US Double Game in Haiti

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February 16, 2004-Not quite a year ago, after returning from Haiti, I wrote
for Z-net, "the United States government is playing the same game as in Iraq
- pushing for "regime change" in Haiti. Their strategy includes a massive
disinformation campaign in U.S. media, an embargo on desperately needed
foreign aid to Haiti, and direct support for violent elements, including former
military officers and Duvalierists, who openly seek the overthrow of
President Aristide." Events in Haiti today show how bloody the U.S. game
has become.

Even as Colin Powell insists the U.S. does NOT seek "regime change," the
attempt to oust the legitimate elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide
grows more violent by the day. During the past week, at least 50 people
have been slaughtered, and probably far more, in Gonaives, Haiti's
fourth-largest city - most by those whom Powell and pro-U.S. media call
"rebels." The dead include three patients waiting for treatment in a hospital.

Many of the 14 police killed had their bodies dragged naked through the
street, ears cut off and other body parts mutilated. Gonaives and several
small towns remain in the hands of a brutal gang of thugs, with direct ties to
the U.S.-recognized and Republican-financed "opposition" - the
Convergence and the Group of 184, whose spokesmen are sweat shop
owners and former military officers. This "opposition" seeks to distance
itself from the violence, yet continue to insist that the "uprising" is justified.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security admitted it's concern by
announcing preparations for up to 50,000 fleeing Haitians in Guantanamo -
indicating the U.S. is expecting to see carnage in Haiti on a grand scale.

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