Oh Goody! Another war! Thanks Bush, I was getting so bored with Iraq

[TheBigDemo]

Leave it to Bush to start another war. This time in Haiti. US Troops just landed there.

Have you forgotten about the bad economy and the Iraqi war yet. Great diversion tactic, hey?

[cavebat2000]

1. i dont mean any offense

But I dont think he is starting another war. I am very glad we have a presence in Haiti. We should have been tehre long ago.

[lefty_mcduff]

2. Yeah.

Got to protect US corporate interests in that huge free-trade zone in Haiti. Who gives a flying fuck about the dirt-poor farmers whose land is being stolen and bulldozed. Who gives a shit about democracy when Nike, Levi Strauss and The Gap need more on the bottom line and access to poverty level workforces.


More info

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/458.html

[Minstrel Boy]

3. "We should have been there long ago."

You were.

1891
Troops
A worker revolt on US-claimed Navassa Island defeated.

1914-34
Troops, bombing
19-year Marine occupation after revolts.

1957-1991
"During the Duvalier family dictatorship -- Francois "Papa Doc",
1957-71, followed by Jean-Claude "Baby Doc", 1971-86, both
anointed President for Life by papa -- the United States trained
and armed Haiti's counter-insurgency forces, although most
American military aid to the country was covertly channeled
through Israel, thus sparing Washington embarrassing questions
about supporting brutal governments. After Jean-Claude was forced
into exile in February 1986, fleeing to France aboard a US Air
Force jet, Washington resumed open assistance. And while Haiti's
wretched rabble were celebrating the end of three decades of
Duvalierism, the United States was occupied in preserving it under
new names.

...

"From the mid-1980s until at least the 1991 coup, key members of
Haiti's military and political leadership were on the CIA's
payroll. These payments were defended by Washington officials and
a congressman on the House Intelligence Committee as being a
normal and necessary part of gathering intelligence in a foreign
country. This argument, which has often been used to defend
CIA bribery, ignores the simple reality (illustrated repeatedly in
this book) that payments bring more than information, they bring
influence and control; and when one looks at the anti-democratic
and cruelty levels of the Haitian military during its period of
being bribees, one has to wonder what the CIA's influence was."
From William Blum's Killing Hope, http://members.aol.com/bblum6/haiti2.htm

1994-96
Troops, naval
Blockade against military government; troops restore President Aristide to office three years after coup.

[tobius]

4. bush,the UN and france- out to divert us from iraq.

The contingent totaled fewer than 100 Marines and more are to arrive today. They were the vanguard of a multinational force that the U.N. Security Council approved late Sunday night. France said it would send troops today.................................................A French military spokesman in Guadeloupe said the contingent would consist of 200 soldiers from the French Caribbean territory of Martinique. http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1025020&t=Nation+%2F+World&c=26,1025020

President Bill Clinton sent 20,000 troops to restore Aristide to power but insisted he respect a constitutional term limit and step down in 1995.