The Fire This Time in Haiti was US-Fueled

[seemslikeadream]

Published on Monday, March 1, 2004 by the Taipei Times / Taiwan
The Fire This Time in Haiti was US-Fueled
The Bush Administration Appears to have Succeeded in its Long-Time Goal of Toppling Aristide Through Years of Blocking International Aid to his Impoverished Nation

by Jeffrey Sachs

Haiti, once again, is ablaze. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is widely blamed, and he may be toppled soon. Almost nobody, however, understands that today's chaos was made in Washington -- deliberately, cynically and steadfastly. History will bear this out. In the meantime, political, social, and economic chaos will deepen, and Haiti's impoverished people will suffer.

The Bush administration has been pursuing policies likely to topple Aristide since 2001. The hatred began when Aristide, then a parish priest and democracy campaigner against Haiti's ruthless Duvalier dictatorship, preached liberation theology in the 1980s. Aristide's attacks led US conservatives to brand him as the next Fidel Castro.?

They floated stories that Aristide was mentally deranged. Conservative disdain multiplied several-fold when then-president Bill Clinton took up Aristide's cause after he was blocked from electoral victory in 1991 by a military coup. Clinton put Aristide into power in 1994, and conservatives mocked Clinton for wasting America's efforts on "nation building" in Haiti. This is the same right wing that has squandered US$160 billion on a far more violent and dubious effort at "nation building" in Iraq.?

Attacks on Aristide began as soon as the Bush administration assumed office. I visited Aristide in Port-au-Prince in early 2001. He impressed me as intelligent and intent on good relations with Haiti's private sector and the US. No firebrand, he sought advice on how to reform his economy and explained his realistic and prescient concerns that the American right would try to wreck his presidency.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0301-10.htm

[StClone]

1. Why

Why would BushCo do it?

If they want control wealth in the U.S. tax cuts and relaxing control of Corporate buddies is one thing. But, why waste time monkeying with a no-resource 3rd world nothing? Just as a distraction? Long term maniacal control of our hemisphere around and abutting Cuba?

They got another mess on their hands if they did do this and there goes our military off for another 'short duration.'

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. The end justifies the means with this bunch........

whatever the hell the end is. Who really knows what great scheme they have. Hell, they only have to dislike you to make you a target.