Powell on Haiti: US "Prevented a Blood Bath and a Coup from Taking Place."

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http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/3/16/0120/39322#9



" rejected the idea of having the United Nations investigate Aristide's ouster.  "I don't think any purpose would be served by such an inquiry. The facts are very well-known,'' Powell said. "It was six weeks ago that Haiti was on the verge of total security collapse. We prevented a blood bath and a coup from taking place.''

That's right.  Collin Powell is actually saying (presumably with a straight face) that the U.S. prevented a coup!

Narco News and the Narcosphere are kicking ass these days

Giordano Wins Upton Sinclair Award for Press Freedom

http://www.narconews.com/Issue32/article938.html


With Krassner, Flanders, Goodman, Robbins, Invited to Receive Award on May 15th in the Port of Los Angeles

By Adam Saytanides
Special to The Narco News Bulletin

April 4, 2004

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California will honor Narco News publisher Al Giordano at the Second Annual Upton Sinclair Freedom of Expression Awards on May 15 in San Pedro, California.

The fledgling Upton Sinclair Freedom of Expression Awards – known as “the Uppies” – are the brainchild of Dan Pasley, director of the San Pedro Alternative Media Council. The South Bay Chapter of the ACLU of Southern California sponsors the awards ceremony.

[sniffa]

1. he mispoke

he meant, "the u.s. aided and abetted a coup"

[whatelseisnew]

2. He is a master of mis-Speak

Harry Belefonte was right

[karabekian]

6. wow that racist of you

"Harry Belefonte was right"
You mean he was right because he called him a "house negro" because they disagree politically. Now you are. Sigh...

[whatelseisnew]

8. You would be more effective if you could even get the qoute right

the right is so often wrong, are you?

On edit, maybe you were being sarcastic in reference to the DU

racism threads from earlier, I have no way of knowing.

I hope you were, but there is not much humor in replacing Belefonte's "slave" with your word, "negro". You look either stupid

or insensitive.

[Tinoire]

18. House negro? I recall cheering to a different word

At the rally this Black woman attended, Belafonte called him a "house nigger" and you know what? We all cheered.

Yep... we're plotting to burn the effing corporate plantation down... no matter how many "house niggers" the Bush-loving-plantation masters parade around in all their fine silks.

Gonna burn the cotton to the ground ;)

Slavemasters gonna start weeping wailing and gnashing their teeth real soon ;) Whoops! You mean they already are?

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Harry Belafonte's reference to Colin Powell as a House Nigger is not new to Blacks
By Sinclere Lee


WASHINGTON (BNW) -- To be a Black in the Republican Party, you have to be a house nigger, and Harry Belafonte remarks calling Colin Powell one is something that may sound shocking to most white, but it’s very familiar to Black American. All Blacks who called themselves Republicans must sellout their culture and race to tow the party line.

<snip>

"There's an old saying," Belafonte said. "In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master ... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him.

"Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture."

<snip>

http://www.blacknewsweekly.com/195.html

Those who are suddenly so sensitive about racial injustice just keep Powell ok? ;) We don't want him. Oh and keep Condi Rice-paste also.

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Powell could have slowed the train down. He has plenty of money; his family is safe; he is a world leader; So if all this is true why in the hell won't he say anything to stop the war?

Why? Because Powell is a HOUSE NEGRO AND A PUNKISH BROWN NOSING SERVANT OF BUSH and RUMSFELD. Thank you Mr. Harry Belafonte for pointing this out!

http://www.blackwebportal.com/forums/viewmessages.cfm?
Forum=6&Topic=2601


Powell is a MOFO! The USA has zero reason to aggressively seek disarmament of Iraq when the won't do the same to Israel.

Was Timothy McVey right? Is this government just plain evil.

Big Shout out to all, man.
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Powell is a house nigger because he helps the current owners of the house(government) keep control over the niggers in the field(society), to his own benefit, and to our chagrin. This is a parasitic relationship, and it is also a method of psychological coercian aimed at the darker people. We are supposed to believe that we have an equal place in this society, and the opportunity to live well here. This is the bait. This is the prize that the devil tries to sell us in hopes that we will give him our lives, the fruits of our efforts, love, and power. The dream he offers us is not reality, but actually a one way ticket to the destruction of your true self, mentally and physically.
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Beware of a hawk in dove's clothing

By Sharon Smith | August 30, 2002 | Page 7

AS THE debate over invading Iraq continues, Secretary of State Colin Powell appears to be a voice of sanity--urging caution while George W. Bush races to start another war.

To be sure, Powell’s calm and patient demeanor stands in sharp contrast to the hyperventilating hawks dominating the Bush administration. Prior to the start of the war against Afghanistan last fall, Powell was even dubbed a "dove" by the mass media for his insistence on building international support for the war before the U.S. started bombing.

But Colin Powell is as bloodthirsty as the rest of the warmongers in the Bush administration. In fact, the key element of the "Powell Doctrine" is the use of overwhelming U.S. military force, with no regard for civilian casualties on the other side.

Powell’s own murderous record speaks for itself. As he rose up the military ladder during the Vietnam War, he burned Vietnamese villagers from their homes and then helped to cover up the widespread killing and torture of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. soldiers.

In 1968, a soldier named Tom Glen wrote a letter documenting this pattern of abuse by entire units of the 11th Light Infantry Brigade (also known as the "Butcher’s Brigade"). Earlier that year, U.S. soldiers had raped, tortured and then slaughtered 347 old men, women and children at the village of My Lai. The unit that carried out the My Lai massacre was part of the 11th Brigade, although Glen did not specifically discuss the incident.

Major Colin Powell, who investigated Glen’s letter from the American headquarters at Chu Lai, never even contacted Glen before dismissing his claims. "In direct refutation of portrayal is the fact that relations between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent," Powell wrote. The Vietnam War, all told, killed seven million civilians.

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Powell is a blood thirsty dog just like the rest of Bush's posse. Always has been! I told everyone on this board when Bush appointed Rice and Powell this would happen. But, most everyone at that time wanted to defend these appointments at the time as, it would be something great for the Black American (what do your think now?). I don't think Powell is over his head about anything, he is in the same bed. Belafonte was right about Powell being a house Nigger, but it's worst than that, he's a blood thirsty house NIGGER.

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I usually don't listen to Uncle Colin and Aunt Condoleeza, cause they sound like slaves to me. But that is what we can expect from African-americans who become conservative republicans. Black GOP's are meanspirited,backwards, selfish, and nothing but sell outs to the black race. And they have the nerve to think that black people will support them in the 2004 election. That will never happen because they don't support black people. We black folks just got to get together and vote all of those nasty people out of congress and out of the presidency next year. That's if we still got a country.

http://www.blackwebportal.com/forums/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=6&Topic=2601

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For Powell and Rice, the term is too kind. It's unfortunate Malcolm X isn't around to call them what they really are.

[whatelseisnew]

20. This is news to me, I recall reading reports only quoting "house slave"

I am not surprised that media reports would leave out the stronger language because they do such a good job of 'protecting' the delicate sensibilities of the US public :PUKE:

[dogman]

14. He mis-speaks for the Master.

Life is good in the big house.

[cosmicdot]

3. he'll be scheduled for round-robin corporate media chat circuit

to have the pundits and spinmasters not question him on misspeaking ... only to repeat the lies, patting each other on the butt ...

[whatelseisnew]

5. Yeah, the corporate whore media will never play this quote

[leesa]

4. First-graders playing the 'opposite game'. Everything they say is the

opposite of reality.

[Fleshdancer]

7. riiight.

See kids, we prevented a blood bath in Haiti and created one in Iraq, so really it all just sort of evens out! Re-elect us!

[seemslikeadream]

Operation Jaded Task

from htuttle


Operation Jaded Task


Once again, Pravda had it first -- last year.

From 2/23/2003:




US Troopers Secretly Land in Dominican Republic
http://english.pravda.ru/world/2003/02/20/43514.html
The military training operation nicknamed Jaded Task took by surprise Dominican Foreign Ministry.

The US Army started today a training operation in the Caribbean country as part of routine maneuvers of the Southern Command. The landing had been kept so secretly that Dominican Foreign Ministry Hugo Tolentino was reported... by the TV.

As per the first reports, the US troops are training Dominican soldiers on anti-terrorism operations in the north of the island. When the national media started announcing the landing, country's Foreign Minister was having a lunch. Tolentino said that, as chief of the Dominican diplomacy, he should have been formally advised, as personally requested to the Dominican Army and the US Embassy to Santo Domingo.

(snip)

However, the most interesting thing, here, is that the Communist Party of the Dominican Republic did know about the operations. This correspondent had access to two formal communications issued by the US Embassy including details of these activities, during the Communist summit held in Buenos Aires in January. There, the US ambassador to Santo Domingo reported about 10.000 soldiers coming to the Dominican Republic to take part of the training.

Moreover, the communists and other leftist forces in the country made know such documents to the local media in November. According to the denounce, US soldiers can freely enter and leave the country without any kind of permission. Also, they can do it through owned means of conveyance.

(more at link)

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9. Conclusive Evidence of U.S. Role in Kidnapping and Coup

PRESS ADVISORY
Monday, April 4, 2004
Media Contact: Dustin Langley 212-633-6646

As Bush Administration Scrambles to Shore Up Appointed Haitian Regime Commission to Present Conclusive Evidence of U.S. Role in Kidnapping and Coup

Date: Wednesday, April 7
Time: 6:30- 9:30 pm
Location: The Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College

Panel to include: Rep. Maxine Waters, Rep. Major Owens, Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Ossie Davis, Gil Noble, Amy Goodman, Ron Daniels, and other prominent activists and journalists

The Bush Administration is facing a growing crisis over its role in the coup in Haiti and the kidnapping of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who continues to speak out about his abduction by the U.S. The 15-member organization of Caribbean nations, CARICOM, has refused to recognize the U.S.-installed regime and has called for an investigation, despite intense pressure and threats from the U.S. The 53-member African Union has raised the same demand.

On Wednesday, April 7, the Haiti Commission of Inquiry will initiate a public inquiry of the role of the Bush Administration in the crisis in Haiti. Delegations that visited both the Central African Republic and the Dominican Republic will present conclusive evidence that U.S. Special Forces armed, trained, and directed the "rebels" and engineered the abduction of President Aristide.

The preliminary report from the Commission states, "two hundred U.S. Special Forces soldiers came to the Dominican Republic as part of 'Operation Jaded Task,' with special authorization from President Hipólito Mejia. We have received many reports that this operation was used to train Haitian rebels. We have received many consistent reports of Haitian rebel training centers at or near Dominican military facilities. We have received many consistent reports of guns transported from the Dominican Republic to Haiti, some across the land border, and others shipped by sea."

Johnnie Stevens of the International Action Center, a member of the delegation to the Central African Republic, said, "The U.S.-installed Prime Minister, Gerard Latortue, has hailed the paid mercenaries as freedom fighters, and had thus discredited himself among the Caribbean nations."

Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a desperate bid to lend some credibility to the Latortue government, is now visiting Haiti for the first time. This attempt to put U. S. weight behind the isolated colonial-style regime is a response to its growing isolation. Sara Flounders, of the International Action Center, said, "This visit by Powell is a sign of the Bush Administration’s growing isolation and disarray. The U.S. is desperately trying to shore up a discredited regime in the face of international opposition to the appointed government of Haiti after the stinging rebuke directed at the U.S. by the recent CARICOM meeting." Flounders is a member of the Haiti Commission of Inquiry and was part of the delegation to the Central African Republic, where she visited with President Aristide shortly after his kidnapping.

Kim Ives from Haiti Progres, who was part of the delegation to the Dominican Republic, told the media, "In the course of our investigation here, we met with many Haitians who were forced to flee Haiti following the coup d'etat of Feb. 29. Their testimony gave very concrete names and faces to the stories of violence which we have heard that the so-called rebels, trained and assembled in the Dominican Republic, have carried out in Haiti over the past month. We were also touched by the tears of refugees who told us of how they are apprehensive over the fate of their loved ones left behind in Haiti."

For more information, or to schedule an interview with a member of the Commission, call Dustin Langley at 212-633-6646.

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[Karenina]

11. Tell 'em about

the REAL DEAL, dearest Seemster. :loveya: Repetition, repetition.

Q: How do you get to Carnegie Hall???
A: Practice, Practice: Practice. ;-)

If there was a "bloodbath" brewing, the U.S. of A. was STIRRING THE POT.

[seemslikeadream]

12. So many wars, coups and genocides

how does one keep up? Powell's Haiti









Haitian rebel leaders, Buteur Metayer, left, Guy Philippe, second from left, and T-Wil, right, along with an unidentified rebel, center, laugh during a rally in Gonaives, where the fighters announced a new name for their joint movement, the National Resistance Front To Liberate Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004. An uprising aimed at ousting President Jean-Bertrand Aristide erupted in Gonaives, Haiti's fourth-largest city, on Feb. 5 and has spread to more than a dozen towns. Philippe was Aristide's police chief in Cap-Haitien until he was accused of fomenting a coup and fled to the Dominican Republic in 2002. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)







Thank you Karenina

[seemslikeadream]

10. Watch this video

http://www.ericblumrich.com/pax.html

[whatelseisnew]

13. kick that

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15. kick

[tom_paine]

16. Colon Fould added, "War is peace, you know."

"Slavery is Freedom."
"Ignorance is Strength so stop asking me questions, traitor!'

Colon Foul is the most treasonous military man in this nation since Benedict Arnold. He is more of a betrayer of both his Nation than Robert E. Lee and Jeb Stuart.

At least THEY were honest about how they felt.

[whatelseisnew]

17. kick

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19. kick