in El Salvador
well that guy Elliot Abrams who was the
apologist for the death squad and
participated in helping fund them or it
appears he participated
is the guy that Mitch McConnell wants to
be on a bipartisan Commission
and and and President Biden has cycled
the name through because Mitch McConnell
put it up it's wrong you're listening to
the Thom Hartmann program call
202-808-9925 this is the bipartisan
advisory Commission on public diplomacy
Elliott Abrams really
call your senators and tell them to say
no this this will die in the Sun