Welcome Mr. Ambassador

Bush continues to surround himself with fine upstanding individuals, selecting John Negroponte as the US ambassador to Iraq.

"John Negroponte is a man of enormous experience and skill" and "has done a really good job of speaking for the United States to the world about our intentions to spread freedom and peace," said Bush.

A quick look at Negroponte's resume shows that he is indeed a man of enormous experience and skill - I mean, it's not everyday that a Nun leads a worldwide petition against your appointment to the UN. Besides that prestigious achievement, Negroponte also showed his talents as the former ambassador to Honduras by supporting Contra death squads in the killing of hundreds of civilians, laundering money from a corrupt government, increasing 20-fold the US military aid to Honduras, ignoring the full spectrum of human rights violations (including dropping nuns out of helicopters to their deaths), and perhaps most skillfully of all - deporting and "silencing" those who had damaging evidence against him since being appointed to the UN in 2001.

Now he's going to Iraq. One thing that's certain - as a representative of the Bush administration and the current US policies, he'll fit right in.