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To: combat_boots

I only checked out your first link, but it’s a hoax. In the real world, the coup in Honduras was by the “democratically elected” president, who decided that he wanted to be dictator instead of president. His usurpation of power ran afoul of the Honduran Constitution, and disqualified him from the presidency, according to the Constitution. He refused to leave. The Legislature expelled him from the presidency, but he still refused to leave. Finally the Supreme Court ordered the military to enforce the constitution, and physically remove him. The military carried out the court’s order. The Obama administration steadily supported the coup, and condemned Honduras, and her military, for following the law. It’s true that the US Government did support the actual coup, but it constantly supported the would-be dictator, and always opposed the successor government, claiming that the people who followed the law were engaging in a coup.


14 posted on 09/24/2016 9:27:00 PM PDT by Keb
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To: Keb

I remember the Honduran episode. It was one of the first demonstrations of a remarkable and juvenile behavior from the administration. It was like 12-year old kids were running the government. Today? No one brings up the episode at all. It’s like they came to realize how screwed up of a position they’d taken.


17 posted on 09/24/2016 9:53:20 PM PDT by pepsionice
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