{"id":661,"date":"2004-03-01T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2004-03-01T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T16:13:00","slug":"661","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>THE BLOODY HISTORY OF HAITI<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For those, who like Kerry and Edwards, argue that Haiti&#8217;s latest outburst of anarchic, political violence began with George W. Bush, I recommend they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0761802290\/qid=1078157368\/sr=1-2\/ref=sr_1_2\/103-5779907-4359818?v=glance&#038;s=books\">read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tristero.blogspot.com\/2004_02_29_tristero_archive.html#107816736674523883\">Tristero <\/a>has a link to a description of Aristide&#8217;s removal from power by American troops.  <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE II.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;cid=589&#038;u=\/ap\/20040301\/ap_on_re_la_am_ca\/us_haiti_18&#038;printer=1\">denies removing Aristide<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>ZENPUNDIT ANALYSIS:<\/p>\n<p>If Aristide had stayed there would have been a bloody street battle during which he&#8217;d have been killed or he would have fled leaving his followers to be massacred afterwards. He&#8217;s a complete nut and a thug. His opponents are thugs, drug dealers and fascists.  Haiti is a good candidate for a revival of UN trusteeship on a longer term version of the East Timor model. <\/p>\n<p>ECONOMIST.COM ANALYSIS:<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/agenda\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2474164\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT POSITION ON HAITI:<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/ps\/2004\/29386.htm\">State Department.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BLOODY HISTORY OF HAITI For those, who like Kerry and Edwards, argue that Haiti&#8217;s latest outburst of anarchic, political violence began with George W. Bush, I recommend they read this. UPDATE: Tristero has a link to a description of Aristide&#8217;s removal from power by American troops. UPDATE II. Pentagon denies removing Aristide. ZENPUNDIT ANALYSIS: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}