Bush is still ignoring the genocide in Sudan. He has mentioned 'terrorism' and 'security' dozens upon dozens of times in his recent speeches to Congress and to US citizens. Has he even mentioned Sudan once? Does he even know what genocide was? Who wants to bet that we'd be in Sudan right now if they were a major oil trader with us?
The US has donated a small sum of $65 million to Sudan relief efforts. That is nothing when compared to the Iraq War ($200 billion) or the tsunami relief ($1 billion). Billions have also been put into the effort to get the Taliban out of Afghanistan.
Even Bush's partner in crime, Tony Blair, has been to Sudan twice. He has also worked with the UN to find peace in Sudan. A peace deal was made and was supposed to be in effect on January 1st of this year. The violence has continued. The US must act now and put troops into Sudan to end murder. Where are the conservatives who are praising Bush for ending Saddam's reign of genocide? It's the same thing, folks. There's just no oil.
Yeh, Bush really deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. He can't make peace in a country in the Middle East and he won't even try to make one in a country without any oil. What a peaceful man. -Pat
From the NY Times:
This photo was taken in the village of Hamada on Jan. 15, right after a Sudanese government-backed militia, the janjaweed, attacked it and killed 107 people. One of them was this little boy. I'm not showing the photo of his older brother, about 5 years old, who lay beside him because the brother had been beaten so badly that nothing was left of his face. And alongside the two boys was the corpse of their mother.
This photo shows the corpse of a man with an injured leg who was apparently unable to run away when the janjaweed militia attacked.
This is a photo of a man who fled barefoot and almost made it to this bush before he was shot dead.
Last is the skeleton of a man or woman whose wrists are still bound. The attackers pulled the person's clothes down to the knees, presumably so the victim could be sexually abused before being killed. If the victim was a man, he was probably castrated; if a woman, she was probably raped.
