US says it will stay in Haiti for long term

[TriWooOx]

Quote:Despite criticism for the US military presence in quake-stricken Haiti, Washington says it has a long-term plan to stay in the country.

"We are there for the long term, this is not something that will be resolved quickly and easily," US Ambassador to the UN Alejandro Wolff said on Thursday.

Just three days after a magnitude 7 earthquake jolted Haiti on January 12, the United States began to send military forces to the impoverished Caribbean nation.

The head of US Southern Command General Douglas Fraser said on Thursday that nearly 20,000 US troops are due to operate, both on land and offshore, by Sunday.

Currently over 2,676 US troops are operating on the ground in Haiti, Fraser said, adding the number is going to swell to 4,600 by the weekend and that another 10,445 are currently afloat aboard vessels offshore.

More than 4,000 other soldiers and Marines also left North Carolina late Wednesday.

This is while leading international aid organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres, blasted the US for putting the delivery of soldiers before medical supplies.

The presence of the US military, which has taken over command of the distribution of humanitarian aid, has raised the ire of some other countries including France, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Paris demanded the United Nations investigate and clarify the dominant US role in Haiti.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said Haiti seeks "humanitarian aid, not troops."

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez accused the US of seeking to occupy the country. "The United States government is using a humanitarian tragedy to militarily occupy Haiti. I read somewhere that they even occupied the [presidential] palace."

Washington, in the past, has been accused of interfering in Haitian internal affairs on many occasions. The US military played a role in the departure of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide before his second term was over in early 2004. Aristide described his departure as kidnapping.

Haiti was occupied by US Marines for nearly 20 years from 1915 to 1934. Former US President Bill Clinton sent troops to Haiti in 1994.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116...=351020706

[Weyland]

Shit this is probably the best for the Haitian people, fuck maybe they wont have to eat any more of those fucking mud cookies they were eating.

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yeah, now they can eat lead instead - maybe with yummy DU sprinkles ?

[EvilMaster]

What better place to build a base then right between Venezuela and Cuba. Not to mention, to have one sitting on top of the sea of oil that resides under Haiti. Talk about an obvious situation.

[icosaface]

You got that right EvilMaster!

[rsol]

easier than accusing them of having WMDs

[Weyland]

Regardless I think if you would ask any Haitian in Haiti they don't give a shit they need HELP pronto. And if they had some petroleum we would have been there already.