Clinton Apologizes to Haiti for his and Bush's policies! [View All]

With cheap food imports, Haiti can't feed itself

They're led by former U.S. President Bill Clinton - now U.N. special envoy to Haiti - who publicly apologized this month for championing policies that destroyed Haiti's rice production. Clinton in the mid-1990s encouraged the impoverished country to dramatically cut tariffs on imported U.S. rice.

"It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake," Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 10. "I had to live everyday with the consequences of the loss of capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people because of what I did; nobody else."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR2010032001329.html

Thanks to Thom Hartmann for highlighting this apology today and more discussion and the op title form allie123 at dkos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/23/849886/-Helping-Haitis-earthquake-survivors:-Clinton-Apologizes-to-Haiti-for-his-and-Bushs-policies!

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I see more than half a dozen ops about Bush wiping his hands on Clinton's shirt and no highlights of Clinton's apology to Haiti - it must be my error not being able to find them.

When do average Americans get their apology for the devastation caused by decades of conservative economic policies, you know, trickle down on us pee-ons.