{"id":376,"date":"2004-02-29T15:13:36","date_gmt":"2004-02-29T19:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=376"},"modified":"2004-02-29T15:13:36","modified_gmt":"2004-02-29T19:13:36","slug":"aristide-flees-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Aristide flees Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hands-off policy toward Haiti is simply wrong<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Powell denied the Bush administration has had a hands-off policy during the recent crisis, saying it has been actively involved in the negotiations to bring a peaceful solution to the problem.<\/p>\n

Nelson, however, is right. By refusing President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s pleas for international help, the Bush administration has made it clear it is siding with a group of rebels, a point reiterated by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry.<\/p>\n

”This administration has been engaged in very manipulative and wrongful ways,” Kerry said. “They have a theological and an ideological hatred for Aristide. They always have. They approached this so the insurgents were empowered by this administration.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Now that Aristide has fled the country and is seeking asylum, the Bush administration has finally decided to send ‘peacekeepers’ to Haiti<\/a>, apparently to quash any lingering support for the democratically elected Aristide.<\/p>\n

The list of thugs this administration does business with grows longer. But would Haitians have fared better had a Democrat been in the White House<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hands-off policy toward Haiti is simply wrong Powell denied the Bush administration has had a hands-off policy during the recent crisis, saying it has been actively involved in the negotiations to bring a peaceful solution to the problem. Nelson, however, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-64","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}