  I'm sorry, we're busy in Iraq... Oil interests, you know. Which is why we can't go to Haiti and help supress the violent uprising. We helped you in 1994, Haiti. This one's on you. Just don't send any of your "boat people" here, we are no longer the land of opportunity. The Statue of Liberty doesn't really want your huddled masses. She's too busy protecting her Own Interests, and we're too busy moving troops around on sandtables and scaring everyone in the US into thinking that soon there might be a Major Oil Crisis and that Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction are pointed at us even now. We still have some Iraqi Villians at large--you know the ones, from that handy deck of playing cards. And when we tire of that we can always inexplicably raise the terror alert from serious to imminent, from green to orange.
We can leak tidbits to the press about our "intelligence" and make everyone forget about the bodybags. Everyone gets really riled up when we mention Osama Bin Laden. When we find that bastard ... so you see, we're really very busy with this Important Business. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Bush is a sneaky S.O.B. Click urlLink here and read about the crisis in Haiti and why we aren't doing anything to help.
It certainly backs up one of the initial problems with going to war in Iraq--now we're the World Playground Monitors. "Play nice, we said Aristide gets to be the leader. " If Bush is so truly motivated by Democracy and Equality and Opportunity, why shouldn't the Haitians get some of it? Why not go storming into the country, flags flying high on our tanks, and make them all get along? Because it doesn't work. Bush knows that. Colin Powell knows that. Every Republican and Democrat in the Senate, the House, and Bush's cabinet knows it, too.
So what made going to war so easy? Bush played on our fears. The nation was ripe for it after September 11. We wanted revenge--for all our humanity, it's really just an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I wonder what would happen if the President was more concerned about the U.S.'s actual welfare than saving face? 
