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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on July 01, 2009, 11:16:55 AM
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Addressing the UN General Assembly yesterday and speaking to reporters afterward, Zelaya compared himself not only to Jesus Christ, but also to Mahatma Gandhi, George Washington and Martin Luther King. Announcing his plan to return to his country tomorrow to resume the role that "the people" chose him for, he broadly attacked the Honduran "power elite" that just exiled him.
He also introduced the entourage that's to accompany him on tomorrow's flight from Washington to Tegucigalpa. The top figures are Argentina's leftist President Christina Kirchner and UN General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann -- an old Sandinista hand who's spent the last year trying to turn the United Nations into an arm of the Nicaraguan-Cuban-Venezuelan axis.
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/07012009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/rooting_for_the_enemy_176962.htm
If they arrest Zelaya that implies armed troops confronting him and doing that with a foreign president in tow is an act of war.
Will they allow the plane to land? What if the plane rejects such a refusal?
Bloviating is nice but how will this play out in real life?
Obama's meddling--the kind he couldn't muster on behalf of Iranian democracy--may lead to some interesting fireworks.
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Who rented the "Disappearing" machine and has not returned it yet?