White House Reconsiders Its Policy on Crisis in Sudan

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NAIROBI, Kenya, June 11 - The Bush administration is considering toughening its policy toward the government of Sudan over the events in Darfur, the western region where thousands of people have been killed and more than a million driven from their homes by Arab militias that many in the region say are linked directly to the Sudanese Army.

Bush officials say they are considering whether what is happening in Darfur amounts to genocide. So far, the administration has only used the term ethnic cleansing. The officials say they are also considering sanctions on individual Sudanese officials tied to the displacement.

In a telephone interview on Friday, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said the link between the militias, known as the Janjaweed, and the Sudanese government was strong, and that many people are still at risk of dying in Darfur and across the border in Chad.

"Without having a full intelligence report in front of me, what I am confident of saying is, clearly, we believe that the government of Sudan did provide support to these militias," he said.

White House Reconsiders Its Policy on Crisis in Sudan....

[shraby]

1. This has been going on for

a long time and they can't decide what to do about it??? Guess there aren't any assets to grab.

[Pachamama]

2. Guess Bush Co. feels now that enough people are dead its time to get the

...OIL....stay tuned...

[Tight_rope]

8. Precisely!

This seems to be the laid out plan for all of the neo-cons when trying to get resources for third world countries.

They provide the rebels with guns and weapons, so they can go in and disrupt society, over through the governments, put in a corrupt government that will allow it's people to suffer for years. Meanwhile, the US is reaping the natural resources through corrupt business deals. Years later a few poor souls are able to get out of that country with incriminating evidence. They go straight governments that proclaim to be on the side of humanity. After a few are killed the rest realize that they took the wrong fork in the road and instead start to contact the media, who then send their people in to investigate and get more incriminating evidence. The media goes back to it's country, starts showing pictures films about the corrupted government of the third word country. People cry out that the government should send troops to help the innocent and get rid of the bad regime. The bad government soon realizes the US has double crossed them and the war begins. (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo, Sudan, Iraq, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Viet Nam, Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, South African, and Peru, this list could go on for years.) You catch my drift!:beer:

[Pachamama]

9. Wish more people could see the truth...n/t

[CharlesGroce]

3. I'll consider it for them...

murder amounts to genocide, plain and simple. And the policy should have been from the beginning that the UN should have rolled in there to prevent what is happening now. That would have happened had the administration not appointed some businessman to oversee the problems of central Africa.

[lil-petunia]

4. But they are only blackies

why should we get involved? they ain't like us, and besides, they ain't good christian souls.

Mass murder. Torture. Amputations. Rape. Burning of villages. And shrub goes golfing. This has to be the worst president in the history of our country.

then again, we didn't do the right thing when the Tutsi and Hutu were killing each other, either.

[struggle4progress]

5. kick

:kick:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Flippity-floppity-floo.

[htuttle]

7. The US military already has troops there in Chad

Supposedly, they are 'training' the army of Chad.

Why do I not like the sound of that?