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One Woman’s Lament for Haiti

by Teresa Simon-Noble Haiti brings back the for
Haiti brings back the for gotten art of grieving as its mountains burn, its democracy is trampled by the jackbooted march of an ousted police chief who is supported and financed in the armed take over of the tiny nation by the Bush coup machinery bent on gaining corporate power and control of the impoverished nation nestled atop the Caribbean topography, criminally ousting its democratically elected leader.
Haiti —another case of Bush chutzpah!

Another case of financing and arming criminal thugs in or der to get what the Bushes want—a pattern established by Geor ge Herbert Walker Bush during his Iran-Contra out of the loop story—in which the end justifies the means, or the Bush I don’t give a hoot about the means to get there as long as I get there. Nothing new with this same, tired, old Bush story.

Aristide, an ex-priest who gave education and health care f or Haitians top pri or ity status as staple benefits of his presidency to Haiti’s people, is told by the Bush coup machinery, through the voices of U.S. Marines present at the scene and those of insurgents better known as criminals with an ax to grind, that he better leave Haiti now or he will be killed along with many of the constituents who supp or t him.

Sensing perhaps the presence of the Ton ton Macute alongside the Bush coup machinery, Aristide cries out f or international help in stabilizing his country—but the international community at the United Nations perhaps by now acclimated with the Bush coup machinery modus operandi is slow to respond and his cries f or help fall flat on deaf ears; the silence of their response is shockingly stunning.

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