President Aristide of Haiti has learned to play the game well. Save his backside and he squeals about it.
When asked if he left Haiti (search) on his own, Aristide quickly answered: "No. I was forced to leave.
"They were telling me that if I don't leave they would start shooting, and be killing in a matter of time," Aristide said during the brief interview via speaker phone. He spoke with a thick Haitian accent, his voice obscured at times by a bad connection.
When asked who the agents were, he responded: "White American, white military.
"They came at night. ... There were too many. I couldn't count them," he added.Ooooo… “white” American military, at night, even; comin' to get yo' black a**! (Guess Iraq woke a lot of people up.) Could the word ‘they’ in “they would start shooting” possibly be a reference to Aristide’s own countrymen? Just a thought. Believe me, if the military wanted the president of Haiti dead, he would be.
Staying behind would have netted the same result. However, for some, complaining is a way of assuring oneself that he/she is still living; or so I'm told.
Andrew Ian Dodge is right.
