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[CYLLON]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3750350.stm
The commander of the UN peacekeepers in Haiti has linked a recent upsurge in violence there to comments made by the US presidential candidate, John Kerry.

Earlier this year Mr Kerry said that as president he would have sent American troops to protect Jean-Bertrand Aristide who was ousted from power in February. ...

Eight months ago the Bush administration withdrew all support for Mr Aristide and made it clear he should leave Haiti. John Kerry called that "short-sighted" and said he would have sent troops to protect Mr Aristide, who was an elected leader.

Now General Heleno, says those comments have offered hope to Aristide's supporters that should Mr Kerry win the US election in November the former Haitian president might be restored to power.

UN commanders on the ground blame John Kerry's stump speech professing support for Haitian strongman Jean-Bertrand Aristide for the continuing violence from Aristide supporters.
When he[Aristide] was deposed in a coup he returned but as a changed man.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3524209.stm
When he returned to take up his presidency in 1994, under the protection of the US, many of those who knew him say he was a different man.

"I don't pretend to know him well enough to understand the change, but I think Aristide was always in a certain sense, an absolutist, in a certain sense, arrogant," says Robert White, a former US ambassador to El Salvador, who later worked as an adviser to the deposed Haitian leader during his years in exile in the US.

Ms Fuller says: "When Aristide came back, he seemed to be more and more focused on staying in power and in particular getting 100% control over things in Haiti."
In fact, after Aristide returned to power, his administration began to look more and more like that of those he once opposed: authoritarian, absolute, with his inner circle enriching themselves while Haiti's poor descended deeper into the worst economy in the hemisphere. In 2000, while Democrats squealed indignantly about rigged elections in Florida simply because some people there could not follow ballot instructions, Aristide delivered a Saddam-like election to Haiti, rigging the results to get 92% of the vote. He used armed thugs to intimidate his political opponents.

So kerry has already cost lives and he is not even in ofice yet.Even Bush could not pull that off.

[Snouter]

Originally Posted by CYLLON

So kerry has already cost lives and he is not even in ofice yet.Even Bush could not pull that off.

Sad but true. In a similar situation, the psychotic mental case, Algore, who tried to steal the election last time gave aid and comfort to Muslim Terrorists with his speech today sponsored by the communist front group, MoveOn.org.