Sunday, March 07, 2004
Rep. Charlie Explains It All to You...
0 commentsRangel's Charges:
*This Was a U.S.-French-sanctioned Coup in Haiti.
*U.S. Envoy Marino Insisted Aristide Sign His Resignation before Being Taken from His Presidential Residence, in Order to Avoid the Legal Definintion of a "Coup".
*Secretary of State Colin Powell Flipped on His Statements of Aristide's Legitimacy as Duly Elected President.
*UN Worries That Other Countries Fear They Are Next to Be "Liberated" If They Cross the U.S.
Kudos to our local New York City ABC-TV affiliate, WABC Channel 7, for today's excellent episode of Gil Noble's Like It Is series.
7Online.com: Like It Is
Noble aired an interview conducted this past Wednesday with Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) on the issue of Haiti. This interview was conducted just before Rangel left for the House hearing on this matter, with testimony from Powell and his aide, Roger Noriega.
[Unfortunately, Like It Is does not provide transcripts, so I ask that you join me in writing to the show via the link above and ask that transcripts of this nationally important interview be provided.]
As a recipient of one of Jean Bertrand-Aristide's frantic calls from the Central African Republic after his forced removal from office, and as ranking Democratic member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, Rangel has been in the center of the firestorm that's surrounded the Haitian crisis this week.
Rangel charged in this interview that this basically was a co-operative U.S.-French plot to stage a coup to remove Aristide.
Just as I have noted below in an earlier post, Rangel reaffirmed that there have been no specifics forthcoming from the Bush administration as to the problems Aristide supposedly had been creating.
Rangel says there have been vague statements about Aristide-led violence. He noted, however, that there has been a strictly enforced arms embargo against Aristide; that Aristide had dismantled the army, which makes it very difficult to assume dictatorial powers; also, Rangel pointed out that the pictures of the rebels show them to be particularly well armed and wearing new U.S. military fatigues.
Non-administration Republicans have also argued, Rangel said, that Aristide had a large drug operation going. If there is any truth to this, he pointed out, this operation is now squarely in the hands of the convicted murderers we backed, fully under U.S. supervision. In essence, the U.S. is now among the biggest druglords in the Western Hemisphere.
As I've stated earlier, this is all smelling to high heaven.
Countries around the world used to respect us as a nation.
Today, countries around the world only fear us.
This is Bush "Leadership."
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