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2004-01-31 Caribbean
Nonessential Diplomats Told to Leave Haiti
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Posted by Steve White 2004-01-31 12:33:45 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Lies, all lies! Everyone knows that Clinton solved the Haitian problem by restoring thugocracy democracy to Haiti when it sent U.S. troops to prop up that pseudo-Marxist kleptocrat freedom-fighting democrat, JB Aristede. And since then Haiti has been a gul-durned caribbean paradise, second only to Cuba-- maybe even ahead of Cuba! I have heard, for example, that literacy rates in Haiti now top Cuba's 99% rate, soaring past 110%! Plus which, health care has become universal and free in Aristede's Haiti, which-- though it has had the unfortunate consequence of making for long lines at the local reader of chicken entrails physician, all de folks standin' on de lines say dey happy, happy, happy, massuh.

I just don't know where you guys get your so-called "information" about Haiti. You must be watching Fox News or something...



Posted by WUZZALIB  2004-1-31 4:14:50 AM||   2004-1-31 4:14:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Seriously, at first glance I thought it was "Nonsensical diplomats told to leave Haiti." Basically just a paraphrase anyway.
Posted by Dan (not Darling) 2004-1-31 4:52:29 AM||   2004-1-31 4:52:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Non-essential" Diplomats?

From the Department of Redundancy Department?
Posted by Mercutio 2004-1-31 10:54:28 AM||   2004-1-31 10:54:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Hope this isn't OT, but the New York Sun (a local 25-cent 'on the go' broadsheet with neocon tendencies and pointed slanting) has a regular section on Haiti, and yesterday's was on the possibility of Bush losing votes from Haitian-Americans on this -- one group declaring themselves "80,000 voters in Dade County" ...
Posted by Lu Baihu  2004-1-31 1:36:20 PM||   2004-1-31 1:36:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 At the same time, the department cautioned U.S. citizens against going to Haiti...

Shit! There goes my vacation plans.
Posted by tu3031 2004-1-31 2:23:58 PM||   2004-1-31 2:23:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Sorry 'bout that, tu. Talk with your tavel agent. Maybe she can arrange a lovely fortnight in Somalia or Zimbabwe.
Posted by Gasse Katze 2004-1-31 5:08:41 PM||   2004-1-31 5:08:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't know, GK. I hear Pakistan's nice. Especially the border provinces.
Posted by tu3031 2004-1-31 6:55:56 PM||   2004-1-31 6:55:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't know, GK. I hear Pakistan's nice. Especially the border provinces.
Yeah, I had a tourist agent like that once - even gave me clothes to wear and a nice dirty M-16 to carry. Getting over was easy - it was the getting back that was difficult...
Posted by Old Patriot  2004-1-31 7:14:18 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm]  2004-1-31 7:14:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Does anyone else think that part of the plague of these "Dictators for Life" is caused by the extremely bad investment advice they recieve. They ought to have mandatory investment seminars that the rookie despots attend before taking over a country. The NFL and NBA do that with good results.
Realistically, a guy like Castro has a long career and all these "tin-horns" think that they are going to get a 30 or 40 year slop at the public trough as well. Somebody needs to tell these clowns that few dictators make it past five years when their locals realize that there isn't going to be another election. Also, at a certain point, their loyal military commanders realize that four-star general is as they're going up the food chain unless some room is amde in the penthouse. Their wives start nagging the with the old, "when are you going to make dictator. Look at the oppulence that the ... yak, yak yak..."
Posted by Super Hose  2004-1-31 7:43:58 PM||   2004-1-31 7:43:58 PM|| Front Page Top

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