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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (291645)7/25/2004 2:44:27 PM
From: mishedlo  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
On Thursday Secretary of State Colin L. Powell offered his answer: "The burden for this, for providing security, rests fully on the shoulders of Sudan's government." This view conveniently absolves outsiders of responsibility for getting a civilian protection force into Darfur and reassures Security Council members such as China and Russia that Sudan's sovereignty will be respected. But it is naive.

Sudan's government has attacked civilians with helicopter gunships. It has armed a militia that burns villages, slaughtering the men and raping the women. It has spent months obstructing humanitarian access to the resulting refugee camps, denying aid workers visas and impounding their equipment in customs, condemning tens of thousands of people to die for lack of food and medicine. Even the recent ramping up of diplomatic pressure, which has allowed relief to flow more freely, has not distracted Sudan's government from its purpose. Its commandants have been closing down refugee camps and sending inhabitants off into the torched countryside, where there is no food, no protection and no foreign witnesses.

washingtonpost.com
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That statement in bold is the equivalent of putting the burden for providing security to Jews on Hitler. What a pathetic statement from Powell.

Obviously Bush feels we can not spare any troops and probably need more in Iraq. What a tragedy.

Can someone tell me wht this is all about anyway? How does killing tens of thousands of peasants and burning their villages accomplish anything? What exactly is this genocide over?

Mish
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