Cafeoutdoors.com: Honduras Coup

As I understand it, Honduras had a leftist president, Manuel Zelaya, who's a close ally and kind of a mini-me of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.

Zelaya was coming up against a term limit, so he called for a referendum to amend the constitution so he could keep on being president. For life, presumably, just like Hugo Chavez and the Castro brothers in Cuba.

The army wouldn't stand for that and it looked like they might kick Zelaya out of office, so Hillary Clinton has been calling for the past week telling them they better not do it. The army officers finally quit taking her calls.

This morning the army arrested Zelaya, flew him to Costa Rica, and turned him loose (I guess beaner coups are kinder and gentler than they used to be). The congress of Honduras appointed another politician from Zelaya's own party to fill out his term until the next election in January. The new president says Zelaya can only come back to Honduras if he quits screwing around with Hugo Chavez.

Chavez mobilized the Venezuelan army and says he's gonna invade Honduras and put Zelaya back in office. Now there are three leaders raising hell about Zelaya being kicked out - Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Barack Obama!

Shouldn't we be on the other side of this deal?

Notice how Obama always comes down on the anti-American side of every dispute? What a deal - now he's backing the expansion of socialism in Central America, and putting us on the same side as Castro and Chavez.

Next, we'll probably help Venezuela invade the place so as to keep Honduras socialist. The Chinese will end up with another base there, and they'll get all the damn bananas. For a liberal, the only legitimate use of U.S. military power is against the interests of the United States.

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