'Get Abrams'

When German and Japanese war criminals were corralled after WWII, we executed some and imprisoned many. But in the US we keep recycling them to continue the dirty business of regime change in countries we lust to control. Elliot Abrams is exhibit A in this nefarious exercise of raw, murderous power. Abrams spent the 1980's as Assistant Secretary of State supporting grotesque right wing Latin American dictatorships, even encouraging their death squads responsible for tens of thousands of deaths to thwart left wing rule in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Convicted of lying to Congress, Abrams was pardoned by George H.W. Bush on the recommendation of his Attorney General William Barr. Yes, the same William Barr now serving as Trump's Attorney General. Abrams has many friends in the foreign policy establishment who have worked assiduously to rehabilitate his blood soaked image. 

Americans got a peek at the underbelly of Abrams' role with dictators, death squads and thousands of innocent bodies when grilled by MN Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at a House hearing on Venezuela. Abrams, likely the most experienced American official on regime change, was appointed Special Representative for Venezuela which brought about the heated exchange with Rep. Omar on his 1980's dirty work. How important is former war criminal Abrams in Trump's effort to depose Venezuelan socialist leader Nicolas Maduro? Back in 2002 Abrams, working as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, had advance knowledge of and offered moral support for the short lived coup against then Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Chavez. Trump vetoed an earlier appointment of Abrams as Assistant Secretary of Stare two years ago due to Abrams' campaign criticism of Trump. What changed? When seeking an experienced thug to grease the demise of Maduro and the ascension of US hand puppet Juan Guido, the uniform cry in the Oval Office was: 'Get Abrams'.