tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post4565732391728207476..comments2023-11-16T03:57:05.158-05:00Comments on The Cuban Triangle: USAID funding confirmedPhil Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06724525896667349935noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-6875565855563399002007-06-20T15:20:00.000-04:002007-06-20T15:20:00.000-04:00Forgive me for not seeing the neatest of comparisi...Forgive me for not seeing the neatest of comparisions with aid to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, one with a precarious hold on democracy and one where the US was involved in nation building vs. US aid to a handful dissidents in Cuba and Miami for the purposes of regime change.leftsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00676827005815770066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-84022341348078090612007-06-20T12:19:00.000-04:002007-06-20T12:19:00.000-04:00Fiscal accountability is all well and good, and th...Fiscal accountability is all well and good, and the AID Cuba budget may very well have been a bit bloated. However, there's more than a bit of hypocrisy when the same left-wing Democrats who showered the Aristide-Lavalas thugogracy with billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars target a comparatively insignificant budget item because they don't like the grantees' ideology. Where are the GAO audits on U.S. aid to Aristide/Lavalas? How much of that money ended up in Charlie Rangel's district?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-6911074863198990242007-06-20T12:12:00.000-04:002007-06-20T12:12:00.000-04:00Clinton only acted after frantic lobbying by the A...Clinton only acted after frantic lobbying by the African American community. It was one of his few bright spots... I was talking about more recent history and the end result of US involvement, which was to choke the government into weakness. <BR/><BR/>The truth about the "billions" is that most was spent on administration, support of the U.S. Army, the rebuilding of the Haitian Police Force and Judiciary and the building of some infrastructure and roads. The money the Hatians actually controlled was used to pay back some outstanding loans to the IDB. Very little, if any, made it to the government or people. <BR/><BR/>What exactly are you implying sir? That Aristide has it stashed away with him living the high life in Africa?? I have read no such reports.leftsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00676827005815770066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-2477132264702448172007-06-20T10:05:00.000-04:002007-06-20T10:05:00.000-04:00That the U.S. propped up Aristide is "a new one"? ...That the U.S. propped up Aristide is "a new one"? Only to a dolt. The Clintonistas INVADED Haiti to restore Aristide to power and arranged for billions to sustain his regime. And, yes, where are those billions today?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-32259955086256363522007-06-19T19:23:00.000-04:002007-06-19T19:23:00.000-04:00Hmmm... the US propped up Aristide? That is a new ...Hmmm... the US propped up Aristide? That is a new one. Every account I have heard has the US cutting off aid when the democratic government of Aristide <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/international/americas/29haiti.html?ei=5089&en=803d683287507b6f&ex=1296190800&pagewanted=print" REL="nofollow">needed</A> it most?<BR/><BR/>"This is a case where the United States turned off the tap," said Jeffrey Sachs, an economist at Columbia University. "I believe they did that deliberately to bring down Aristide."leftsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00676827005815770066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851163370258594999.post-67053849645113872692007-06-19T18:15:00.000-04:002007-06-19T18:15:00.000-04:00~10 mil a year sounds about right. Now, about thos...~10 mil a year sounds about right. <BR/>Now, about those billions that went to prop up Aristide...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com