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| Crisis shuts down Haiti assembly |
| 2004-01-12 |
| EFL The mandate of most parliament members in Haiti runs out on Monday - meaning that President Jean-Bertrand Aristide will have to rule by decree. This comes after the largest demonstrations yet against the government on Sunday in the capital Port-au-Prince. A supporter of Mr Aristide was killed in a separate protest. Snip...to the money quote: "George Bush and Colin Powell you have gone to Iraq now you must come to Haiti - Aristide is like Saddam Hussein," said one of the 10,000 demonstrators who crowded through the streets of the Haitian capital on Sunday. (Emphasis added.) |
| Posted by:Dragon Fly |
| #9 Welcome to the new Haiti - same as the old Haiti - the REALLY, REALLY OLD Haiti. If memory serves me (which, since I have CRS, is a big IF), we've sent troops to "restore order" in Haiti at least three, and possibly four times, beginning in the late 1800's. Nothing ever seems to change. Someone mentioned something about stupidity being doing the same things over and expecting different results. That's an excellent definition of the situation in Haiti. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-1-12 10:28:04 PM |
| #8 Isn't Haiti Kofi's shining example of a 'black' state? |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-1-12 9:39:44 PM |
| #7 Yeah. Crisis in Haiti. And in other news, Jon Benet is still dead... |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-1-12 9:27:34 PM |
| #6 Crisis in Haiti! Okay, everybody in the leaky boats! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-1-12 9:14:22 PM |
| #5 I think that was right before Jesse Jackson convinced Clinton to back a new up-and-comer in Liberia... |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-1-12 1:33:23 PM |
| #4 I think they were technically putting him back into office. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-1-12 10:17:39 AM |
| #3 I remember seeing a couple of hundred protesters on the docks,and the MEU sailed away.Who was the Pries.who ordered this shame,why Slick Willie of course. |
| Posted by: raptor 2004-1-12 9:19:32 AM |
| #2 In 1994 the Marines went in. |
| Posted by: Dragon Fly 2004-1-12 8:58:41 AM |
| #1 Didn't Clinton send troops in to put Aristide into office? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-1-12 8:54:30 AM |