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Nor mine. But does mean that the criticisms have to be equal? I don't think so.

   

   

   

Then you must be just confused like Bart said!

Have a nice day.

   

Zelaya was ordered by the Supreme Court NOT to do this and he sent in the military to do it anyway because the Executive in Honduras is prohibited from calling elections, that is a power reserved to the Congress.

The Supreme Court found him in contempt, the Congress agreed and impeached him according to the law, his own Vice President agreed and took the oath of office, and the transfer of power was peaceful. The only people who thought it was a coup were people like Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Obama, and disappointed leftists like yourself.

Honduras acted according to their own laws and, like it or not, you need to respect that.

   

More horseshit.

I don't know where you thought Obama thought it was a coup. They were pretty silent on the subject actually, making a general statement and not making any other demands, which is proof that they approved of it. The Organization of American States, leaders across Central America condemned the action and called for Zelaya to be restored to office.

He didn't call an election. It was a referendum...a public opinion poll that would not have required any changes to government in and of itself. It is not illegal in any country to poll your citizens on an issue.

   

Just so we're clear:

   

Irrelevant posturing to satisfy people like yourself who refuse to acknowledge the rights of Hondurans to chart their own path.

The Constitution is clear on the matter that the President of Honduras does not have the authority to call an election, any election, and furthermore that the President is barred by law from proposing an end to term limits.

   

1) He didn't call an election. A referendum asking whether the government should consider constitutional reforms is not an election, nor is it even a propoal to end term limits (which would be in the form a bill, not a public survey).

2) Nice bullshit dimissmal. I'd love to hear who you think the Organization of American States was "posturing" for and why you think they felt the need to. This is a multi-national organization representing the government of all the Americas, not one tied to local interests.

   

Was sticking with the OP on the Brits Mr C...

   

Ah, ok, so blacks oppressing blacks must be western puppets. Ok then.

Excuses, excuses.

   

Often. Excuses for what? Blaming ALL the parties responsible doesn't excuse ANY of the individual parties. France for example, blocked UN efforts to stop the Rwandan Genocide, shipped tons of machetes to the regime into arm the Interahamwe for their killing spree and finally launched "Operation Turqouise" to cover the eventual Hutu retreat when the RPF counter-attacked. Why? Because France ahs interests in Rwandan mining and agricultural exports like coffee and were also interesting in promoting French-speaking Africans like the Hutus over Anglo-speaking Africans like Tutsis.

But somehow you think that only people with fingers on the trigger are culpable and their protectors and backers are not?

   

BF, you have made up your mind and nothing I say will change it. My opinions reflect my experiences in Africa and in the UK.

   

Thats exactly it brock, those are your opinions from your own experiences which at best are anecdotal.

   

...as a high-level spy monitoring diplomatic communications? What "experience" could you possibly have that would inform you of the forces influencing those regimes?

   

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