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February 24, 2004
Kerry | Kerry on Bush and Haiti
Senator John Kerry blamed the Bush administration today for helping foster the political instability in Haiti that has given rise to the armed insurgency that now controls nearly half of the country and threatens to overthrow the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

“I think the administration has missed a lot of opportunities, in fact, has exacerbated the situation over the last two years with its cutoff of humanitarian assistance and its attitude towards the Aristide administration,” Mr. Kerry said. “So they sort of created the environment within which the insurgency could grow and take root, and now they’re trying to manage it, I think.”

Senator Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, made his comments during a wide-ranging discussion today with editors and reporters of The New York Times in advance of next Tuesday’s New York presidential primary.

He said that if he were president, he would be pressing Haitian rebels to back off their goal of toppling Mr. Aristide, perhaps by threatening the deployment of an international peacekeeping force.

“I think you’ve got to be real and threatening,” he said. His message to the rebels, he said, would be: “You’re not going to take over, you’re not kicking him out, this democracy is going to be sustained, we’re willing to put in a new government, new prime minister, we’re willing to work with you, but you’re not going to succeed in your goal of exiling” Mr. Aristide. “And unless that’s clear, you can’t necessarily stop it in its tracks.”

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Posted by Richard T at February 24, 2004 06:26 PM | TrackBack
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Another evil dictator like Aristide gets his throne in jeopardy and who is crying like a little baby? None other than John Kerry.

I don’t know all that much about Aristide. Only small things here and there. And Aristide is not an angel. The ‘elections’ process or whatever seems as corrupt as Saddam’s Iraq.

Our American forces have no business handling the affairs in Haiti simply because there’s nothing we can do that would solve anything at this point in time. All we can do, for now, is hope for the best. Or at least for better.

Posted by: Jeff MacMillan at February 24, 2004 06:55 PM

Yeah Jeff, Kerry is a cry baby, but he’s losing ground on just when to cry, and when to suck on the nipple. Yesterday, Bush painted him as the waffler that he is…..first on one side, and then another. Today, kerry says, I’m against gay marriage, but then again I sure as hell don’t wanna do anything to stop it!!! ha ha ha ha Dems are dead in the water… for liberating Iraq, and opposed to it….and thats just one Senator from Massachusetts!! LOL

Posted by: DickD at February 24, 2004 07:58 PM

Another downright dirty Kerry Lie.

A few facts are in order here. It was Clinton (and Kerry) that started this whole mess. Bush is right to NOT get involved.

SENDING 20,000 U.S. TROOPS TO HAITI TO TOPPLE a pro-American government and install in its place Leftist Jean-Bertrand Aristide was among the first acts of the Clinton-Gore Administration.
Among its final acts was to send thugs into the Miami, Florida suburb Little Haiti to intimidate black immigrants from that Caribbean island nation on election day 2000
These Gore goons forced their way into polling places where, in blatant violation of law, they reportedly put up Gore posters next to voting booths and “helped” frightened voters by marking their ballots for Mr. Gore.
Residents of Little Haiti who had Bush signs or buttons were threatened with violence. One reportedly was beaten with a baseball bat.
Virtually none of this intimidation of black Haitian-Americans was reported except by Fox News
vooDoo Clinton politics

After Aristide was removed by a military coup in 1991, President Bill Clinton in 1994 sent 20,000 U.S. troops to Haiti to restore to power this former Roman Catholic Priest turned VooDoo cultmaster and advocate for Leftist Liberation Theology who once called Cuban Marxist dictator Fidel Castro his “greatest personal hero.”
Senator John F. Kerry gets mention in strange and twisted ways.
Haiti today: Bills Blunders emerge in ‘04

Posted by: Fat Guy at February 24, 2004 08:29 PM

I have to say, I think Kerry is going to be roasted before Bush even starts his campaign!! LMAO
Kerry has to be nuts to even say ANYTHING on haiti

Posted by: Fat Guy at February 24, 2004 08:37 PM

Gee, let’s look at what Kerry says.

“I think you’ve got to be real and threatening,”
….and…
‘perhaps by threatening the deployment of an international peacekeeping force.’

And, and in the meantime, we’ll pull out all of our troops from Iraq and re-install Sadam to power because we didn’t find any WMD there.

This guy isn’t playing with a full deck here, and yet he is the man who might be elected our president if the Dems have their way?

Posted by: doug at February 24, 2004 08:57 PM

Not a full deck - how about no deck. the saddest part is the leftwingnuts on the NYT let him get away with this crap unchallenged.

Please don’t forget the costly “Bills Blunder” of spending millions on buying back every weapon in the country.
And that begs the question, Haiti has been under the UN Umbrella since, how did they get all these guns. Another UN failure?

Posted by: Cranial at February 24, 2004 10:46 PM

How is Kerry’s position on Haiti any different than the position of those who wanted to be involved in Vietnam? The problem in both places is that while the opposition may be very bad, the people we are trying to prop up (or that Kerry wants to prop up) are nearly as bad.

Posted by: samuelv at February 25, 2004 09:24 AM

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