Why is Aristide still alive?

[leanings]

If we kidnapped him, why did we let him live to tell the tale? If this whole episode was engineered by the US it would have been much easier and cleaner to have him knocked off by a "sleeper cell".

[KG]

1. the french were involved.

might have something to do with it, maybe not.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

6. As another DUer remarked, Bush is no longer in control of the situation

Around the world, he's burned too many bridges, and either doesn't know or doesn't care. We're witnessing blowback in many places at once.

[MGKrebs]

2. Either he was supposed to keep his mouth shut,

in which case, keep an eye on the health of his family members, or they are just so arrogant that they don't care anymore. Which would be their downfall.

"They" being the BFEE/PNAC, just to be clear.

[Darranar]

3. I think they were afraid to kill him...

had they taken him in secret, they would have done so, but the news was slowly coming out.

Killing him would demolish any doubts about any intended malice in the matter. Now they can say they were trying to protect him or some such.

7. that's my call too

they've had so much start to come out recently, they were afraid that that would come out also.

[DuctapeFatwa]

4. unnecessary overcautiousness, not unlike the cover ban at Dover

where they bring US "casualties."

[blondeatlast]

5. Killing him is too obvious. nt

[iamjoy]

8. Don't Think It's Bush

I just can't think of a reason why Bush would want Aristide out, I mean, it isn't like there is oil in Haiti. I mean, if Bush wanted to encourage a coup, why wouldn't he do that in Cuba?

[mzmolly]

9. I wondered the same thing. I know they have his family so??

Perhaps they hoped to intimidate in that manner?

[Dirk39]

10. What do you think would happen in Haiti...

Or maybe he doesn't want middle-class Europeans to become "terrorists"?

This would have sent a kind of "dead or alive" signal to all victims of the IMF and US neocolonialism in the world and a lot of them would rather fight than to starve in U.S. and European made slums.

Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[Bandit]

11. It would have too obvious

These people think they are so smart they can double think everyone. Who will believe Aristide over Bush* and Powell and Rumsfeld? If they had him killed they would create even more suspicion.

[Lindsay]

12. Is it possible

that they didn't want to make him a martyr?

Dunno why I think so, but it seems like leaving him alive but powerless would be a "better" choice.