Posted on 10/02/2009 2:54:31 PM PDT by don-o
U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam was in Honduras Friday to meet with the torn nation's interim president as part of a Republican fact-finding mission that flew in the face of current U.S. foreign policy.
Roskam, as part of a contingent headed by South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, met with interim President Roberto Micheletti. But President Barack Obama's administration is seeking to isolate Micheletti and other architects of the military coup that ousted the nation's president for allegedly trying to defy term limits.
The U.S. and European Union, among many nations around the world, have condemned the ouster of Honduras President Manuel Zelaya and suspended aid to the Central American country. Zelaya is now holed up at a Brazilian Embassy in Honduras and the Obama administration wants to see him reinstalled to finish off the remaining months in his term.
Some Republicans have blasted Obama's stance, saying that support for Zelaya could lead to an expansion of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's socialist programs in Latin America.
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Hey, Illinoisans, does Roskam have what it takes to move up in politics?
Good, I hope these guys come back and talk up a storm. Glad to see DeMint went over the objections of the Gigolo.
This is the ONLY way for the Republicans to find out the truth since they’re not getting it from our Media and definitely not from the White House.
I hope Jim DeMint will get vocal about this when he gets back.
FOX will probably interview him. They’ve had him on before.
The SRM continues with its ill-informed propaganda.
“military coup that ousted the nation’s president for allegedly trying to defy term limits.”
Guess that’s why there is a joint resolution waiting on the House side. Once the time is right for the resident to move, the Senate can whip one out, both be voted on and, the great one won’t be bothered. Wonder why he didn’t pass that idea on to his friend?
US Senator’s spokesman: Honduran leader says civil liberties restored no later than Monday.
AP via Breitbart ^ | October 2, 2009 | N/A
Posted on October 2, 2009 7:50:33 PM EDT by Jet Jaguar
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353820/posts
Zelaya was comfortably ensconced here and had ample time to present his case to Congress, and once he was smuggled back into Honduras, in fact continued to broadcast on the radio from the Brazilian embassy, urging Hondurans to turn out in the streets, until they pulled the plug on his station because he was attempting to incite violence. Well, that and his ravings about the Jews blowing poison gas under the door of the embassy...
Zelaya and his “supporters” (by whom I assume you mean Hugo Chavez, the Nicaraguan Marxist president, and the guys wearing the Che Guevara shirts who are throwing rocks at the Honduran army) have talked up a storm and have been the only people listened to by our government. The US has actually ejected Honduran diplomats, including Micheletti’s daughter, rather than listen to them.
So remind me who needs a hearing again?
Great sense of fairness you have there. 90% of all reports published about Honduras are heavily distorted in defense of Zelaya and you suggest that his side hasn’t been heard. ROTFLOL You and Mel are a joke.
All I have seen from you in your misplaced defense of Zelaya is a couple of alleged procedural foot faults by the Honduran government.
Who stepped over the line first?
Answer: Your commie cowboy did. He is the one and only cause of this problem and the Hondurans are handling it as well as they can be expected to. Don’t forget the bottom line for them is the denial of any executive to assume unbalanced power,
Strain those gnats and swallow that camel
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