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BranFlan Says:

30 July 2010 at 8:47 am.

We are not in Haiti to overthrow their government, we are there to provide assistance to their people.

The USA is not the only country there either.

Plus we can just look at the Middle East and see the mess we make when we go in with the intentions of fucking up and overthrowing someone else’s government.

Sweet Heart Says:

2 August 2010 at 4:30 pm.

Because Haitian human beings have just as much value as Chilean human beings.
I really don’t give a cr*p about their government. Be thankful of where you were born because other people aren’t so lucky.

Powdered Toast Man Says:

7 August 2010 at 8:40 pm.

Bullshite. You really need to study US policy in Latin America before spouting such drivel. An occupied Haiti has a strategic importance in Washington’s “rollback” plans for Latin America. The goal is the overthrow of the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, control of Venezuela’s abundant oil reserves and sabotage of the growing regional cooperation that has given millions their first taste of an economic and social justice long denied by US-sponsored regimes.
The first rollback success came last year with the coup against President Jose Manuel Zelaya in Honduras who also dared advocate a minimum wage and that the rich pay tax. Obama’s secret support for the illegal regime carries a clear warning to vulnerable governments in central America. Last October, the regime in Colombia, long bankrolled by Washington and supported by death squads, handed the US seven military bases to, according to US air force documents, “combat anti-US governments in the region”.
Media propaganda has laid the ground for what may well be Obama’s next war, and it is happening outside of the USA as well as inside. On 14 December, researchers at the University of West England published first findings of a ten-year study of the BBC’s reporting of Venezuela. Of 304 BBC reports, only three mentioned any of the historic reforms of the Chavez government, while the majority denigrated Chavez’s extraordinary democratic record, at one point comparing him to ******.
Such distortion and its attendant servitude to western power are rife across the Anglo-American corporate media. People who struggle for a better life, or for life itself, from Venezuela to Honduras to Haiti, deserve our support-not to be held in perennial destitution at the hands of the USA.

For the people of Haiti the current implications are clear, if grotesque. With US troops in control of their country, Obama has appointed George W. Bush to the “relief effort”: a parody surely lifted from Graham Greene’s The Comedians, set in Papa Doc’s Haiti. As president, Bush’s relief effort following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 amounted to an ethnic cleansing of many of New Orleans’ black population. In 2004, he ordered the kidnapping of the democratically-elected prime minister of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and exiled him in Africa. The popular Aristide had had the temerity to legislate modest reforms, such as a minimum wage for those who toil in Haiti’s sweatshops for US corporations such as Disney. And the criminal actions of the USA in Haiti go unpunished, year after year. The US controls Haiti’s sugar, bauxite and sisal. Rice-growing was replaced by imported American rice, driving people into the cities and towns and jerry-built housing. Years after year, Haiti was invaded by US marines, infamous for atrocities that have been their specialty from the Philippines to Afghanistan.

And even when confronted with the truth as I have described it above, most US citizens will trot out their usual mantra “The USA is the greatest country the world has ever seen, we give more aid than anyone etc etc” and go back to their stupidly large SUV’s and Super Sized burger meals.