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Home Front: Politix
Dems query U.S. role in Aristide exile - Hint at Conspiracy
2004-03-04
Sickening
Congressional Democrats criticized the Bush administration’s handling of the crisis in Haiti yesterday and questioned whether the United States pushed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide into exile.
We should’ve allowed the bloodbath to occur... of course, W would be blamed even worse for that
"You didn’t want a diplomatic solution to this problem. You wanted to get rid of Aristide," said Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Far Rockaway).
Apparently we weren't the only ones.
news for Meeks: nobody gave a F&*K what happened in Haiti or to Aristide, as long as the boats stayed home
Others said the Bush administration’s failure to support Aristide sent a chilling signal to democratically elected governments.
we should support corruption - and look - Fidel was democratically elected too, Saddam as well, right?
Rep. Robert Menendez, a sleazy New Jersey Pimp Democrat, said people in this hemisphere were "watching this government turn its back on democracy .... The message is clear. This government will not stand up for a democratically elected head of state they do not like."
That isn't so! I lifted a finger to help. Wanna see which one?
Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega was the target of the grilling yesterday at a hearing of House International Relations subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. Members of Congress wanted to know whether the United States was covertly involved in recent events that led Aristide to leave his country. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said she and other legislators hope to find how much money was spent recently by the CIA and other U.S. agencies operating in Haiti.
Conspiracy thinkers unite!
She and Rep. Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) also demanded that Noriega produce proof Aristide himself composed the document which U.S. officials say is a letter of resignation. "Was the letter of resignation composed by - not just signed by - but composed by President Aristide?" Schakowsky asked Noriega.
even video of him hiding in his closet and writing it could be faked
"I assume he wrote it, dumbass" Noriega answered. On Monday, Aristide made phone calls to some members of Congress, saying he had been taken out of Haiti the day before against his will and forced by U.S. diplomats and Marines to sign the document. He has ended up, at least temporarily, in the Central African Republic.
Send his scheming, stealing, lying ass back to Haiti, watch how the people love him
Schakowsky said she had reason to doubt the official U.S. version of events in Haiti Saturday night. Schakowsky told Newsday in a telephone interview yesterday evening that she had spoken with Mildred Aristide, the president’s wife, at 6 p.m. Saturday, "and there was absolutely no hint that they were going to leave." "she never mentioned it, but asked me to open a checking account for her, as well as safe deposit box.... a big one"
"We are absolutely going to push for a full investigation," Schakowsky told Newsday.
and make crazy accusations and stomp our feet...nobody’s paying attention to us!
Posted by:Frank G

#10  eLarson--take your head outta your ass--It's the Republican Party that has been hi-jacked by the loonie "Christians" and right wing nutz. The polite Country Club Republicans in Connecticut have been replaced by Tom DeLay and his fire breathing Texas posse
Posted by: NotMike Moore   2004-3-5 12:04:26 AM  

#9  Once again the Democrats prove themselves to be on the wrong side of a democracy-vs.-thugocracy debate.

Please make sure that your Democrat friends realize that it is no longer the party of Scoop Jackson or Truman or Kennedy. It is fully the party of the far left now.
Posted by: eLarson   2004-3-4 5:05:54 PM  

#8  I'm not sure which is more important to my mornings, coffee or Chuck Asay! Every day, day after day, a priceless gem.

I think it's only proper that these congresscritters do their research on-site - and not in one of the major hotels in Port-au-Prince. They should be forced to do all their work in Cap Hatien, Mirebalais, and Saint Marc. Talk to the local people about how much they "love" Aristide and Baby Doc. Ask them about how much these tin rectums have done for them. Ask about how they hate the US "unilaterally" removing Aristide.

They may get some answers they don't like, but I think it's absolutely essential they do these things before we listen to a word they say.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2004-3-4 3:09:25 PM  

#7  you can find in the land of wanna be glory and ex-tryants --of course frogland
Posted by: Dan   2004-3-4 3:00:52 PM  

#6  I wouldn't put it past the French to have put the conspircy ideas into Aristdes head and provided the rolodex numbers of idiot congressmen. The French would love to see Bush lose the election in Nov, and Aristide can do the libral lecture/book circuit into retirement in the South of France.

Where is Baby Doc living these days?
Posted by: ruprecht   2004-3-4 2:27:40 PM  

#5  Screw it. Fly his skinny ass back. But make sure all the locals know the arrival time at Shithole International Airport so they can welcome the beloved leader back. If he won't get off the plane, boot his ass off.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-3-4 2:09:56 PM  

#4  good one GK
Posted by: Frank G   2004-3-4 1:50:00 PM  

#3  Here's political cartoonist Chuck Asay's (3/4/04)take on the Democrat's hypocrisy.
Posted by: GK   2004-3-4 1:47:28 PM  

#2  the dems just to want to make bush look bad.

if we did nothing - then we are ignoring the will of the people and supporting a tryant.

once we do something then we are meddling in the affairs of a soverign nation, making undemocratic changes. now where were this dems when clinton installed aristide? oh i forgot prez sleeze was also a dem.
Posted by: Dan   2004-3-4 1:28:20 PM  

#1  Um, Dems? Wasn't there this matter Aristide's fraud, ballot stuffing and other shenanigans in the 2000 election?

Democratically elected, my ass.
Posted by: Raj   2004-3-4 1:13:19 PM  

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