Steppin' into this one would be kinda like gettin' involved in a shootout between a couple of rumrunning gangs in Prohibition. Nasty and probably without any possibility of a useful result. Haiti is one big ugly miserable can of worms and it don't sit on a whole heap of oil, does it? And like Walking Eagle said, this one wasn't Bush's idea in the first place. So why would he go there?

To defend democracy?   Oh, ha! ha! ha! Oook! Oook! (Gasp!) Oh yeaahhhh! Since when has that been the real reason behind any military actions by the USA or any other major or minor power in this world?

Military actions, baby, are taken when the one takin' it has something material or political to gain from takin' it...or at least thinks he does. Just like Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. Same old story. These guys in high places don't get out their hired guns in order to be nice guys...but they do give out a few free turkeys at Christmas and just before election time. Count on it.

Chongo