This just in: Bush's policies are responsible for the state of affairs in Haiti. I just heard that come out of Kerry's advisors mouth.
Those Bush Policies must be some powerful voodoo. They have the ability to travel back in time 200 years.
The Haitians are just simply not capable of governing themselves in a civil manner. Never have been, never will.
Black Politicians and Activist here in America, are currently breakin out the "Race Card", because like Pavlovs Dog, thats what they are conditioned to do. Without any serious attention being paid to the fact, that these people are "Politically Dysfunctional by Choice".

The race card is often played too quickly , but not in this case, my friend. I don't have a political agenda, so I just look at history. We could go into Kosovo , Bosnia, Israel, and Iraq (who didn't even ask for our help) to dispense some of our good ol' fashion kicka**, but the more melanin prevalent in the natives' skin, the less money we spend. By the time we got to Aristide, all we had left was an armed escort to his private plane, despite the prescence of a US ship right off the shore. OK, I will give you that Haiti is poorly managed and probably always will be if left to their own devices. But how, other than race, do you account for the management programs in all our other "rescue" countries? And why is it that Iraq and Israel want us out but they get "the full treatment" while haitians who run to "Mother Liberty" get placed in a crib with barbed wire around the top? Even cubans are allowed to stay if they can make it to shore. What's up with that? They don't even elect their officials, and the lighter skinned commies get national attention every time one of them says they stubbed a toe while immigration was chasing them. Maybe they should change the nickname of that law from "wet foot-dry foot" to "light foot-dark foot". Granted, Aristide does not behave like an elected official but Haiti is still a democratic republic, and last I heard from Mr. Bush, he was saying that he was going to make the world safe for democracy. So is Bush responsible directly? No but neither is the fireman who refuses to go into a burning building responsible for the loss of life inside...he just isn't doing what he said he would do. A sin of omission is still a sin. So how is it supposed to look to those who are looking from the outside and see how he is going overboard in countries who have asked us to leave and who all just happen to have lighter pigmentation while Haiti and Somalia et. al flounder? But we can't help everyone, can we? So how about an important piece of criteria being that the country actually ASKS for our help as Haiti has since 1986.

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