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To: LindyBill who wrote (57546)	8/2/2004 5:39:24 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793799

Update on Genocidal Appeasement Monkeys Rottweiler blog Kerry has said he'll mend ties with France, and I ask "What the hell for?" France made itself a speed bump on the road to removing a genocidal Ba'athist dictator, having propped him up with weapons, intelligence, diplomatic support, and a UN veto threat, and continues to be an obstacle. If you think somehow France opposed the war because they disdain the use of force or the risk of civilian casualties, think again, as the investigation into its role in the Rwanda genocide continues. Rwanda is to investigate France's alleged role in the mass killing of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994. The Rwandan government said it was setting up an "independent commission charged with assembling the evidence of France's involvement in the genocide". Rwanda has regularly accused the French of aiding and abetting the Hutu extremists who killed 800,000 people. Is there a pattern there, or does a country have to slaughter more than 100,000 of its own people to merit French support? Paris denies responsibility - although it has admitted supporting Rwanda's former Hutu-led government. They also quite publicly supported Saddam, but then they can always claim they were swayed by his overly generous kickbacks and illegal oil vouchers. Meanwhile the French dither on Sudan's current crisis as they stare greedily at those massive Total FINA Elf oil field concessions in its southern rift valley, the Muglad Basin. Of course back in 2000 Amnesty International said the people living in the oil fields had been targeted for torture, rape, displacement, and any abuse you can think of. The US State Department said they were using a scorched earth policy, and this is just in southern Sudan, not the Darfur. The current Rwandan government, which took over after the genocide, argues that Paris knowingly armed the killers and provided an escape route after their defeat. I have my doubts that there's anything the French could've done to stop the killers from escaping, anymore than they could stop the German Army from taking a summer vacation on the French coast, so maybe they should get a pass on giving them a pass. In 1998 a French parliamentary panel cleared Paris of responsibility for the genocide. However the MPs admitted that successive French governments had extended diplomatic and military support to Rwanda's hardline Hutu government between 1990 and 1994. There's a vast gulf between having Clinton apologize for not doing anything to stop the Rwanda genocide, even though we now find out he knew all about it despite his feigned ignorance, compared to the French having to try and maintain that the weren't directly responsible for the genocide. And John Kerry wants Chirac's permission before acting? No doubt we'll have further confessions about cutting of ears and heads and razing villages, because that's exactly what happened in Iraq, Rwanda, and continues in Sudan. If you have French support for your actions you should take a long look at what you're doing, because it might amount to genocide. nicedoggie.net