I’m watching Anderson Cooper on CNN, and he is currently conducting a live telephone interview with Jean Bertrand Aristide, who is speaking from the Central African Republic. Aristide says that he was overthrown by the United States, not rebels. He claims that he was kidnapped, flown out of Haiti, and left in Africa. Although Colin Powell said earlier that there was no truth to the kidnapping rumor, but the former president has said in no uncertain terms that he was taken against his will.
Note that Aristide, while a terrible president, was democratically-elected in 2000. It is perhaps justifiable to violate the sovereignty of Iraq, given that Hussein was a dictator, but it is never justifiable to violate the sovereignty of a democrataic nation.
I have a difficult time believing that the Bush administration could be so stupid as to actually do something like this. I know that I’ll be following this story very closely.