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ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 11:02 PM Feb 2016

Note on the Clintons and Haiti: Aristide was toppled twice and returned to Haiti twice. Guess what?

He was first toppled in 1991, under Bush I, then returned to Haiti in 1994, under Clinton (Bill). He served again as president from 1994-96.


Jean-Bertrand Aristide meets Bill Clinton in the Oval Office, October 14, 1994.

Aristide was elected president again in 2001, and in 2004 he was again toppled in a coup and forcibly removed to Africa -- under Bush II.

He returned a second time to Haiti in 2011 -- when Hillary was SOS.

The suggestion that the Clintons had anything to do with the removal of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president, is deceptive and misleading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide

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Note on the Clintons and Haiti: Aristide was toppled twice and returned to Haiti twice. Guess what? (Original Post) ucrdem Feb 2016 OP
Operation Restore Democracy: Bill Clinton's 1994 Haiti intervention ucrdem Feb 2016 #1
Kick for Jean-Bertrand ucrdem Feb 2016 #2

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
1. Operation Restore Democracy: Bill Clinton's 1994 Haiti intervention
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 01:13 AM
Feb 2016

the purpose of which was to restore Aristide, who though unpopular with US media, was wildly popular among the poor of Haiti. Naturally there was pushback from conservatives (and continues to be so in this very website), but Bill soldiered on undeterred. From Clinton in Haiti:The 1994 US Invasion of Haiti by Philippe Girard (2004), Palgrave Macmillan via Google Books, p. 29:



link: https://books.google.com/books?id=7e3FAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=clintons+operation+restore+freedom&source=bl&ots=wo3-lx0vXm&sig=YLwbTXhErFqa_oRIsquQzKLkSwA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIjO_HsefKAhVBVSwKHbM-AhIQ6AEIOzAG#v=twopage&q&f=true

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