I just had a moment that I've been waiting for since the early 1980s, because I am an old guy who remembers things. Of all the bloodthirsty think-tank Rambos that were wandering around the Reagan Administration, none of them were so bone-deep inhumanely repulsive as Elliot Abrams, whose main job was to enable death squads and cover up massacres committed by our plucky cutthroats-for-hire in Central America, most notably in Guatemala. His portfolio also included lying to Congress and Trolling Around For A Pardon. (Thanks, Poppy!)

Unremarkably, once Daddy Bush let him off the hook, Abrams found work in the second Bush Administration, because there is no limit to the number of peasants on your butcher's bill that would keep you from government work. Now, also unremarkably, because of the above, Abrams has been designated to be the official representative in Venezuela for whatever it is Camp Runamuck wants to screw up down there.

Abrams testifies at the Iran-Contra hearings, 1987. Terry Ashe Getty Images

My advice to Venezuelans? Dig shelters immediately.

Anyway, Abrams came before the House Foreign Relations Committee. It came time for Rep. Ilhan Omar to ask him questions. Congresswoman Omar, you may have noted, has had a rough couple of weeks. Nevertheless, she soldiered on and asked Abrams if they could discuss his resume for a bit. Abrams didn't seem to enjoy having his bona fides as a war criminal discussed by this...person.

(Apologies for the Free Bacon link)

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“I’m not going to respond to that question, I’m sorry. I don’t think this entire line of questioning is meant to be real questions.”

I think I speak for thousands of dead people in Central America when I thank Rep. Omar for allowing us to say, together, once again, and to the skull-like face of Elliott Abrams, "Man, fck that guy."

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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