MEMORY HOLE: "Some Lawmakers Say Clinton Can Order Haiti Invasion/Clinton's Haitian Nightmare"

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(From the "THEY ALL DO IT DEPARTMENT"...Fascinating the rationale for Haiti Invasion and the opposing views at that time...)

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Some Lawmakers Say Clinton Can Order Haiti Invasion
By ERIC SCHMITT,
Published: September 9, 1994
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/09/world/some-lawmakers-say-clinton-can-order-haiti-invasion.html

Several influential Democrats have told the Clinton Administration that it will not need formal Congressional approval to invade Haiti, and the Pentagon announced today that seven large civilian-operated cargo ships had been activated for possible use in any military action there.

Defense Department officials have also told lawmakers that they have more than doubled -- to about 20,000 -- the size of an American-led invasion force that would be used to restore the exiled President of Haiti, the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Some Administration officials said there would soon be an effort to recruit Haitians from the refugees now at the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to form an auxiliary police force that would follow an invasion of Haiti.

The auxiliary police offciers would supplement international military police contingents and members of the existing Haitian police force who were found to be loyal to the Aristide Government.

A day after President Clinton's senior foreign policy advisers reviewed war-planning options, Administration officials made plans to begin a series of briefings for key lawmakers next week on American objectives in Haiti and details of an invasion. Aware that Mr. Clinton must take steps himself to persuade the public and Congress of the need for military action in Haiti, Administration officials also said Mr. Clinton may give a speech or news conference on Haiti next week. Moving Combat Equipment

In spite of all this activity, the potential for an invasion of Haiti and its timing remained uncertain. The Administration has been conducting a slowly intensifying effort on two fronts: a public campaign to persuade the Haitian junta of Mr. Clinton's seriousness about an invasion, and thus perhaps make one unnecessary, and a private effort to continue laying the military and politcal groundwork for military action should it prove unavoidable.


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Clinton's Haitian Nightmare

By MICHAEL RADU, FrontPageMagazine.com

Ten years ago, in September 1994, U.S. troops invaded Haiti under the auspices of restoring democracy, human rights and the rule of law. At the time, the Clinton-conceived operation was hailed by leftists as a model of liberal interventionism, as former Catholic priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide was restored to power and an oppressive military regime was ousted. There was only one problem with this scenario: not only was Aristide vehemently anti-capitalist and (ironically) anti-American, he was every bit as brutal a despot as his predecessors. To make matters worse, the Clinton administration knew beforehand of Aristide’ s radical pedigree but chose to prop him into the dictator’s chair anyway, in one of foreign policy's all-time worst liberal bungles. Today, the disastrous results of Clinton’s experiment in Caribbean colonialism are painfully evident.

http://www.wehaitians.com/clinton%20haitian%20nightmare.html

[KoKo]

1. I think We Forget how many of our Both Repug and Dem Presidents have Invaded...

and not "quite" gotten that long forgotten " Constitutional Congressional Approval" for their Actions.

But, none of these invasions seemed to change anything...except showing Presidential Power to Show Muscle.

In fact the latest ones: Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia (Yemen and Pakistan throught Drones and Syria through putting in Protesters with questionable loyalties) and NOW THREATS against RUSSIA all seem Part of a Pattern of Aggression against anyone who disagrees with us in our Global Aspirations along with the EU and the International Monetary Fund and Wall Street/London Bankers!

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