AndyMarquisLIVE
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To bring you up to speed, Darfur has been burning in turmoil for years and nobody has done anything. Recent reports have shown China is arming and funding the Sudanese government, which is killing it's people in mass numbers.
Now, we're stepping in to do something (as ineffective as sanctions may be) because the U.N. doesn't have the testicles to do anything.
Mr. Bush also wants a new U.N. resolution sending peacekeepers to Sudan, the U.N. has rejected in the past, mostly because of China.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18912290/
WASHINGTON - President Bush ordered new U.S. economic sanctions Tuesday to pressure Sudan’s government to halt the bloodshed in Darfur that the administration has condemned as genocide.
“I promise this to the people of Darfur: The United States will not avert our eyes from a crisis that challenges the conscience of the world,” the president said.
The sanctions target government-run companies involved in Sudan’s oil industry, and three individuals, including a rebel leader suspected of being involved in the violence in Darfur.
“For too long the people of Darfur have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the bombing, murder and rape of innocent civilians,” the president said. “My administration has called these actions by their rightful name: genocide.
“The world has a responsibility to put an end to it,” Bush said.
Now, we're stepping in to do something (as ineffective as sanctions may be) because the U.N. doesn't have the testicles to do anything.
Mr. Bush also wants a new U.N. resolution sending peacekeepers to Sudan, the U.N. has rejected in the past, mostly because of China.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18912290/
WASHINGTON - President Bush ordered new U.S. economic sanctions Tuesday to pressure Sudan’s government to halt the bloodshed in Darfur that the administration has condemned as genocide.
“I promise this to the people of Darfur: The United States will not avert our eyes from a crisis that challenges the conscience of the world,” the president said.
The sanctions target government-run companies involved in Sudan’s oil industry, and three individuals, including a rebel leader suspected of being involved in the violence in Darfur.
“For too long the people of Darfur have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the bombing, murder and rape of innocent civilians,” the president said. “My administration has called these actions by their rightful name: genocide.
“The world has a responsibility to put an end to it,” Bush said.
demanding that Bush DO SOMETHING about Darfur!!! Now Bush is doing something, regardless of how dumb it is it's really all he can do short of invading and overthrowing the existing government. So what criticism will be heaped upon his head over this latest development?
