US 'lukewarm' in backing Zelaya

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has criticised the United States for not doing enough, in his view, to condemn the government which replaced him.

Mr Zelaya was forced out of power, and into exile, last month. He is staying close to the border, in Nicaragua.

He says the US has stopped describing his removal from power as a "coup".

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Mr Zelaya says the US should be doing more to condemn what he describes as the "repressive" nature of the interim government in Honduras.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8169973.stm

[billyoc]

1. Good. The less support he gets from the U.S., the better off he'll be.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Only problem with that is that not supporting him = support for the

coup.

Aren't we supposed to be on the side of the good guys?

[billyoc]

4. The Hondurans will sort out Hillary's golpistas soon enough. They don't need our help.

[WriteDown]

8. If only there was someone above Hillary that could help...

I knew there would be problems when Hillary was elected POTUS.

[billyoc]

9. Nobody above her that disagrees with her.

[David__77]

7. I agree. I'd rather the US be upfront than cunning.

The US is apparently going to support the fascist coup in any case, so it may as well be honest about it. That way nobody will be fooled.

[L. Coyote]

3. BBC! This is the M$M meme today. Read this

Hillary and Obama Nix Change in Honduras
By ROGER BURBACH - http://www.counterpunch.org/burbach07272009.html

I see this headline repeating now, as if Obama and SoS favored the coup.
In some ways, it seems like typical wedge reporting, to wedge Obama supporters away from Obama.

[billyoc]

5. Right... It's not the training, arming and supporting of the golpistas that's the problem,

it's the way the media is REPORTING it that's the problem.

:eyes:

[L. Coyote]

12. Even though the law requires they stop, the training of Honduran military is continuing now

at the School of the Overthrows.

[ro1942]

6. our corporations

he doesn't blindly support our big corporations, that's his problem.

[timeforpeace]

10. Since he's the only one advocating violence in this situation, of course he's now a pariah.

[Flaneur]

11. Did I miss something? When did Zelaya advocate violence?

Last I heard, it was the soldiers who had all the guns. And the soldiers who resorted to military force to remove him. Clue me in, please.

[L. Coyote]

13. The death squads are operating against Zelaya supporters right now!

The situation is not about advocating violence, it is about a violent, armed coup that is killing opposition.