US seeking new Haitian PM

[Judi Lynn]

US seeking new Haitian PM
March 9, 2004 - 10:30PM



US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Washington was trying to find a replacement for Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, as US marines came under fire while patrolling the still volatile Haitian capital.

"We are working hard with the new council of eminent persons that has been created to come up with a new prime minister," Powell said in an interview with the US Fox News Channel.

Powell expressed regret that exiled Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide had "squandered the opportunity that was given to him by the presence of American troops and by the international community that stuck with it for years".

"But this time, I hope we can come out with a better political arrangement," he said.
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/09/1078594368231.html

[whatelseisnew]

1. How about a new council of eminent persons called The Public? (n/t)

[saigon68]

7. Ahmed Chalabi or Hamid Kharzai a/k/a "the Mayor of Kabul"

Either would be appropriate.

They are even Bigger Lap-Dogs than Poodle Blair, the guy who walks around on a leash, held by CHIMPANZEE McSHRUB

[UpInArms]

2. un-f***-ing-believable

this is the absolute arrogance of this mal-administration!

What in the hell is Powell doing looking for a replacement for Haiti's Prime Minister?

So when in the world was he assigned employment manager?

Shouldn't the people of Haiti be doing this?

:nuke:

[PATRICK]

3. No new graduates

from the School of the Americas?

Appoint Rush Limbaugh.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Are you kidding?

He'd enlist in the marines, before going to a country full of black people.

[Frances]

5. I thought democracy

meant you elect your leader

Bushco is incredible--they preach that they are bringing democracy to the world and then in broad daylight they destroy democracy

[dand]

6. all they know how to do is destroy,

they are all war criminals

[underpants]

8. Hate to say this but I think I know where all of this is leading

The close proxiimity to Cuba leads me to think that it would be a great staging and resupply area for an invasion. Gitmo is directly across from Haiti on Cuba's eastern most coast.

Just something for you to think about.

[Voltaire99]

9. Stepinfetchit lecturing Haitians

What's more reprehensible? Powell's use by a pack of old white devils to debase that shattered island, or his lifetime of glad service to them?

[peacetalksforall]

10. No one can deny that this move was planned for a long time....

and these idiots brought out all the old tricks...with the media to broadcast their agenda of uprising, throwing someone out, threat of massacres, paying off the insurgents, moving infrastructure people who work quietly in the background - they've done it again and they've been preparing for months. They smeared him. They cut him off. They strangled him. He wasn't perfect, but what the heck did the guy do compared to all the killing and theiving leaders that we have loved and supported in the past?

The words that come out of their mouths is democracy, democracy and the actions are IMPERIALISM. Who do we think we are?

[daleo]

11. Powell ought to know about squandering

Having squandered the goodwill of the entire world in the period since Sept 11, 2001.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. Is anyone else tired of this useless piece of shit sell out

uncle Tom Powell?

I know I am.

http://www.blackcommentator.com/80/80_cover_haiti.html

[Judi Lynn]

13. Cold War returns to US backyard

Cold War returns to US backyard
Reed Lindsay finds growing disquiet in Latin America over America's role in the fall of Haiti's leader

Reed Lindsay
Sunday March 7, 2004
The Observer

For the second time in less than two years, the Bush administration is fighting accusations that it backed the violent overthrow of a democratically elected government in Latin America.

Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has charged the US with forcing him from power at gunpoint. US Secretary of State Colin Powell dismissed that as 'absurd'. But there is growing international disquiet. As with the unsuccessful US-endorsed coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in April 2002, Washington faces charges that it is reverting to Cold War tactics to dispose of leaders it does not fancy.

Even before Aristide's departure became an alleged kidnapping, some Latin American leaders were warning that the US role in Haiti was ominous. 'The removal of President Aristide in these circumstances sets a dangerous precedent for democratically elected governments anywhere and everywhere,' Jamaican Prime Minister PJ Patterson, the chairman of the 15-nation Caribbean Community - Caricom - said last week. 'We are bound to question whether his resignation was truly voluntary, as it comes after the capture of sections of Haiti by armed insurgents and the failure of the international community to provide the requisite support, despite the appeals of Caricom.'
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After Aristide took office in February 2001, the US played a leading role in forcing hundreds of millions of dollars in international aid to be cut off, while bolstering a minority opposition led by Haiti's tiny elite. In the past three years, the nation's already moribund economy further deteriorated and the government ground to a halt as the opposition refused to participate in elections.
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4874422-102275,00.html

[Just Me]

14. Well, I guess the positive note is: this is an accurate headline!!!

"The US,...." is planting a leader that will tow to the corporate anarchists which rule the US!!! Smirky pointed out Mussolini's observation that fascism is corporatism. Smirky's point further clarified my realization that those who advocate corporations being freed from either the rule of law or government control,...whether consciously or not,...are creating another horrendous fascist rule in a country that holds the greatest potential in the world. Perhaps, that additional clarity will be helpful in my quest to correct misinformed/brainwashed/asleep people.

[Skidmore]

15. Can anyone apply? Is this part of the creating new jobs

agenda they have? Just take over a country and hire a leader? Where can you send your resume?