Why did Bush authorize Powell to pressure Aristide to leave office? [View All]

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What crimes did Aristide commit to lose his office? What right do we have to pick the leader there?

Didn't he leave because we said we wouldn't guarantee his safety? Clinton did, and backed it up by our forces. Bush watched him fall and did nothing but pressure him to leave when he was under assault. Why didn't we send forces to support his elected presidency?

Why did we refuse to defend democracy there? Especially one that our country had expended money and military to effect in the first place.

Who does Bush support to replace him there? His deputy? Will he defend the government or will he let it fall to the rebel terrorists?

This was one more reversal of the Clinton legacy as Bush, through his negligence and indifference, let the work of the nation and the international community fall by the wayside and fester into a crisis and an emergency that he could exploit to the will of some hack in his mindless cabal.

This is another overthrow of a soverign nation under the Bush doctrine of world dominance. The former Aristide government shouldn't be forced by this Bush league to share power with terrorist rebels.


Thursday, February 26, 2004
On Flashpoints: An update on the US-supported violence in Haiti; Israeli forces continue their ethnic slaughter by the apartheid wall as they take millions from Palestinian bank accounts; Dolores Huerta and immigrant activists take on Pacific Lumber; we focus on women behind bars; The Knight Report.

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Friday, February 27, 2004
Today on Flashpoints: Today on a special national edition of Flashpoints, we spend the hour on the expanding crisis in Haiti. We’ll feature a live report from our special correspondent Kevin Pina, live in Port-au-Prince, we’ll speak with Representative Barbara Lee of California, co-chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, we’ll speak with Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and the host of Family Lavalas on Radio Soleil in Brooklyn, along with several Haitian activists.

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