When Thompson supported Aristide in 1991, he was supporting a democratically elected executive who was displaced by a military coup.
The Aristide of 1991 was not Aristide the dictator of 2004.
Actually, Thompson was much like a Ron Paul supporter in one respect: he was taken in by the rhetoric of a scummy charlatan who claimed to be a man of principle.
Unlike Ron Paul supporters, who continue to make excuses for their favorite traitor, Fred Thompson did not drink the Kool Aid and no longer supported Aristide when he violated the haitian Constitution.
You beat me to it..
I think I figured it out, some posters support Marxist Military Coups.
“That’s changing the subject from the thread topic: i.e. the demonstrated fact that Ron Paul is a lying scumbag.”
He explained this in 2001.
He’s not lying, and he’s not a scumbag.
However, the namecalling - scumbag, traitor, etc.
Aristide was a committed leftist in 1991, as well, btw.
His campaign was marred buy violence of his supporters, he called the US the “Great Satan,” and he urged his supporters to “necklace” his opponents. This was in 1991.
I guess namecalling is easier than researching.
“Actually, Thompson was much like a Ron Paul supporter in one respect: he was taken in by the rhetoric of a scummy charlatan who claimed to be a man of principle.”
On Oct 10th 1991 Thompson filed papers lobbying for Aristide
http://conservativesagainstfred.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/ppm43_thompson-doc2.pdf
2 weeks EARLIER -On Sept 27th - 1991 Aristide endorsed ‘necklacing’
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={E4D5ADDB-07EB-45F4-968E-965ADD70E6E2}
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, February 20, 2004
ONCE AGAIN HAITIAN PRESIDENT JOHN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE
may be ousted by his citizens, who began a new rebellion against his tyrannical rule on February 5.
After Aristide was removed by a military coup in 1991, President Bill Clinton in 1994 sent 20,000 U.S. troops to Haiti to restore to power this former Roman Catholic Priest and advocate for Leftist Liberation Theology who once called Cuban Marxist dictator Fidel Castro his “greatest personal hero.”
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Aristide has also endorsed “necklacing” of the kind widely practiced in South Africa by Winnie Mandela. It consists of seizing a victim, forcing an automobile tire filled with gasoline down over their head and shoulders, and then setting the tire and gasoline on fire.
“What a beautiful tool!… It smells good. And wherever you go, you want to smell it,” Aristide said of the necklacing of his critics on September 27, 1991, as witnessed and reported by Associated Press.