Posted on 10/09/2009 6:57:13 PM PDT by opentalk
After visiting Tegucigalpa last week and meeting with a cross section of leaders from Honduras's government, business community, and civil society, I can report there is no chaos there. There is, however, chaos to spare in the Obama administration's policy toward our poor and loyal allies in Honduras. In a day packed with meetings, we met only one person in Honduras who opposed Mr. Zelaya's ouster, who wishes his return, and who mystifyingly rejects the legitimacy of the November elections: U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens.
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I am surprised he was ‘allowed’ to go on this trip. This should be in breaking news.
*Bump*
Senator DeMint just layed the smack down on the administration. It’s no wonder they didn’t want him to go: they knew he’d come back and write a piece like this.
I hope that Senator DeMint speaks up in Congress and gets this information on C-Span and in the Congressional Record.
0bama-Care = Waterloo
0bama-Afghanistan = Vietnam
0bama-Iran = Armageddon
Molon Labe!
He’s the best senator (or maybe congressman as well) that we have right now.
This is big news.
No kidding!
why the U.S. government insists on labeling what appears to the entire country to be the constitutional removal of Mr. Zelaya a "coup," he urged me to read the legal opinion drafted by the State Department's top lawyer, Harold Koh. As it happens, I have asked to see Mr. Koh's report before and since my trip, but all requests to publicly disclose it have been denied.
State Department will not show congressmen its legal opinion
He had to travel on his own dime. John Kerry, who visited our Vietnam enemies in Paris, stopped any government money to pay for DeMint's trip to visit our Honduran allies.
I sent the mods a request to put this in breaking news. This is a HUGH story.
I think John Kerry tried to stop the trip.
I didn’t know that. Thank you, what a class act.
I tend to agree. Bravo Senator DeMint!
It’s interesting how in this piece he’s daring the administration to make the State Department’s legal analysis of the “coup” public. That analysis is obviously at direct odds with the recent Library of Congress analysis and is the basis of the administration’s policy. But the administration has refused to make it public. I’m guessing they know it’s shaky and would get torn to pieces if it were.
Nobel Prize Winner Supports Lawlessness and Forments Unrest in A Democracy in Favor of Dictatorship.
The Punk in chief needs to be kicked out of office by any legal means necessary.
That jumped out at me too.
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Odinga-like bump.
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