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Repeating Rwanda: Hillary Clinton On Darfur
October 25th, 2007
In The End, Hillary’s Willing To Just Let Them Be Slaughtered
Her website touts a tapistry of all the bills she’s supported and nice statements she’s put behind ending the “crisis in Darfur; but when it comes down to it, if she were president, she wouldn’t put any muscle behind that hustle.
In the CNN youtube debate, this is what some of the candidates said:
Senator Joe Biden of Delaware said he would send 2,500 U.S. troops to Darfur to try to end the civil war there.
“They think we can save them,” he said, “Guess what? We can.”
It took three tries to get Clinton to answer the same questions. She finally said American ground troops do not belong in the fight because they are overextended in Iraq. *
That’s a nice little argument, and someone could almost buy it (if they were brain dead, dumb, and stupid); but when you look at an example like Bush deciding he wanted to surge earlier this year; we were already “over-extended” by most every “progressive’s” estimation; yet some how we mustered up what, 20,000 more troops when we needed them.
We have enough troops to do whatever we want if we WANT to do it. Of course “want to” is the operative phrase here. Just like how there’s no money for health care, or increasing college loans or for head start, then out of the thin blue sky we come up with half a trillion dollars in 4 years, out side of the budget. I guess it just materialized out of the sky when Hillary and the legislature wished upon a falling star. Well, I wish Hillary would be strong in opposing genocide.
We can do what we want to do; we only can’t do when we don’t want to.
Contact Hillary, the White House and your Congressmen and let them know that they need to take decisive action now.
With other countries providing troops for the United Nations/African Union joint force we probably won’t even need to provide many if any troops; maybe only air support, money and supplies. But nonetheless, support troops should not be just summarily taken off the table as Hillary has done.
Bill Clinton apologized for Rwanda a couple of years ago. For what? If his wife became president, she’d just do it again; it being, uuuuhhhh pretty much nothing.
Maybe if I start spreading a rumor that Darfur has yellow cake uranium, then Hillary will be for military action like she was the last time that ridiculous rumor was spread.
*http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=470316&in_page_id=1770
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It is not just a Hilary issue though it is an international issue and common when dealing with third world countries where we have nothing to gain.
We are a sad sack of shit glob of humanity we are.
Greetings,
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Cooper, true; but that broader recognition is beside my point.
Everyone else is not looking at a good shot of becoming the president of the country I live in, and president of the most powerful country by the way. Secondly, I don’t have black celebrities and activist running around telling me I should vote for all those other people, with a pretense that they’re for my people. And maybe this applies to politicians in Europe and some other places, but I don’t have to see them going around being some fake progressive humanitarian who supposedly cares about people in juxtaposition to those “mean spirited and heartless Republicans”; while she flounders around in indifference.
Just more proof that Hillary is an idiot. Yet those “in the know” have tabbed her as the next president. She’s just another Bush - just a different gender, a different “dynasty,” but a tad bit smarter.
Hillary will equal empty promises, taking our troops out of Iraq in 2013, I don’t have any hopes she can or will do anything constructive to end the genocide in Darfur.
My candidate is Dennis Kucinich and he co-sponsored the China Resolution on Darfur, and the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act. Love him or hate him he is a man of pure integrity.
I have been wrestling with what options could be taken, I don’t think that sending U.S. troops will necessarily be a good idea. In lieu of sanctions that only hurt the people, I think I am leaning toward supporting Chad, C.A.R., boycotting Olympic sponsors until China uses their enormous pull on the Sudanese government and divesting corporate sponsorship of the regime that is behind the bloodshed. I am no policy maker but I wonder if that would be enough.
The contributions of both you and Wayne at the Electronic Village have really sunk this tragedy into my soul.
Wishing you well.
I’m not buying it. She won’t get my vote. She’s a waste of our time and I don’t think she’s getting that seat.
Yeah sauerkraut, I don’t see much different in Hillary and Bush. In the end she votes for his crap from the obviously fabricated war, to the unPatriot Act, to domestic spying; and clear cares no more about people than he does.
Danielle, Chad has its own building criss, they can’t do anything visa via Darfur, besides what they’re already doing, which is providing refuge.
Sending U.S. troops is not necessarily a good ideal, but it’s not necessarily a bad ideal either; and in lue of nothing else, might be necessary. I’m not saying I like the ideal of American troops going in anywhere in Africa, but it should not be simarily taken off the table as an option. We can always keep the option on the table to nuke people to death; but we can’t keep the option on the table to send a couple of thousand troops to save people?
Zoe, she was never at the top of my list, but once she said this; I took her completely off my list.
Explain to this poor ol country boy how the United States of America has the Constitutional authority to be interfering in any country in the whole wide world?
Jimmy, well, uuuuhhhhhh; there’s nothing in the constitution that outright prohibits it.
Secondly, we interfer in every country when ever there’s money in it for us; why can’t we to save people’s lives?
We actually already voted to do it in the United Nations. I just want us to actaully move forward to do what we said we would, and not just give it lip service or say well I sure hope somebody else does what we voted for.
The worst thing the USA did was use it’s power to prevent the word “genocide” from being spoken at the UN which is required to act during genocide. Clinton’s people used classic “Clinton Speak” to avoid saying the “G word”. Read Bystanders to Genocide, www.theatlantic.com/doc/200109/power-genocide and watch “Ghosts of Rwanda” on Youtube. Our minister showed it in church, everyone cried. Best sermon ever. To think that opening up an office in Harlem is the extent of Bill Clinton’s mea culpa! People have forgotten Africa’s holocaust, never forget.
Yep, both the Clinton and Bush administrations have worked hard to down play this as not being a genocide so they could do nothing.
Chelsea Clinton talked about her mother’s record on Darfur to Stanford University students, saying that she was “really proud that…mom was the first Democratic senator to call Darfur conflict genocide in May of 2004, and put a lot of pressure on the Bush administration to recognize it as genocide.”
As it turned out, the first senators who actually called Darfur genocide were Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, and Sam Brownback, R-Kansas.
Hillary Clinton’s first press statement referring to Darfur as “genocide” wasn’t until March 16, 2006. (Original story at blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/bill-and-chelse.html)
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SAVO HELETA
Author of “Not My Turn to Die:
Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia”
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Savo, these people lie about any and everything.