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To: Road Walker who wrote (184020)	3/3/2004 4:37:38 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573198

The more I read the more I question US actions and motives wrt Haiti. I understand but it all goes back to motivation. What would be our motivation? There's no oil or any other valuable resource. They may not like Aristide but so what.......who needs this kind of aggravation in your backyard...esp. now. Wouldn't you think that, rather than "encourage" a democratically elected President to leave, the US would have tried to defend him from the thugs over-running the country? You would think but frankly, I don't think anyone was watching. I think the WH is so consumed with Iraq, Afghanistan, the Axis of Evil and re election.....not necessarily in that order.......that everything else including Haiti is falling by the wayside. In other words, I don't think they are on top of things.......Haiti being the latest bit of evidence. And its not just Haiti where they are f*kking things up. Up until late last year, this was the teflon WH. They managed to keep things from sticking and when they did stick, they managed to 'destick' them very quickly. In the last two months, they can't seem to do or say anything right. Whether its Iraq or Nat. Guard records or gay marriage, they end up putting their feet in their collective mouths. That tells me that things are out of control. So when Haiti began to defrag, I think they did not have a plan of action nor a clue as to what to do. I think they still don't. ted

To: Road Walker who wrote (184020)	3/3/2004 8:10:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573198

He might have been democratically elected but so was Hitler and Hitler was far more popular in Germany that Aristide was in Haiti. Haiti hasn't been a functioning democracy and Aristide has been ruling be decree. We encourage him to leave because he was going to lose and the faster he stepped down the faster Haiti could return to something that at least vaguely resembles peace. The other alternatives would have been to forcibly impose an unpopular ruler on Haiti, or maybe just to rule Haiti as a colony. I wouldn't support either of those ideas. Tim