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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (14479)	6/29/2009 7:54:05 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

Key leaders of Honduras military coup trained in U.S. But condemning the coup with many others, Hillary Clinton says, "The action taken against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya violates the precepts of the Inter-American Democratic Charter and thus should be condemned by all."

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (14479)	6/29/2009 9:11:24 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

Actually.... both sides in Honduras were clearly in the wrong. The Honduran Supreme Court had already ruled that the President's attempt to ram through a 'constitutional amendment' allowing him to remain in office indefinitely was ILLEGAL. And the military coup that overthrew the government and forced him into exile (instead of using the courts and democratic process to defeat him) has also been unanimously held to be ILLEGAL, and a violation of Treaty obligations, by all of the O.A.S. nations. (It will likely be challenged in the Honduran Court system as well....) So, neither side is 'right'. IMO, President Obama's reaction has been properly nuanced (unlike Bush's reaction to the attempted coup in Venezuela... which allowed Chavez to strengthen his position and make propaganda hay off of us for years). The US has several hundred troops in Honduras, and millions in aid and military training and drug war aid flow to their military every year (including to some of these very same military leaders who lead the military coup....) The US expressed our displeasure with the fact that there was a coup, and that democratic processes were subverted, and urged a restoration of democratic governance as soon as possible... then we shut up and said nothing else, took no action against the coup leaders. And the US/Honduran relationship goes on. (Far more clever then Bush's ham-handed reaction....)