Bill Clinton apologized about his failure to assume his responsibility in preventing the Rwanda genocide of 1994. Currently, genocide is being organized and fueled in Cote d’Ivoire by the same actors who organized the Rwanda Genocide, namely French and UN troops. With their demand to overthrow the legitimate President Laurent Gbagbo by all means, Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton are encouraging French and ONUCI troops to support Northern rebels now turned to terrorists. Hatred is increasing between Muslim and Christian, Northern and Southern communities.
In his father’s home continent Africa, Barrack Obama’s positions, often completely at odds with his own speeches, are marred with terrible and damaging blunders.
In Cote d’Ivoire, the African American US President who professed on Saturday July 11, 2009 at the Ghana’s Parliament that
“No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery,”
is the one who was not embarrassed to reject the ruling of the Cote d’Ivoire’s Constitutional Council (the country’s Supreme Court) with such light arguments as the Council is “pro-Gbagbo.”
He praised the fact that
“Ghanaians have chosen Constitutional rule over autocracy”
Yet if you spit so contemptuously on the rule of law – which remains one of the pillars of the American democracy – by rejecting in this way Cote d’Ivoire’s Constitution, it is hard for people to believe you when you profess democracy around the world.
Obama also said history is
“not with those who use coups or change Constitutions to stay in power”
. Checking the facts, it is nowhere found that Laurent Gbagbo ever used coups or changed the Ivorian Constitution to stay in power. Instead, Gbagbo was victim of a coup organized by Alassane Ouattara and the French less than two years after he seized power through general uprising following his election by the Ivorian People in 2000, which ruling General Robert Guei tried to cancel.
Gbagbo even went further and accepted a constitutional change, in its Article 48, in order to allow Burkinabe national Alassane Ouattara to run for President in Cote d’Ivoire. He made that concession to the pressures from France in the expectation that he would avoid war and enjoy peace in his country.
“As I said in Cairo, each nation gives life to democracy in its own way, and in line with its own traditions,”
Obama declared. Yet he has rejected the constitutional way the Ivorian nation proclaims its election results, winners and losers. Otherwise, if
“the essential truth of democracy is that each nation determines its own destiny”
as he said, why did Obama join Choi Young-Jil, the UNSG representative and head of the ONUCI, who spit on Cote d’Ivoire’s Constitution, which is the nation’s proclaimed choice of destiny, by rejecting the Constitutional Council’s ruling on the November 28, 2010 runoff election that pronounced Laurent Gbagbo as the winner and Alassane Ouattara as the looser?
Why did Obama show such contempt for the Cote d’Ivoire’s Constitution and nation by rejecting the Council’s supreme authority on elections, choosing instead to support the looser, and thus throwing the country into the current civil war that is counting deaths each and every day since December 2010?
As former South African President and Nobel Price winner Nelson Mandela put it about George W. Bush on his stubbornness to start an unprovoked war in Iraq, it can be said today of Barrack Obama that he lacks “foresight” in the Cote d’Ivoire crisis. For, it is surely lack of foresight to regard a butcher as a saint.
The truth is that in Cote d’Ivoire currently, French Licorne and ONUCI troops are preparing genocide, exactly the same way French and MINUAR troops organized and sometimes led the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Yet when he said “it is still far too easy for those without conscience to manipulate whole communities into fighting among faiths and tribes,” Obama thought and still thinks that only Africans can manipulate and inflame hatred between communities.
Carried along by the emotion of a personal friendship with an ally in the war on Iraq and Afghanistan, Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton would turn their eyes off the importation by the ONUCI of 38 truck loads of 76 containers of weapons and military equipments from Chad, a country where French troops are stationed to protect Idriss Deby’s dictatorial regime.
These weapons are currently seized in Cameroon by French puppet leader Paul Biya. It is quite certain that the arms will be shipped to their final Cote d’Ivoire’s destination of Bouake, the stronghold of the Northern rebels currently waging war against the legitimate government, in total violation of the Security Council’s arms embargo set since 2004. Even this violation of the arms embargo intentionally perpetrated by the French and ONUCI “impartial forces,” which are supposed to maintain peace in Cote d’Ivoire but instead inflame war, would not worry Barrack Obama and bring him to question the trust he so blindly placed upon France and the UNO.
Yet on the ground, Licorne and ONUCI are inflaming hatred between the Muslim North and the Christian South of Cote d’Ivoire. This hatred is mounting day by day, as Northern terrorists, who are trained, armed and led by Licorne and ONUCI troops are killing innocent people – just yesterday, 5 civilians were shot dead at a checkpoint in the “Deux Plateaux” neighborhood and a police officer was beheaded -, which brings “Patriot Youth” to seek revenge by killing any Northern rebels they would catch with weapons. Thus hatred and thirst of vengeance keep spiraling amongst communities that lived peacefully before.
It is hard to believe that this is what Barrack and Hillary wanted in Cote d’Ivoire.
“No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy to enrich themselves,”
Obama further stated in Accra, Ghana.
Yet, despite the US capabilities to track dictators’ assets around the world, there is no indication that Laurent Gbagbo ever embezzled public funds in Cote d’Ivoire to enrich himself. There is no known foreign bank accounts or anything else showing that Gbagbo ever exploited the Ivorian economy to enrich himself. Yet it is widely known that Alassane Ouattara, the election looser supported by the Obama administration, had looted Cote d’Ivoire’s Treasury when he was former, ailing President Houphouet Boigny’s all powerful Prime Minister.
Dominique Ouattara, his French wife, is well known in the US for her wealth. The Ouattara’s are not only real estate moguls. They are also the owners of the Jacques Dessange’s beauty service franchise, which apparently maintains as one of their loyal customers… Hillary Clinton.
Many questions have been running around about the troubling position of Barrack Obama on current Cote d’Ivoire crisis. Is it true that lobby groups, now jealous of China’s increasing breakthrough in African economies and affairs, are thirsting to own by all means the cocoa sector and the newly discovered, high quality oil of Cote d’Ivoire? Gbagbo had once said that he would turn his back to Western partners if those do not respect Cote d’Ivoire. He said he would diversify the country’s partners by including China, Brazil, Dubai, India and Russia. Is this the reason why Western interests want his head so badly?
It is advanced that Alassane Ouattara sometimes ran his last presidential campaign using a private jet lent him by George Soros. Billionaire Soros is known as the greatest lobbyist of the Democratic Party that led Obama to the White House, just like he led Bill Clinton to the White House. The so called popular fundraising of hundreds of millions through Internet by the Obama campaign team is said to be just a cover to comply with laws on elections. Cash may have entered the coffers of the Obama campaign mostly through presidential fund raising gatherings, after it had been distributed to specific individuals. One of the main providers of such cash is said to be Georges Soros. If this were true, one may conclude that Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton are ready to go through genocide to give ownership of Cote d’Ivoire to business interests through their puppet president Alassane Ouattara.
Both Barrack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy accepted Alassane Ouattara-appointed Ambassadors for Cote d’Ivoire.
Yet, as the profoundly divided, AU-appointed panel of African leaders has found it at its own expense, Alassane Ouattara is not (yet) the legitimate President of Cote d’Ivoire.
In asking the President of the Constitutional Council to have Alassane Ouattara take an oath as the President of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, the panel understood that Russia was right when its government said that Ouattara may have won elections, but he will be a legitimate President only after he is sworn in by the Constitutional Council.
Now Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton realize that all the decisions they have been taking hastily as well as all the decisions Alassane Ouattara has been taking in the name of Cote d’Ivoire are nul and void, because Alassane Ouattara lacks the legitimacy to do so. This is because Ouattara is not (yet) the legitimate President of Cote d’Ivoire.
The Constitutional Council has already taken Laurent Gbagbo’s oath as the legitimate President. There is no way a Supreme Court can overturn its own decision. This position was indirectly but clearly expressed by Constitutional Council President Paul Yao N’dre when he declined the AU invitation to meet the AU’s Peace and Security Commission in Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia.
Why was the Obama administration so quick to put the cart before the horse in their stand on Cote d’Ivoire? By the way, there is currently no way Alassane Ouattara can become a President even if Laurent Gbagbo decided to quit, which is the less likely possibility. For, Cote d’Ivoire Constitution states that the President of the Parliament succeed as President if the incumbent President quits or dies. Ouattara is not the President of Parliament. He cannot be sworn as President even if Laurent Gbagbo quits or dies.
Just like in the Arab world, the Obama administration has reached a dead end in Cote d’Ivoire. When the odds do not turn your way, isn’t it wise to turn to the truth?
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