Reply #12: On what basis did the president authorize Powell to pressure Aristide?

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What crimes did Aristide commit to lose his office? Didn't he leave because we said we wouldn't guarantee his safety? Clinton did, and backed it up by our forces. Bush watched him fall and did nothing but pressure him to leave when he was under assault. Why didn't we send forces to support his elected presidency?

Why did we refuse to defend democracy there? Especially one that our country had expended money and military to effect in the first place.

This was one more reversal of the Clinton legacy as Bush, through his negligence and indifference, let the work of the nation and the international community fall by the wayside and fester into a crisis and an emergency that he could exploit to the will of some hack in his mindless cabal.

This is another overthrow of a soverign nation under the Bush doctrine of world dominance. The Aristide government shouldn't be forced by this Bush league to share power with terrorist rebels.