Haiti's president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is defiant. He rejected the Bush administration's suggestion to hold early elections in an effort to diffuse the crisis.
Aristide's rejection of the Bush administration's proposal for early elections amid a crisis in Haiti.
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I think the best way for the United States to demonstrate it's mature is to send additional police, international police troops to increase the number of those international police already in Haiti, and helping us to disarm the terrorists…
The terrorists are here, but not better armed than you. You have the constitution as your compass, and democratic values as your weapons.
We had 32 coup d'etats; it's enough. We need now to respect the constitutional order. And I will leave the palace on February 7, 2006, which is good for our democracy.
We feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.