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Haiti...


In the 1700's what is now Haiti was called the "Jewel of the
Caribbean ," and supplied about 40% of the world's sugar.

In 1791 the government of France passed legislation to
phase out slavery in its Caribbean colonies and grant the former
Negro slaves French citizenship. Rather than becoming citizens,
Haiti 's Negro population mass murdered all whites and Mulattoes who
could not flee the Island in time. In 1804 only full blooded Negros
remained and Haiti became the first Negro ruled nation in the
Western Hemisphere . The Haitian revolution dominated America 's
debate over slavery. While the United States agreed that slavery
should be ended, southerners and a large percentage of northerners
universally opposed having a large population of freed slaves
living in their midst. The Haitian "Revolution" was fresh in every one's mind.

Fast forward to 1915, the "Jewel of the Caribbean " is
now a desolate cesspool that is exporting almost no sugar. The
United States decides to "take up the white man's burden" and send
the U.S. Marine Corps to rebuild Haiti 's infrastructure and feed
its starving population.

The United States gave huge amounts of money to Haiti
and over saw the building of 1,000 miles of road, telephone lines,
modernized its port, and helped Haiti to start exporting sugar once
again. The U.S. also put an end to the thousands of bandits along
Haiti 's border with the Dominican Republic . The U.S. left in 1934
at the request of the then stabilized and very ungrateful Haitian government.

Haiti immediately sank straight back into total
desolation strife. In 1973 the United States once again began
playing a huge role in Haiti , giving the Island huge sums of money
in handouts each year.

In 1994 the Clinton administration once again sent the
U.S. military to Haiti to rebuild the Island 's infrastructure. A
friend of mine was one of the military sent there. He said they
needed bulldozers to remove the feces from the middle of the
streets so they could put some form of sanitary conditions in
place. The people would run out of their homes, do their business
in the street and go back to their homes.

In 1995 the Peace Corps went to Haiti in large numbers
to train the Haitians in job skills. The U.S. government spent
almost one billion dollars providing food and job training to the
Haitians between 1995 and 1999.

So when Barack Hussein Obama says that Haiti has our
"full, unwavering support," they have already had our full support
since 1915 and absolutely nothing has been accomplished by it.

Thought you'd like to know these little facts. Class dismissed!