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Haiti, descending into chaos again
various FR links | 02-11-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 02/11/2004 2:38:53 AM PST by backhoe

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075566/posts
Haitian Uprising Brings Together People Who Once Were Enemies
AP ^ | Feb. 10. 2004
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075570/posts
U.S. Watches for Possible Increase in Boat People From Troubled Haiti
AP ^ | Feb. 10, 2004
 
 
U.S. opts not to intervene in Haiti
Washington Times ^ | 2/11/04 | Sharon Behn
Does anyone remember the time that Clintoon ordered an attack on Haiti.. but there was a band of machete wielding thugs at the harbor, so Clinton ordered the ships to retreat?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Crowds loot Haitian port city
USA Today | 02/09/04 | Rodrigo Abd
 
 
 
If you get a chance, be sure to read the book "All the Trouble in The World" by P.J. O'Rourke. It has a whole chapter on Haiti, including a great summary of their political history.
 
 
Anarchy takes hold in Haiti
Guardian ^ | 02/09/04 | Michael Norton
 
 
 
 
 
 
This was one of Clinton's "wins" wasn't it ?
 
 
 
 
Ah! That Clinton "legacy" just keeps on giving--
 
 


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Another artifact left over from The Decade of Fraud(s), Haiti's worsening situation is under-reported and little commented upon.
1 posted on 02/11/2004 2:38:56 AM PST by backhoe
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To: backhoe
That scumbag traitor Clinton left pile of crap behind, didn't he... recession, 9/11.. now even this.
2 posted on 02/11/2004 2:44:35 AM PST by ambrose ("John Kerry has blood of American soldiers on his hands" - Lt. Col. Oliver North)
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To: ambrose
I don't care how bad it gets, I hope that we don't intervene. If we are not threatened by internal strife, it's for them to find a solution. Or not and suffer the consequences.
3 posted on 02/11/2004 2:49:06 AM PST by Iwo Jima
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To: backhoe
Be interesting to hear comments from the Clintons, Carter, or the Congressional Black Circus who all pushed for installing Aristide back in '94.
4 posted on 02/11/2004 2:53:24 AM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: ambrose
That scumbag traitor Clinton left (a) pile...

Yes, he did...

That "legacy" will keep on giving for years and years to come, and our kids will be left to shovel up his messes.

It took me about a year to wise up to the fact that Clinton wasn't just another Jimmy Carter- a failed Governor who lucked into the White House- but was, indeed, something far more sinister.

And I spent about 7 futile years trying to warn people what the price of enabling and tolerating such corruption would be... but they didn't want to hear it, the economy was good, we weren't at war, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

5 posted on 02/11/2004 2:56:35 AM PST by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)... the 00's? The Decade of Lunatics...)
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To: backhoe
Good job of putting this thread together. Since Randall Robinson was a prime mover behind clinton's 94 venture into Haiti, here's one more: Randall Robinson: Smooth Talking Racist

In discussing the modern world, Robinson claims, “only white countries are capable of killing so many (people) at one time,” but fails to mention the horrible 1994 Hutu massacre of close to one million Tutsi in Rwanda. He also praises Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide as “a passionate democrat” and “one of the finest human beings I have ever known” but says not one word about his corruption and widespread human rights violations. And these are but a few representative examples of his tainted historiography. Robinson is no friend of truth.

6 posted on 02/11/2004 2:57:29 AM PST by leadpenny (- Vietnam Vet Not Fonda Kerry -)
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To: Chi-townChief
Be interesting to hear comments from the Clintons, Carter, or the Congressional Black Circus who all pushed for installing Aristide back in '94.

( ~crickets chirping...~ )

7 posted on 02/11/2004 2:57:48 AM PST by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)... the 00's? The Decade of Lunatics...)
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To: backhoe
Descending into chaos?
Hell, chaos would be an improvement over the conditions in Haiti...

Another Clinton/Carter/Black Caucus "success story"...

Semper Fi
8 posted on 02/11/2004 3:01:51 AM PST by river rat (Militant Islam is a cult, flirting with extinction)
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To: Iwo Jima
This must be the southern strategy for the dims to win. Stir up their base. I expect to see wall to wall coverage of rafts on the high seas heading to Flordia.
9 posted on 02/11/2004 3:09:32 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: backhoe
And I spent about 7 futile years trying to warn people what the price of enabling and tolerating such corruption would be... but they didn't want to hear it, the economy was good, we weren't at war, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

It's all about sex.

Can't we just move on?

10 posted on 02/11/2004 3:11:43 AM PST by Jim Noble (Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!)
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To: river rat
Hell, chaos would be an improvement over the conditions in Haiti...

Excellent point. I read a book about Haiti back in grade school- late 1950's- and it was a pesthole then, poverty, corruption, susperstision. We even had an expeditionary force there in the last century... 1920's?

Nothing seems to help or change things much.

11 posted on 02/11/2004 3:13:21 AM PST by backhoe (--30--)
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To: Jim Noble
Jim, you have a memorable tagline...

(Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!)

12 posted on 02/11/2004 3:14:28 AM PST by backhoe (--30--)
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To: backhoe
If I recall correctly, didn't Gore cite Haiti as an example of Clinton's foreign policy. If Haiti is a measure of Clinton's acumen in foreign affairs, what damage would he do if he is appointed as special ambassador to the Mideast as some Democratic hopefuls have proposed?
13 posted on 02/11/2004 3:16:51 AM PST by monocle
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To: river rat
Descending into chaos?

Hell, chaos would be an improvement over the conditions in Haiti...Another Clinton/Carter/Black Caucus "success story"...

Do you remember that Clinton's "rescue" was originally called "Operation Retore Democracy"? After many asked how could we restore democracy to a place that never seen it the intervention was renamed "Operation Uphold Democracy."

14 posted on 02/11/2004 3:20:22 AM PST by Siamese Princess
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To: monocle
If I recall correctly, didn't Gore cite Haiti as an example of Clinton's foreign policy.

Although I don't have a quote or link handy, that does ring a bell.

Of course, Clinton/Gore were swift to claim credit for just about anything good from the 1990's, and fast to run away from anything negative.

15 posted on 02/11/2004 3:21:24 AM PST by backhoe (--30--)
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Ah!

but to you know WHERE his tagline is from?

*I* do!

16 posted on 02/11/2004 3:50:07 AM PST by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
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To: backhoe
This must be a figment of someone's imagination.

"When ticking off his foreign policy accomplishments, President Clinton always has listed "restored democracy to Haiti," at or near the top.... He invaded that tiny country on Sept. 19, 1994, to force defrocked priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide back on his people."

You see? Clintoon fixed Haiti.




Well, you take this here voodoo doll, and you stick these here hat pins in it, and then .......

17 posted on 02/11/2004 3:52:22 AM PST by G.Mason (I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials…G.Mason)
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To: tiamat; backhoe
Some people without any brains do an awful lot of talking....

(Present company excepted)

18 posted on 02/11/2004 3:52:47 AM PST by Jim Noble (Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!)
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To: tiamat
but to you know WHERE his tagline is from?

OK, I'll bite- ???

19 posted on 02/11/2004 3:52:55 AM PST by backhoe (Just a Stone-Age guy trapped in Loony World...)
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To: backhoe
Auntie Em says it to the three farm hands in "The Wizard of Oz"!
20 posted on 02/11/2004 4:04:11 AM PST by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
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