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U.S. treads carefully in Honduras crisis
Los Angeles Times ^
| June 29, 2009
| Paul Richter
Posted on 06/29/2009 7:08:40 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
A U.S. effort to forestall a military takeover failed, and it is now focused on encouraging a political solution. But it doesn't threaten sanctions and won't say whether it regards events as a coup.
Reporting from Washington -- After failing to stave off the military coup in Honduras, the Obama administration moved gingerly Monday to try to undo it, leaving key levers of U.S. influence untouched as it urged Hondurans and other countries in the region to seek a settlement.
The administration's approach appeared designed to avoid damaging Washington's ties either to U.S.-allied backers of the coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya or the regional powers who have universally condemned it.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: honduras; obama; propaganda; zelaya
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
It wasn’t a coup.
It was the Supreme Court and their Congress following their constitution and laws.
GEEZUS!
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:10:11 PM PDT
by
Principled
(Get the capital back! NRST!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hmmm.... as our generals seem to be asleep, maybe we could get the Honduran military to overthrow OUR government, too ?!?!?!
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:10:11 PM PDT
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Treads carefully?
Obama is peeing down his leg in his anticipation of trying to put a fellow marxist back in an office he was legally thrown out of.
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:10:43 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Yea right! Calling something illegal and demanding reinstatement is treading carefully?
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:10:51 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The new USA.
Leftwing Dictators = good
Religious Fanatics = good
The only American ally in the middle east = bad
We are doomed as a nation.
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:11:14 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Climate change alarmists are Warm-Mongers. Now that's funny right there. I don't care who you are.)
To: tobyhill
So Obama says it’s illegal,...but LA Times says he is not calling it a coup...yet.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Once again, the MSM covering Obammie the Commie's trail of ineptitude by casting his reaction to foreign situation as “calibrated,” or “reserved,” or “patient,” or “thoughtful.”
Hey, Soetoro, how is that little situation in Iran “playing out”?
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:11:32 PM PDT
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(The most dangerous fascists are those with a warm smile and soothing voice.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
More right wing extremists defending their Constitution.
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:12:50 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! FairTaxNation.com)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:12:53 PM PDT
by
TXBlair
(Hey! Jermaine Jackson stole my kid's name--Jermajesty is mine!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"The administration's approach appeared designed to avoid damaging Washington's ties either to U.S.-allied backers of the coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya or the regional powers who have universally condemned it." Typical Obama adolescent 'can't we all get along' dodge. This guy couldn't take a hard position on Adolph Hitler. "US votes 'PRESENT'"
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:12:59 PM PDT
by
norwaypinesavage
(Global Warming Theory is extremely robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Honduran Congress appoints a new leader and they still call it a “military takeover”.
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:13:41 PM PDT
by
free me
(Sarah Palin 2012!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
It wasn’t a coup! It was completely legal under Honduras law!
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:14:11 PM PDT
by
Castigar
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Hondurans try to prevent a Chavez like takeover of their country and we waffle all over the place!
The military is not trying to take over the country as far as I can tell.
They back the constitutional succession and subsequent elections.
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:15:16 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I'm so confused anymore. The more the MSM tries to stick-up for this clown the dumber they sound.
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:17:17 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The LA Slimes will never tell their readers that Zelaya tried to do an end run around the Constitution by holding a “popular survey” to allow him to stay on as president (ala Hugo Chavez) using ballots flown in from Venezuela.
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:21:52 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(GSA! (Goodbye sweet America))
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I admit I get confused in this rabbit hole we’ve been tossed down. I thought The Messiah didn’t want to “meddle” in Iran while the people there protest their fraudulent election, but now He’s saying that in Honduras it’s ok for Him to intervene when those people are successful in ousting a non-democratically elected prez?
It’s so hard to keep all this straight. (Are we even allowed to use that word anymore???)
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:24:01 PM PDT
by
caper gal 1
(Who is John Galt?)
To: April Lexington
our generals seem to be asleep...
Too busy on golf courses negotiating lucrative consulting jobs with the likes of Raytheon and General Dynamics after they retire from the military to be bothered with such trivialities as "enemies foreign and domestic".
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:27:37 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
the Obama administration moved gingerly Monday to try to undo it "...no country should impose its politics or values on other countries."
If you're going to be a hypocrite, Obama, at least be a hypocrite while doing the right thing.
You disgust me.
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posted on
06/29/2009 7:33:01 PM PDT
by
skeeter
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