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I can't speak for the Honduran Military and it's constitution, but our Military takes an oath to uphold and defend the constitution from enemies foreign and domestic. If our President one day became a threat to that constitution the Military would be obligated by oath to remove the threat.
Their military had the backing of the Supreme Court, Congress, and apparently the Honduran People. For them to instead side with someone who was seizing power illegally would have made them complicit in the rise of a dictator...If they had waited longer Zelaya would likely have reinforced his power base and then started to remove strong leaders from the Military to prevent action against him (which he had already started to do, but was blocked by the Supreme Court).
Zelaya was fast-tracking towards dictatorship any reasonable way you look at it...he was attempting to become a 'permanent' president, he was firing military leaders who supported the constitutioin, etc.
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