Maxine Waters: Bush Official a 'Haiti-Hater'

NewsMax ^ | 3/2/04 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., charged Monday that Bush Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega was a "Haiti hater" who had engineered a "coup d'etat" to depose failed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

"Mr. Noriega at the State Department . . . . he is behind the whole plan," Waters told CNN. "He is known as a Haiti hater and he's in charge of this policy."

The flamboyant one-time head of the Congressional Black Caucus complained that Noriega had a long record of "undermining Haiti, of denying them funding."

Waters said the media hadn't been paying enough attention to Noriega, telling CNN, "You guys ought to find out his history and who he is . . . You really need to dig us up some information here."

She said she personally spoke to both Aristide and his wife on Monday, who told her that he had been driven from power by U.S. diplomats backed by a phalanx of Marine guards.

In a later interview with the Associated Press, Aristide described the group as "white American, white military."

Asked whether she had any reason to doubt Aristide's account, Rep. Waters said she trusted him more than she trusted her own government.

"Listen, I tend to doubt the State Department, and I tend to doubt Mr. Noriega and people who have been in charge of advancing this policy," she told CNN.

"I find that I've been lied to over and over again . . . So I have a lot of questions of my own government at this point."

Bush officials have called the allegation that Aristide was kidnapped "absurd."

Last week, Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown complained to Mr. Noriega that the Bush administration had "a bunch of white men" running its Haiti policy. When Noriega reminded her that he was a Mexican-American, she responded, "You all look alike to me."

Brown's subsequent apology did little to mollify Texas Rep Henry Bonilla, a key Bush congressional ally of Mexican descent, who is calling for Rep. Brown to resign.

"It is appalling that someone at this level of government would use racist language and not answer for it," Bonilla told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Saturday. "If a Republican had made such derogatory, insulting and discriminatory remarks, there would be a firestorm of outrage."

[PBRSTREETGANG]

James Brown?

[GigaDittos]

"Asked whether she had any reason to doubt Aristide's account, Rep. Waters said she trusted him more than she trusted her own government."

Stupid bitch, then why don't you run for elected office in THEIR government. I'll even send you a contribution.

[wayoverontheright]

The Left seems to want to perpetuate despots in power, in particular when the citizens want them out. They have an eerie kinship with these tyrants, perhaps related to the haughty, smug, Marxist conclusion that the proletariat cannot possibly know what is good for them.

[LongsforReagan]

Its really embarassing that such an ignorant person is an elected official. She is a national embarassment.

[wattsmag2]

And there is something to "love" about Haiti? Just say no to involvement in that cesspool.

[Bikers4Bush]

Just when you thought Maxine Waters could be any more of a nutjob she goes and blows the bell curve out of the water.

[Walkingfeather]

nope but he has hers, all bosses want to be able to contact their employees at anytime.

[Alberta's Child]

Word on the street is that Maxine Waters' autobiography will be out later this year just in time for the 2004 campaign. It will be titled Only in America: From the O.J. Jury to the House of Representatives.

[leprechaun9]

More B.S.from the Democrap Queen of Hate and Race! I wonder if she is Charles Rangel's mother?

[GigaDittos]

MOAB is the answer to the Haiti question.

[RoseofTexas]

What a total BITCH! She and the rest of the EVIL demonic RATS remind me of the character that played Satan in the Passion movie! EXACTLY THE SAME! MIRROR IMAGE!

[NormsRevenge]

Look who appointed and reappointed Aristide in Haiti in the 90s. It ain't too far from Haiti to Mena, yaknow. Lots of dough and snow to go around. Nope, No corruption there. lol ;-]

[leprechaun9]

And don't leave out Al Charleton!

[gunnedah]

Maxine is where UNCEF got their slogan "A Mind is a Terrible thing to waste" from.

[hellinahandcart]

"He is known as a Haiti hater and he's in charge of this policy."

Just be glad she didn't call him a "hatey-hate-hater".

Assonances can be fun...

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

And one wonders;

• Why he's in exile?
• Why Maxine is in CA?
• Why she won't support gay marriage?

[cyborg]

Maxine Waters is the embodiment of the ghetto fabulous nasty ignorant attitude mentality. She really is an embarassment.

[hchutch]

Aristide isn't going to get back his power - he is gone for good this time. All he can do is to try to make life difficult for Bush. And that is eaily done with the state of the present media.

If anything, this could be a lot worse. Aristide could be dead, and then we have a martyr.

[Warrior Nurse]

Kerosene Waters should know because some of her congressional district looks like Haiti perhaps that explains her affinity for Haiti.

[wattsmag2]

You are right, a few 21,000 pounders and the island will be ready for new residents.