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thejunipertree) wrote2004-02-24 03:04 pm
thejunipertree) wrote2004-02-24 03:04 pm
oh frig.
In the mad rush which has been going on lately, I completely forgot that my LJ account status was going to go from 'paid' to 'unpaid'.
From their paidaccount page just now:
The most annoying part will likely be pulling out your wallet, finding your credit card, and typing in your information.
No. The annoying part, you dripping assfuck, is that you took away the option to pay by phone. Which was incredibly convenient for those of us without credit cards.
FILTHY BOURGEOIS PIGDOG! I SPIT ON YOUR CREDIT CARDS!
hmm. Now that I've got THAT out of my system, it would also appear that they do not accept checks. Stinkfuckers.
In other news, it would appear that the U.S. has sent troops into Haiti to protect the
WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The United States sent about 50
Marines to Haiti to protect its embassy and other facilities on Monday
and pressed the opposition to accept a power-sharing plan to end an
armed revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
The State Department said Secretary of State Colin Powell
telephoned one opposition leader, Andre Apaid, to press a peace plan
which would involve Washington helping the government and the
opposition choose a new compromise Cabinet.
Aristide has accepted the proposal but the opposition, which wants
HIM out of power but disavows any relation with the armed rebels, did
not respond to U.S. demands to accept the plan by a Monday deadline.
A senior State Department official said the deadline for the
opposition to respond could be extended. He said, "If it takes them a
little longer than we had given them to get a positive response, then
they can have that."
Washington, which invaded the impoverished Caribbean state in 1994
to restore Aristide to power after he was ousted by a coup, has said it
would not accept rebels unseating him by force although it was open to
his negotiated departure.
The U.S. military's Miami-based Southern Command said the team of
Marines, which arrived at Port-au-Prince airport in a Hercules C-130
transport plane, would "conduct security operations for a handful of
U.S. facilities" in the capital.
Asked if the United States ruled out military intervention in
Haiti, a senior State Department official did not answer directly but
said: "We are trying to change the momentum today. So let's see where
we can get to today or in the next 24 hours."
The United States has been reluctant to send troops to quell the
violence and has focused on mediating a settlement. U.S. forces are
stretched in deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Escalating their revolt over the weekend, the rebels overran the
second-largest city and vowed to move on the rest of the country even
though Aristide agreed to accept the U.S. plan allowing the opposition
posts in the Cabinet.
Even if an accord is struck, it would not take into account the
armed groups. But the Bush administration says its strategy is to
hammer out a peace accord between the opposition and Aristide in the hope that
it will defuse the violence.
That would avert either foreign troops having to be sent in to
restore order or a civil war that could spark waves of refugees like
those in the early 1990s when Aristide lost power in a coup.
The United States has so far rejected Aristide's pleas for
reinforcements for his hapless police force, which has repeatedly lost
battles in fighting this month that has effectively cut the country in
two.
Over the weekend, the United States evacuated its non-emergency
staff and family members from the embassy in Port-au-Prince because of
the spreading revolt.
For now there was no plan to evacuate its remaining diplomats, who
are needed to mediate, U.S. officials said.
"I cannot remember the last time we completely got everybody out.
Things can go to hell in a hand basket and we still keep some people
in," one State Department official said. "There's a ladder of
escalation, and we are many steps away from ferrying people out in
helicopters."
From their paidaccount page just now:
The most annoying part will likely be pulling out your wallet, finding your credit card, and typing in your information.
No. The annoying part, you dripping assfuck, is that you took away the option to pay by phone. Which was incredibly convenient for those of us without credit cards.
FILTHY BOURGEOIS PIGDOG! I SPIT ON YOUR CREDIT CARDS!
hmm. Now that I've got THAT out of my system, it would also appear that they do not accept checks. Stinkfuckers.
In other news, it would appear that the U.S. has sent troops into Haiti to protect the
WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The United States sent about 50
Marines to Haiti to protect its embassy and other facilities on Monday
and pressed the opposition to accept a power-sharing plan to end an
armed revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
The State Department said Secretary of State Colin Powell
telephoned one opposition leader, Andre Apaid, to press a peace plan
which would involve Washington helping the government and the
opposition choose a new compromise Cabinet.
Aristide has accepted the proposal but the opposition, which wants
HIM out of power but disavows any relation with the armed rebels, did
not respond to U.S. demands to accept the plan by a Monday deadline.
A senior State Department official said the deadline for the
opposition to respond could be extended. He said, "If it takes them a
little longer than we had given them to get a positive response, then
they can have that."
Washington, which invaded the impoverished Caribbean state in 1994
to restore Aristide to power after he was ousted by a coup, has said it
would not accept rebels unseating him by force although it was open to
his negotiated departure.
The U.S. military's Miami-based Southern Command said the team of
Marines, which arrived at Port-au-Prince airport in a Hercules C-130
transport plane, would "conduct security operations for a handful of
U.S. facilities" in the capital.
Asked if the United States ruled out military intervention in
Haiti, a senior State Department official did not answer directly but
said: "We are trying to change the momentum today. So let's see where
we can get to today or in the next 24 hours."
The United States has been reluctant to send troops to quell the
violence and has focused on mediating a settlement. U.S. forces are
stretched in deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Escalating their revolt over the weekend, the rebels overran the
second-largest city and vowed to move on the rest of the country even
though Aristide agreed to accept the U.S. plan allowing the opposition
posts in the Cabinet.
Even if an accord is struck, it would not take into account the
armed groups. But the Bush administration says its strategy is to
hammer out a peace accord between the opposition and Aristide in the hope that
it will defuse the violence.
That would avert either foreign troops having to be sent in to
restore order or a civil war that could spark waves of refugees like
those in the early 1990s when Aristide lost power in a coup.
The United States has so far rejected Aristide's pleas for
reinforcements for his hapless police force, which has repeatedly lost
battles in fighting this month that has effectively cut the country in
two.
Over the weekend, the United States evacuated its non-emergency
staff and family members from the embassy in Port-au-Prince because of
the spreading revolt.
For now there was no plan to evacuate its remaining diplomats, who
are needed to mediate, U.S. officials said.
"I cannot remember the last time we completely got everybody out.
Things can go to hell in a hand basket and we still keep some people
in," one State Department official said. "There's a ladder of
escalation, and we are many steps away from ferrying people out in
helicopters."
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It's an extremely poor country with no obvious interest to a country such as ours. So, why are we there? That's what I want to know.
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However, being that my religion basically finds its home in that country, I have been following the Haiti situation for quite some time and with some concern for how it is going to eventually turn out.
The country has been in almost constant political turmoil for generations and it doesn't appear to have an end in sight. I'm also curious as to why the U.S. feels the need to step in. We invaded them in 1994 to put a political leader back into power that the country obviously does not want. I don't understand why Washington is so hellfire pressed to be involved with this.
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I don't think we're intervening this time. I think we're just pulling our people out and letting them kill each other. Now that I think about it, that's not such a bad idea. Fuck them. If they want to act like a bunch of fucking savages, we should just park a few ships off the coast to make sure nobody leaves and let them sort it out for themselves. They have nothing we need or want so the hell with them. Sorry, I'm just tired of these little tinpot fucking nations having a revolution every year or two.
Re: My mistake
The article I posted said that we're in the beginning stages of intervening, though. Powell is pressing 'peace plans' at the rebels and they've been making noise about possible military intervention.
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