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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (756532)	12/28/2006 9:09:01 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"By the stats I posted, there were more people killed in Southern Sudan from 1984-1995 (over 2 million estimated killed) vs the last few years in Dafur, Sudan between 200,000 to 400,000 killed." That was during the period of the initial REBELLION against the central government (correct?) Would you separate out the period when separatist rebels were actively warring against the central Sudanese government (before they lost...) from the later period when the Sudanese Islamicists fired up their ethnic cleansing campaign in Darfur... (or do you consider them one and the same)? "I don't believe you have been for the war in Iraq, either...." You are incorrect in that assumption. I supported going to war (based on the information that was available at the time), and the war against Saddam was successful. (I of course supported the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda....) I turned against engagement in Iraq once the strategy morphed into an incomprehensible missmash of an endless occupation, with a half-Trillion dollar and rising price tag. I am not 'anti-war' but I am anti-failure. "...and that war is definitely in our National interest." I believe it is definitely HARMING our long-term national strategic interests. Major harm.