Posted on 07/10/2009 3:58:28 AM PDT by don-o
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Honduran armed forces chief who ousted President Manuel Zelaya said the decision to throw him out of the country was made by "the state" to save lives, because violence would have erupted had he remained.
General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, leader of the joint chiefs of staff, told Reuters it was a difficult decision for him to topple Zelaya on June 28, because the two were friends.
But he said he was following orders from the Supreme Court and Congress, which have accused Zelaya of violating the constitution by trying to lift presidential term limits.
"The outside world sees us as bad guys but inside the country we are the ones who saved democracy. ... The best judge we will have is history," Vasquez Velasquez said in an interview at his office at the joint chiefs headquarters.
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I’d wish the Honduran military generals were running the country and peacefully facilitating the gradual restoration of democratic rule to the Central American nation.
Would you?
Memo this to “meddling” Barry, kkthx.
Well, when you understand what Zelaya was trying to do, it’s hard to disagree with the General.
“I’d wish the Honduran military generals were running the country and peacefully facilitating the gradual restoration of democratic rule to the Central American nation.”
Why? It seems the legitimate Government of Honduras is doing the job correctly as it is. Why would you wish for different?
When you understand what OBAMA is trying to do, you'll see that it's going to be necessary for America to take out the trash just like Honduras did. Will it be America's military OR will Americans get the chance at the voting booth?
Acorn and the other anti-American efforts by the fraud from Kenya may mean WE THE PEOPLE will have to step up.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289526/posts
The Supreme Court and Congress both ordered the military to remove the President for abuse of the constitution and his job. What would you want to do differently? Their system works.
I am on the side of the people who threw him out.
It can’t happen here........but it should...............
Truer words were never spoken....
Si!
He lost his citizenship when he proposed changing presidential term limits. What do you do with an alien who is hostile to the rule of law?
But not in the United States.
The SCOTUS and Congress won’t remove Zero because they’re ummm, they’re umm, puppets of the Zero, or they back him.
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