Maxine Waters is giving an AMAZING argument re: Haiti

[Coexist]

She has discussed the entire recent political history about Haiti - and gave the election results. She totally dissed Condi re: her promise that there would be voting access.

Rep. Waters gave an account of Haiti's poor, and how they have been taken advantage by the elite, with the support of the U.S. Government.

[vanboggie]

1. They are coaching us

on our own stolen elections. Go Cynthia McKinney and Maxine Waters!!

[Coexist]

3. aren't they amazing.

Discussing racism right here at home now. Way to go!

[demosincebirth]

2. Where?? Link??

[Coexist]

4. Sorry - C-Span right now.

http://www.c-span.org/

[wakeme2008]

5. Of all the crazy things * has done

I still do not understand what and why he did in Haiti. No oil there.

[Coexist]

7. Cheap labor, though.

Wal-Mart's gotta have $4 t-shirts.

[bullimiami]

8. exactly. sweat shops, virtual slavery and close to the us mainland.

much like abramhoff and the mariana islands.
dirty, dirty.

[killbotfactory]

6. Our relationship with Haiti has been quite disgusting...

to say the least.

"Dear me, think of it, Niggers speaking French" - Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan

I guess since they are the only nation to have a successful slave revolt, it would be in our nature to try and undermine them.

[catmother]

9. my husband and i went to haiti in 1971 to get his divorce. we

could not believe the poverty and the shacks that people lived in. and despite the conditions everyone was so nice and pleasant.

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10. I love her! "(Condi) then went shopping for Ferragamo shoes"

She is discussing the important issue of Katrina survivors that want to go home, but there is too much uncertainty about how they will be treated.

She has introduced legislation that will require the EPA to take tests, and publish the results (re: environmental soundness - "toxic sludge")

[ClosetClarkie]

11. This is great but....

I just read she voted to support Bush's push for war in Iran.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2113015

Being the leader of the Out of Iraq caucus, I thought we could count on her to stop future wars.

[Coexist]

12. Well, sending it to the UN Security Council is hardly a vote for war

and the the world body was not in favor or the war with Iraq, but it voted to agree to further inspections. The report issued by the IAEI was not a case for war, by any standards. We went to war with Iraq NOT WITH the U.N.s blessing, but in spite of not having it (because we felt we were right and they were too soft).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Security_Council_Resolution_1441
<snip>
By mid-March, Resolution 1441 had become crucial in the Iraq disarmament crisis. Under furious debate was whether a further Security Council resolution (the so-called "second resolution") was necessary to authorize war, or whether 1441 and preceding resolutions sufficed to legitimize military enforcement of the UN's disarmament aims. UK prime minister Tony Blair had for several weeks been under significant domestic pressure to obtain the "second resolution", and he led efforts for a unanimous resolution authorizing force. Of the permanent, veto-holding members of the Security Council, France, Russia, and the People's Republic of China wished the inspection period to be extended, and for no military action to go ahead without a further UN resolution. On the other hand, the USA and Britain, while admitting that such a resolution was diplomatically desirable, insisted that Iraq had now been given enough time (noting also the time since the first disarmament resolutions of 1991) to disarm or provide evidence thereof, and that war was legitimized by 1441 and previous UN resolutions. Non-permanent Security Council member Spain declared itself with the USA and Britain. Nevertheless, this position taken by the Bush administration and its supporters, has been and still is being disputed by numerous legal experts. According to most members of the Security Council, it is up to the council itself, and not individual members, to determine how the body's resolutions are to be enforced.<1><2><3> On March 10, French president Jacques Chirac declared that France would veto any resolution which would automatically lead to war. This caused open displays of dismay by the US and British governments. The drive by Britain for unanimity and a "second resolution" was effectively abandoned at that point.
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On the 17th, speeches by Bush and UK foreign secretary Jack Straw explicitly declared the period of diplomacy to be over, and that no further authorization from the UN would be sought before an invasion of Iraq (see 2003 invasion of Iraq).


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3661134.stm
Iraq war illegal, says Annan


The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.

[Coexist]

13. re: Iran, right now, "its about time we say, No More War, Mr. Bush"

I don't think she supports it.

[vanboggie]

16. War is a racket

I love her putting all this and Rummy's 70s war plan into the congressional record.

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17. I know. "War means huge profits, yes, but what does it profit the nation?"

I like that.

[dogday]

14. Cynthia McKinney is on live C-SPAN1

she is giving em hell..... They always try to sanction her....

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15. they just told her to REFRAIN from making personal references to the VP

She was reading from an article.

[sasha031]

18. she is fantastic

talking about war profiteers.

[vanboggie]

19. Puke now ridiculing her

Tom Price of GA. These are the times I yell at and want to swat my TV.