by mxmendo » Tue Nov 08, 2005 2:44 pm
Another nasty bushite, creepy former ambassador to italia...<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://alternet.org/story/27725/">alternet.org/story/27725/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"Among our president's appointments of GOP activists to important posts, we've done worse than Melvin Sembler, the Ambassador to Italy who couldn't speak Italian. Unlike the FEMA chief, who had real responsibilities, Sembler sometimes found himself a fifth wheel around his own embassy. As the Washington Monthly has reported, the scandal that claimed Scooter Libby's job last month may have sprung from secret Rome meetings between neocons, an Iran-Contra figure and an Italian intelligence boss who later pushed phony WMD documents -- all behind Sembler's back.<br><br>But where Melvin Sembler, 74, demands attention is as an object lesson in how cruelty can be redeemed by the transformative power of political donations."<br><br>No mention of any evidence that he was outside of the loop, why do they make this assumption?<br> <p></p><i></i>
