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House Members Blast Administration For Haiti Policies
Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega was grilled by Congressional Democrats yesterday for the Bush administration's handling of the crisis in Haiti at a hearing of the House International Relations subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. We play excerpts of the hearing.
Congressional Democrats attacked the Bush administration's handling of the crisis in Haiti yesterday and questioned whether the United States overthrew the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega was the target of the grilling yesterday at a hearing of House International Relations subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. This came as Aristide and his wife Mildred made another round of phone calls to congressmembers and their friends--they continue to say that they were kidnapped and that Aristide was overthrown in a coup d'etat facilitated by the US.
The Central African Republic yesterday had strong words for former Haiti President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, painting the exiled leader as an ungrateful guest who likely would be dead were it not for its hospitality and the kindness of its allies.
Government spokesman Parfait M'bay told the Agence-France Presse ''[Aristide] must be grateful...Because if he had not asked the United States and France to help him, president Aristide would be dead by now."
Donald Payne (D-NJ) questioning Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noreiga.
Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) questioning Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noreiga.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) questioning Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noreiga.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) questioning Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noreiga.
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/04/1554222
Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega was the target of the grilling yesterday at a hearing of House International Relations subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. This came as Aristide and his wife Mildred made another round of phone calls to congressmembers and their friends--they continue to say that they were kidnapped and that Aristide was overthrown in a coup d'etat facilitated by the US.
The Central African Republic yesterday had strong words for former Haiti President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, painting the exiled leader as an ungrateful guest who likely would be dead were it not for its hospitality and the kindness of its allies.
Government spokesman Parfait M'bay told the Agence-France Presse ''[Aristide] must be grateful...Because if he had not asked the United States and France to help him, president Aristide would be dead by now."
Donald Payne (D-NJ) questioning Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noreiga.
Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) questioning Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noreiga.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) questioning Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noreiga.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) questioning Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noreiga.
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/04/1554222
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Dear all,
Yesterday there was a congressional hearing (International Relations Subcommittee) on Haiti. The reason why I am wrting to you is that there was hardly any news coverage of this and there was a lot that came out of it. Roger Noriega came under serious fire from many of the congressional black caucus members, and at one critical point, I believe while questioned by Congresswoman Waters, he actually admitted in a very weird exchange that the US had indeed made Aristide sign his resignation in order to get him out of the country safely. It is not "we kidnapped him", but it is "well, if you want up to get you out so you can prevent the bloodshed you must sign right here, if not you're on your own and what ever happens like in thousands dead is on your shoulders" type of thing. I believe the key word here is coersed. There was much more that went on than this, but i felt at least that part of the questioning needs to be put out there. I will be trying to get the transcrips and you will hopefully all help disemminate it.
Until then.
Solidaridad,
Adrian
Yesterday there was a congressional hearing (International Relations Subcommittee) on Haiti. The reason why I am wrting to you is that there was hardly any news coverage of this and there was a lot that came out of it. Roger Noriega came under serious fire from many of the congressional black caucus members, and at one critical point, I believe while questioned by Congresswoman Waters, he actually admitted in a very weird exchange that the US had indeed made Aristide sign his resignation in order to get him out of the country safely. It is not "we kidnapped him", but it is "well, if you want up to get you out so you can prevent the bloodshed you must sign right here, if not you're on your own and what ever happens like in thousands dead is on your shoulders" type of thing. I believe the key word here is coersed. There was much more that went on than this, but i felt at least that part of the questioning needs to be put out there. I will be trying to get the transcrips and you will hopefully all help disemminate it.
Until then.
Solidaridad,
Adrian
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