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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-23-04 03:48 PM
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The Reason for Haiti?
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Edited on Mon Feb-23-04 04:02 PM by mac2

Link: http://www.blackcommentator.com/78/78_haiti.html

By the Black Commentator..snip..

"The Bush administration is preparing to declare Haiti a “failed state,” so that Washington can step in to put the pieces back together as it chooses. Creating the conditions for such a declaration has been the U.S. objective since George Bush came to power. For three years Washington and the European Union have imposed an aid embargo on Haiti, squeezing the hemisphere’s poorest nation until it screamed – and then squeezing harder.

Despite ever deepening misery, Haiti’s poor majority stuck with their popularly elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide."

Seems Mr. Aristide didn't go along with the World Bank...ah..err..World Union. They over throw an elected leader with just a few troops by refusing loans, etc. It is apparent that, we are the "military wing" of the World Bank.

This is what is wrong with giving any President Fast Tract authority. He can forced governments out of power that don't go along with the "willing". "We the people" have no say as to his foreign policy.
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  -The Reason for Haiti? mac2  Feb-23-04 03:48 PM   #0 
  - Um, you failed to post the link  CocaCola58204   Feb-23-04 03:50 PM   #1 
  - It's there now.  mac2   Feb-23-04 03:56 PM   #2 
  - Now, it's gone!!  mac2   Feb-23-04 04:01 PM   #3 
  - Why can't the black commentator just blame Aristide?  anti-NAFTA   Feb-23-04 04:19 PM   #4 
  - Aristide was US backed?  Snow   Feb-23-04 04:27 PM   #6 
     - Clinton backed Aristide...  HawkerHurricane   Feb-23-04 04:43 PM   #7 
        - Clinton tried to blackmail Artstide, to become  Dirk39   Feb-23-04 06:06 PM   #8 
           - Give me a break.  anti-NAFTA   Feb-23-04 06:29 PM   #9 
              - No!  Dirk39   Feb-23-04 07:07 PM   #10 
  - Bush wants to change the Gov in Haiti  HawkerHurricane   Feb-23-04 04:27 PM   #5 
 

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