Re:dumbass (Score 1)

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With nerve-rattling information bombarding us daily from world hot spots such as Iraq, North Korea or Iran, long-running state-sponsored genocide in the Darfur region of western Sudan barely makes a blip on our radar. This is unfortunate, because there is a continuing effort on the part of the Sudan's Arab-controlled government of Omar al-Bashir to systematically eradicate non-Arab Muslims in Darfur. (Oct 24, 2006)
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Yeap.. tell that to the People of Darfur, the US administration has known about this on going genocide for years and still Bush is unable or unwilling to do anything about it.

Could this be because it's Muslim's that are being wiped out in the hundreds of thousands! Or maybe because there's no economical incentive involved. There's little political ground to be made out of intervention apart from saving a few million people, bush wasn't able to save a few million of his own people with ample warning from Katrina.. Or maybe the US really is spreading her troops too thin and should listen to some of the more rational isolationists and pull her nose out of the rest of the world and deal with problems in his own nation. eg Education, health, poverty, rampant disease. Then again, with the internal striff lingering in the background with the Latino and Black issues. Along with growing internal unrest over the War's in the middle east. Bush maybe preparing for major civil unrest. Revolution is all state's would be a little bad inscription on his memorial statue in Washington, right along side an icon born in a log cabin and created into a myth.

I remember just after 9/11 a joke went around about a young child and his father visiting the memorial in NY and the son reading the inscription.. "in memory of those first who fell in the war with the muslims..." the boy turns to his father and asks "what's a Muslim?" maybe the world needs to ask it's self what's an American, will the next Darfur, Rwanda, Yugoslavia and Kurdistan be Louisiana, Mississippi, Waco, Texas.

Washington Post
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said for the first time yesterday that genocide has taken place in Sudan and that the government in Khartoum and government-sponsored Arab militias known as Janjaweed "bear responsibility" for rapes, killings and other abuses that have left 1.2 million black Africans homeless. (2004)

London:
120 survivors from the Holocaust and genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia have today called on UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to impose sanctions on the Sudanese government to stop the conflict in Darfur. (Oct 19, 2006)

The Observer
MPs from the influential House of Commons foreign affairs committee are urging British businesses with investments in Sudan to withdraw from the war-torn African country. The call for disinvestment is aimed at companies including Shell, Rolls-Royce and British Airways. It is intended to put pressure on the government in Khartoum, which is accused of supporting a civil war that has led to hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in Darfur. - Conal Walsh (Oct 1, 2006)

The Observer
'I will kill them all with chemical weapons,' announced Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, as he prepared to gas the Iraqi Kurds in 1988. 'Who is going to say anything? The international community? Fuck them!'

Since Kurdistan, genocide has increased. There have been campaigns of terror that were either full attempts at ethnic extermination or near enough as to make no difference in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1995, Rwanda in 1994 and Darfur from 2002 to the present day. In all cases, the United Nations has promised to uphold the highest principles of international law and then committed sins of omission which were so grievous it has been close to being an accessory to mass murder. - Nick Cohen (Oct 29, 2006)