Caribbean said not to accept Haiti gov't

[seemslikeadream]

By BERT WILKINSON, Associated Press
Last updated: 5:16 p.m., Friday, March 26, 2004

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts -- The 15-nation Caribbean Community does not plan to recognize Haiti's new U.S.-backed interim government, senior Caribbean officials said Friday.


Several senior officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the region's leaders made the decision by consensus on their second and final day of a summit.

They said they decided not have formal relations with the new government due to concerns about the departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 29 and the precedent it could set.

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=232501&category=&BCCode=&newsdate=3/26/2004

[boobooday]

1. Jamaica decided to GET UP, STAND UP

I'm so proud of them!

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[SmokeyBlues]

2. Oh shucks!

The cabal is going to be mighty pissed off! How dare those puny island nations defy the cabal's wishes!

In fact, didn't Condi issue a threat to Jamaica just the other day?! Man, she sure has been in the news a lot lately!

[Judi Lynn]

3. I read that, too. She surely did. Sounded just like the pResident.

It could have just as easily been spoken by _{George W. Bush} himself.

You only find out if you stumble across the papers on small islands, but _Bush's ambassadors threaten and meddle in Caribbean island government decisions CONTINUALLY, even down to making trouble for them, as in Bermuda's case, if they attempt to sell their USED BUSES to a _Bush enemy, like Cuba.

Sick, sick administration. Brave, brave little islands to stand up to these scums.

[SmokeyBlues]

5. Yet another reason...

Why they all have to go! And the sooner the better!

[seemslikeadream]

4. What's not to accept?

Haitian rebel leader Louis-Jodel Chamblain is seen in front of the burning police station of Cap-Haitien, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2004. Rebels on Sunday seized the government's last major bastion in the north, Cap-Haitien, shooting off celebratory rounds in the air as people looted and several torched buildings sent a pall of black smoke over the city. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)



Haitian rebel leader Guy Philippe speaks with a rebel soldier in front of the Mont Joli Hotel in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, Monday, Feb. 23, 2004. Rebels who overran Haiti's second-largest city of Cap-Haitien began detaining people identified as supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Monday and said they would attack the capital Port-au-Prince soon. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)

[Moderator]

6. locking

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