FYI to PRR Readers...This from the Wall Street Journal:
After Clinton backed Aristide, key Democrats went into business with the Haitian.
By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY
In October 1994, President Bill Clinton used the U.S. military to force Haiti to take back former President Jean Bertrand Aristide, an intolerant populist who had been deposed in a coup three years earlier. The Haitian people didn’t fare well under the decade of Aristide tyranny and corruption following that U.S. intervention. But key Democrats, who secured contracts with the Haitian government, did.
This sad chapter in U.S. foreign policy is a reminder of the immortal words of the French statesman Charles Talleyrand: “Countries don’t have friends, they have interests.” The Clinton administration had interests in Haiti. And that fact is worth recalling as President Barack Obama, defying all logic, insists that Castro-ally Manuel Zelaya be restored to the presidency in Honduras.
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The definition of insanity: Keep doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. The country did, afterall, elect a former crack head. Clinton was a sex addict. What next? A sex addicted crack head gambler bi-sexual porn star with child molestation tendencies who will want to write a bill making everything legal except Christianity and will require all men to wear pink.
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