Don't Tase Me Bro
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U.S. State Department staff have recommended that the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya be declared a “military coup,” a U.S. official said on Thursday, a step that could cut off as much as $150 million in U.S. funding to the impoverished Central American nation.
The official, who spoke on condition he not be named, said State Department staff had made such a recommendation to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has yet to make a decision on the matter although one was likely soon.
Reuters
I have no problem with cutting off aid to Honduras because a country with an $11 trillion debt has no damn business handing out money to anyone. The reason the Obama Administration is moving towards this, however, is completely asinine and an outright lie. Zelaya was not deposed by a coup. He was democratically and constitutionally removed from office by a unanimous vote of the congress. Every member of his own party voted in favor of removal for God’s sake.
This action doesn’t surprise me in the least however, given Obama’s liking of socialists and radical Marxists around the world.