Many thanks
Apr 25th, 2004 by jimmoore
Many many warm thanks to those of you who have linked to Joanne Cipolla Moore’s Passion of the Present
and/or are helping focus attention on stopping the genocide in Sudan.
Ingrid Jones
There are at least five things we bloggers can do to help:-
[read the five things]
I’ve submitted this news to The World Star Gazette - USA and pinging
here - via Technorati - some of the bloggers that I read regularly and
who I know care about genocide and world politics..[the names of 15
bloggers follow]
Betsy Devine
Mass graves in Bosnia, Rwanda, and elsewhere may well be monuments to pious treaties nobody wants to live up to. .
..Three cheers for Ambassador Williamson! I haven’t agreed with the
Bush administration on many issues, but they seem to be on the side of
the angels in this one.
and Universal Hub picked up and reprinted much of Betsy’s post..
Steve’s No Direction
A decade ago, we all let down the people of Rwanda and 800,000 died.
Can this be stopped now? It appears the UN is being especially weak
here, and that the Bush Administration is actually not quite so bad
(though “not quite so bad” is a relative term). Passion of the Present
is another good place to start with helpful links you can use to find
your representative’s contact information, phone numbers, places to
donate, etc. If you do nothing else, watch this video to see what the situation is like.
To my friends who support the President…
Here’s the text of an email I just sent off to my friend, Red Sox-fan Dan Nova:
Remember our discussion about Rwanda? Remember how we
discussed how Clinton went into Bosnia to stop the genocide there?
Remember your assertion that, despite the obvious lack of imminent
threat to our national security, the war in Iraq was justified on the
basis of stopping horrible crimes. So why aren’t we at war with Sudan?
Remember too that it was Sudan, and not Iraq, that gave Osama Bin
Laden sanctuary when he was kicked out of Saudi Arabia. And it was
Sudan that, in the name of Islamic Fundamentalism, that is actively
engaged in the genocide of Christians. And it is Sudan that condones
and profits from slavery (Yes. That fact is well documented.)
If Americans boys and girls (let’s face it, that’s who’s doing the dying and getting their limbs blown off) are going to be put in harm’s way, if we’re going to reinstate the draft and threaten the lives of my children as well as yours, shouldn’t they be going after the really, really bad guys?