Uh, why?

From the New York Times for March 12:

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 11 - The newly appointed prime minister, Gerard Latortue, said Thursday that it might take as long as two years to prepare for elections. That would put a new elected government beyond the 2005 timeline envisioned in the United States-backed transition plan to help Haiti recover after the departure of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

"We really want to give an equal chance to all political parties, to all candidates," said Mr. Latortue, in his first interview since returning to Haiti on Wednesday after decades of living in United States and elsewhere. "We want not to go fast, but to take time."

From me for February 26:

I have already said that I believe Aristide should step down as part of a settlement involving an orderly transition and guarantees of arrangements for elections, elections, I add here, which should take place under international supervision. I still believe that....

The elites have made some motions in regard to the first half of that but, I think tellingly, have been very coy about the second part. Lacking such enforceable guarantees, I fear the time for elections will not prove to be "ripe" until the outcome can be as pre-ordained as it was in Iran, with all the show and none of the substance of democracy, with the rich back in their mansions and the army in control of the poor in their hope-drained hovels.

"Take time," indeed.