**BREAKING NEWS** -- THE RETURN OF ARISTIDE: Democracy Now!'s Exclusive

[eablair3]

Audio interviews by Amy Goodman before getting on the plane Sat night can be heard at the link below. The transcript is up at the link, too. The flight left at 9 pm Saturday night from a private airfield in Miami. Goodman said the plane is making stops in St. Thomas and Senegal before reaching CAR to retrieve Aristide and his wife, Mildred.

Goodman interviewed Maxine Waters, Sharon Hay-Webster, the rep of Jamaican Prime Minister PJ PAtterson, and Randall Robinson.

Not a lot said, but the reports should be interesting once they get Aristide out of CAR.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/13/1835255
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**BREAKING NEWS**
THE RETURN OF ARISTIDE: Democracy Now!'s Exclusive Reports on the Haitian President's Return to the Caribbean

Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman is currently on board a plane en route to the Central African Republic. She is accompanying a delegation that will escort President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Jamaica, which has offered to host him. The delegation includes Rep. Maxine Waters, Randall Robinson, an emmisary of the Jamaican prime minister as well as Aristide's lawyer, Ira Kurzban.

On Saturday night shortly before 9 p.m. a U.S. and Jamaican delegation left Miami headed to the Central African Republic to return President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his wife Mildred back to the Caribbean.

Aboard the plane were U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson, and attorney Ira Kurzban and Jamaican parliamentarian Sharon Hay-Webster will be representing the Government of Jamaica and Caricom. Accompanying the delegation are journalists Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! and Peter Eisner of the Washington Post. The delegation is expected to arrive in the Central African Republic on Sunday, March 14, and is expected to arrive in Jamaica, along with the Aristides, on Monday March 15, 2004. Democracy Now! will be providing reports throughout the weekend.


http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/13/1835255

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[Tinoire]

2. No. We save that sort of tripe for Free Republic and the idiots

who believe every shit word out of Bush's mouth.

:hi:

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[Tinoire]

10. Na ya. Sure. And who killed Jean Dominique?

Who by the fucking way happened to be a relative of mine.

Tatoune.

Fucking Tatoune. One of the heroes all the Bush administration shills are embracing right now dragging Jean's name through the mud.

You're transparent but not amusing.

Dark skinned people. all over the world, working for the advancement of the master race right? Long life to sweatshops all over the world!

Urgh. :puke:

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[eablair3]

23. again, unsupported, ... no facts

I guess your garbage posts are supposed to imply that Aristide killed someone? None of your links say that. Not one of em.

And, I responded to your human rights watch blurb below. it didn't stand or support anything you've asserted here either.

[Rex]

28. It appears they just give out blogs to any old body nowadays

*indignant sniff*

Did you check out the Grand Poobas blog? LOLOL. It would be funny except that he believe that wacked shit. :eyes:

EDIT - hey Grand Poobe, where did your blog linky go? Trying to hide your agenda eh? Typical.

[Kool Kitty]

3. Want to talk corrupt elections in 2000?

Let's start with the Presidential election right here in the US, shall we?

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[Kool Kitty]

9. Sorry, I didn't mean to be disrespectful.

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[eablair3]

8. yeah, the Aristide election was rated credible while Bush's was not

it's quite ironic that the BushCo keep asserting the "flawed" election lies wrt to Aristide.

of course, it's not surprising since credible international election monitors said they would not have certified BushCo's.

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[eablair3]

5. nice try

an obvious flamer post. No facts. No reasons. No links. Just unsupported propaganda and lies.

This is typical of what Bush* and the Repugs assert in their unsupported propaganda campaign to demonize Aristide by lying.

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[eablair3]

16. yes, still unsupported -- the usual garbage

Aristide wasn't elected in the supposedly "flawed" elections of May 2000. Aristide was elected in November and those elections were certified as credible and fairly run by international organizations. (btw, the only "flaw" in the May 2000 elections was that the right-wing opposition refused to participate and boycotted them. they knew they couldn't win, so they boycotted and claimed they were flawed. nice try but far from accurate.)

This has been posted about many times in here. So, perhaps before running off and re-posting all this crap again, you should just go back and read previous threads over the last 2 weeks, especially seeing as how you must be new with only a few posts.

and, I didn't see any info or evidence in your post to support your assertion (or lie) that Aristide is "corrupt" and/or a "thug". Still unsupported. No facts. No reasons. No links.

You don't even know in which election Aristide was elected in.

[Tinoire]

25. That's the funniest. This person doesn't even have a clue.

Just cuts and pastes RW garbage. Kind of reminds me of... ;)

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[Tinoire]

27. Merhaba

:hi:

Saving my energy for real THUGS like Sharon. :)

[fearnobush]

15. Bush is toast, accept it.

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[caledesi]

19. Gee, I thought the Repugs love to deal w/ dictators. I mean

must we forget that we loved Saddam Hussein? Pinochet? Mussharrf?


How soon they forget!

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[Dirty Hippie]

13. I made up my mind about Aristide

when I read Dr. Paul Farmer still supports him. Dr. Farmer, the subject of the book "Mountains Beyond Mountains" has been in Haiti over 20 years providing health care to the poor. His story is amazing.

If this guy supports Aristide, I am inclined to do likewise.

[Tinoire]

14. Yeah but you read as opposed to parroting RW propaganda

Thanks for having read that.

[Dirty Hippie]

18. It was a great read.

I learned quite a bit about Haiti in the process and gained a new respect for her people.

I breaks my heart to hear about the violence. Haitians have suffered so much already.

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29. locking

Sorry about the disruption, folks. Please repost, and hopefully it'll stay clean this time. A certain person is no longer with us.

Just too many posts to delete at this point, I'm afraid.