Haitian president calls for stop to food riots

[Robbien]

Source: AP

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - President Rene Preval is calling on Haitians to quit rioting over high food prices, telling them I'm giving you orders to stop.

In his first public remarks since the unrest began last week, Preval told Haitians that soaring food prices are a global phenomenon.

Read more: http://www.pr-inside.com/haitian-president-calls-for-stop-to-r528815.htm

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What a moron.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Why not just ask poor people to stop being hungry while he's at it?

Is that Preval's idea of leadership? Has he been taking lessons from *?

[panAmerican]

2. Once he was PM of 1st democratically elected Prez of Haiti, now a US puppet

What a difference a few years make.

[Judi Lynn]

3. When they HAD a President who put the poor of Haiti first, both Bushes had him removed. n/t

[Ilsa]

11. Why isn't the US helping to feed those people if Preval is a puppet

govt of the US? Come on, Bush*!

What good is freedom if people having to eat, huh, W?

[Judi Lynn]

4. There's a map at this Guardian blog showing where the food riots have been. Sad.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2008/04/food_riots.html

[JerseygirlCT]

5. What is this - let them eat cake?

The situation there is so horrible, so dire.

[Karenina]

7. They are! Mud cookies to relieve the hunger pangs.

http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=623

[JerseygirlCT]

8. That's right! I knew that, and didn't even put the two thoughts

together.

Shameful. Horrible and shameful that we can, as a country, sit by and watch this happen right next door, really.

A little help from us would do SO much good! But instead we need to spend billions on Iraq.

[cliss]

6. Oh, that ought to solve the problem.

"Quit rioting".

Is Bertrand Aristide still under house arrest in Africa?
This is one of the worst cases of malign neglect by the US.

[Joanne98]

9. Shut up and die in silence!

:sarcasm:

[Ilsa]

10. NBC Nightly News just reported on the mud cookies.

They have a reporter and a crew with her there.