To: cyncooper
Today's Wall Street Journal has an op-ed piece by Raymond A. Joseph, who is described as the "editor of the Haiti Observateur, a weekly paper published in Brooklyn, N.Y." He claims that Aristide and his Democratic allies in the Congressional Black Caucus have planned this for months and publicly threatened it. From the article: "The US was put on notice some time back. Last July, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti gave a lengthy interview to the New York Times, in which he noted that the dire economic situation in his country might force thousands of Haitians to flood the beaches of southern Florida. 'Governor Bush wouldn't want that,' he said, especially in an election year. Mr. Aristide even said, 'Jeb and I are in the same boat,' meaning that a Haitian exodus could jeopardize the president's brother's prospects."
15 posted on
10/31/2002 6:39:38 AM PST by
WarrenC
To: WarrenC; Poohbah; Miss Marple; PhiKapMom; JohnHuang2; Howlin; Congressman Billybob
That is quite interesting.
In fact, it does raise the question as to whether the Dems are, as they did in the Cold War during the Reagan years, trying to get foreign leaders to do things that will impact our elections... AGAIN.
20 posted on
10/31/2002 6:49:13 AM PST by
hchutch
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