February 29, 2004 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, chosen in Haiti 's first democratic election in 1990, left Port-Au-Prince airport this morning for an undisclosed destination. He was first ousted by a military coup in 1991 when George H. W. Bush was President of the United States . Restored to office by a US intervention in 1994 when the Military regime's campaign of terror and oppression left the country in ruins Aristide was re-elected to a five year term last year. For the second time the country's only democratically elected President has been run out of town by armed thugs led by the remnants of the Army and terrorist death squads while President George W. Bush first stood aloof from the chaos in our hemisphere and then applied the push that gave the poorest nation in our backyard back to the terrorists destroying its fledgling democracy. The Marines have been dispatched to prevent Haitians from fleeing their chaotic home.

It is ironic that the United States is engaged in nation building in Iraq claiming to bring democracy to that distant country. Its Viceroy in Baghdad presides over a government of occupation that has just missed the US imposed deadline to create an interim Constitution for the Mideast 's first US sponsored "democratic" regime. We have backed that effort with an army of occupation a hundred thousand strong.

When violence erupted into rebellion the Bush Administration immediately ruled out any military intervention to restore order in the island nation. Could it be that Haitians are Black, speak French, and have no oil?