Forget Iraq, forget Dubai, forget censure, forget social security...

Earth_First

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Tue Mar-21-06 06:35 PM
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Forget Iraq, forget Dubai, forget censure, forget social security...

For two minutes and educate yourself on the situation in Sudan.

Why doesn't anyone ever mention the atrocities in Sudan in which the United States has labeled as being genocide?

Estimates of those killed in Sudan surpass 400,000 with nearly as many escaping as refugees to neighboring countries.

PLEASE educate yourself today, and PLEASE educate others TODAY!

http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/index.asp

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GrumpyGreg

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Tue Mar-21-06 06:41 PM
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1. It's madness over there,and it's spilling over into Chad.

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TomInTib

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Tue Mar-21-06 06:44 PM
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2. One of history's great tragedies flying right under the radar.

The only MSM outlet that stays on this is NY Times. Nicholas Kristoff has done some absolutely heart-wrenching features on Darfur and the Sudan.

I have often times wondered what is behind our (USA) lack of focus on this unholy genocide.

Sometimes I think Americans just cannot handle the sheer carnal, visceral aspect of the whole thing.

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rudy23

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Tue Mar-21-06 06:47 PM
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3. The admin's response has been Katrina-esque

--let's not go in too fast, let's watch 'em fight for a while.

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cantstandbush

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Tue Mar-21-06 06:55 PM
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4. No on in the US can be elected talking about Sudan. No oil....

It's a damn sad situation but in the long run, it will come back to haunt us if not hurt us.

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dipsydoodle

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Wed Mar-22-06 06:03 AM
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11. There is oil in The Sudan

but the Chinese are already there. Maybe there is a tacit agreemment between the USA and Schina not to encroach on each other's contracts.

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Earth_First

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Tue Mar-21-06 07:34 PM
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5. kick! n/t

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Jim Sagle

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Tue Mar-21-06 08:19 PM
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8. Your post and your sig line complement each other quite nicely.

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Iowa

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Tue Mar-21-06 08:18 PM
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7. K&R - This is probably the worst tragedy in the world right now.

My parents (around 80 years old) have befriended Sudanese refugees in their small rural town - they go to each others homes for dinner, my mom brings them clothing and furniture to help them get established, and my Dad has intervened with a landlord who was ripping them off. My mother adores their little baby - she sits with them in church and holds the baby. I'm rambling, but the point is, these are good hard-working people with family left behind. It seems so far removed to think about Sudan, but it's really a very small world; they desperately need any help we can provide.

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Chulanowa

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Wed Mar-22-06 05:19 AM
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9. And this is the sad reality

about America's interest in Africa. Reagan came out in favor of Apartheid. Clinton rotated on his thumb with Rwanda. Bush is snorting his coke while Sudan bleeds. Our Congress,, our Senate - they don't care. They see Africans as backwards brown savages one and all, fit only to lend shadow votes to the US's UN votes at best, and keep them living in poverty and terror to prevent them from realizing the resources under their feet at worst.

One day this will change. I am afraid that it will not be under the eye of America, sadly.

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newyawker99

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Wed Mar-22-06 11:32 AM
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13. Hi Chulanowa!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

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TheBaldyMan

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Wed Mar-22-06 05:22 AM
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10. no oil in Darfur, and Halliburton can't get a no-bid contract

for the relief effort.

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theHandpuppet

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Wed Mar-22-06 09:05 AM
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12. K&R

Guess the Bushreich just isn't interested enough in bringing "freedom and democracy" to places like Sudan.

K&R!

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