They Hate Us For Our Freedom
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Kevin
The freedom, for example, to invade a small country, overthrow its democratically elected government, and install a puppet government that then wages war on its own poor and helpless while we look on and do nothing:
A study in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet suggests that, despite the presence of a Canadian-led United Nations police force and UN peacekeepers, 8,000 people have been killed and 35,000 women and girls raped in Port-au-Prince alone since the ouster of then-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February 2004.
Montreal Haitian groups say the peer-reviewed study by U.S. social workers confirms what the Canadian and Quebec governments have always denied: a massive campaign of repression against Haiti’s poor under the post-Aristide regime of Gerard Latortue, the country’s U.S.-appointed prime minister, from March 2004 to last June.
Haiti Action Montreal, an advocacy group, decried the violence yesterday and what it says is Canada’s role in perpetuating it.
Bush likes to talk a good game about democracy, but, as Haiti proves, it is just talk. Do you really think that the terrorists aren’t pointing at Haiti to demonstrate that the US uses concern for democracy as nothing ore than an excuse to install puppets who are quite happy to keep the locals from interfering with Western interests? And based on the evidence from Haiti, how is anyone supposed to argue otherwise?
Bush has no foreign policy beyond blowing shit up and hoping to intimidate everyone on the planet. If they were serious about the importance of democracy, they never would have overthrown the government of Haiti to begin with, much less let their puppet turn into a kind of junior league Baby Doc. But they aren’t serious; they just need a better sound bite for the home crowd than “safety through thuggery”.
Wow! This is amazing. A supporter of Clinton blaming Bush for the situation in Haiti. Have you no shame?
It’s Canada this, Canada that. UN this and UN that. It’s Bush’s fault. Give me a break.
Comment 9/7/2006
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Pingback 9/7/2006
Isn’t it strange how all these people who hate the U.S. so much are willing to get on rickety, overcrowded fishing boats, liferafts, inner tubes, and anything else that floats and risk their lives to come to the shores of the hated U.S.?
Comment 9/7/2006
With all the help they are getting, compared to the effort they are putting in, the Haitiens have not a word to say. Help yourselves!
Comment 9/29/2006