thinkprogress.org — In an extremely heated exchange with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing yesterday, President Bush's ambassador to Sudan Adrew Natsios defiantly refused to characterize the violence there as genocide.
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geekeeApr 13, 2007
In Break With U.N., Bush Calls Sudan Killings GenocideThursday, June 2, 2005<a class="user" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060101725.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060101725.html</a>I don't know what thinkprogress.org's angle is but they are probably spinning the story as usual to make Bush look bad. Keep drinking the kool-aid.
geekeeApr 13, 2007
I would like to be an optimist and hope that things have gotten better there, which might explain the ambassador's statement. I don't think the Bush admin is performing any sort of cover-up on this based on their past statements. If thinkprogress.org has evidence the ambassador is wrong about the current situation, I'd like to see it
phrophApr 13, 2007
He should have said,"I understand that you retracted your comment from the Georgetown paper, however this still doesn't answer my question and with out a direct response i can only assume that your opinion is the same as your original comment in the newspaper. So if you would care to clarify, is there a genocide going on in Darfur?"
pirahnaxp1Apr 13, 2007
I find it amazing when left get so outrage about the answer but not the genocide. If the left really care about those poor people in Darfur. They wouldn't have a problem sending U.S troops to stop the genocide , that means killing the bad guys doing all the violence. Then back the President so that he can get those (leftwing) countries (like Europe , China, India , Russia) to send peacekeeping troops to occupy Darfur. So they can create a new government base on freedom so the poor people of Darfur can connect to the Global Economy. I guess the only thing that left can't stomach are bad answers from Bush Administration official.
overtokeApr 13, 2007
How many lights do you see?
domzaApr 13, 2007
How many incompetent, pig headed morons can one administration have? Seriously?
hacbartonApr 13, 2007
The really, really sad thing is that the government seems to think that if they ignore a genocide for long enough, it will stop. The even sadder thing is that they are right.
olikApr 13, 2007
@ccc3 You seem to mistake his role for that of an advocate. He works for US, not Sudan.
sirbarnesMay 8, 2007
Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders voted to continue support of the genocide in Darfur <a class="user" href="http://sheldonbarnes.blogspot.com/2007/05/berkshire-hathaways-shareholders-voted.html">http://sheldonbarnes.blogspot.com/2007/05/berkshire-hathaways-shareholders-voted.html</a>Follow the money trail to see why the United States claims to be a fervent defender of human rights, but refuses to intervene in Darfur and any other genocide that happens in Africa.
krunk4everOct 26, 2007
They're actually making a documentary on what's going on with Darfur, hopefully to spread the knowledge to more people:<a class="user" href="http://www.hd-trailers.net/preview.php?id=darfur_now">http://www.hd-trailers.net/preview.php?id=darfur_n ...</a>