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Sunday, October 03, 2004

Non-baseball: Bush lied, Sudanese didn't die!

The evil George W. Bush (aka 'Neo-Hitler') has set his greedy imperialist sights on the Sudan- for oil, no doubt:
American warnings that Darfur is heading for an apocalyptic humanitarian catastrophe have been widely exaggerated by administration officials, it is alleged by international aid workers in Sudan. Washington's desire for a regime change in Khartoum has biased their reports, it is claimed.

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Another aid worker told The Observer : 'It suited various governments to talk it all up, but they don't seem to have thought about the consequences. I have no idea what Colin Powell's game is, but to call it genocide and then effectively say, "Oh, shucks, but we are not going to do anything about that genocide" undermines the very word "genocide".'

While none of the aid workers and officials interviewed by The Observer denied there was a crisis in Darfur - or that killings, rape and a large-scale displacement of population had taken place - many were puzzled that it had become the focus of such hyperbolic warnings when there were crises of similar magnitude in both northern Uganda and eastern Congo.
How dare the US Government attempt to stop the rape and slaughter of 300,000+ Africans! Damn imperialist Americans! They should really keep their noses out of other people's affairs.

It's probably oil-lust again. They should be more like France and China- they would never lie about an international crisis for oil. I mean, they're the ones who hold huge oil claims in the region, and you don't see them going around declaring a genocide. And can't the Americans leave the poor Arab governments alone? They deserve the right to handle their domestic affairs as they see fit, just like everyone else. (Save the United States, of course. They should have to answer to the world community.)

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