T&T: Manning buys into the Aristide-CBC nonsense

PRIME MINISTER Patrick Manning said yesterday that Caricom is demanding to know the truth with respect to the departure of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office on Sunday.

The Caricom query comes in the wake of a claim by the former president of TransAfrica, a group that monitors United States policy towards Africa and the Caribbean, that Aristide had been forced out by American forces now in Haiti.

Who listens to a leftist nut like Randall Robinson? It seems Manning and the CBC does. The CBC is asking GWB to prove a negative. Think!

Black lawmakers said the White House must prove that Aristide was not kidnapped.
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They demanded conclusive evidence that the Haitian leader — whose 2000 election victory was internationally condemned as fraudulent — was not forced out at gunpoint.

“What makes this not a coup?” Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) asked at the United Nations after meetings with Secretary General Kofi Annan and U.S. Ambassador John D. Negroponte.

Rep. Major Owens (D-N.Y.) added: “We are very troubled that this [Aristide’s ouster] was a terrorist takeover.”

CBC criticism of the exiled leader was muted, despite long-standing international concern about his regime’s engaging in fraud, thug rule and the repression of opponents

This report is for PM Manning and the CBC:

    The ousted Haitian president arrived in Bangui, the remote capital of the Central African Republic, aboard a U.S.-provided flight from Antigua yesterday after an overnight journey and was whisked to the presidential palace.

    "Aristide ... is a free man," CAR Foreign Minister Charles Wenezoui, who greeted the ousted leader upon his arrival, told the Associated Press. "The heavy security measures around the presidential palace are for his own security."

Pity the U.S. military didn't take video to protect themselves while they were protecting Aristide. Word to GWB: offer Aristide a return flight to Haiti; have the U.S. Marines escort him to the presidential palace and leave him there. No military protection. I'm sure this can be coordinated with the president of Bangui