Will Bush attack Sudan to give those poor people Freedom?

[opihimoimoi]

The Butcher Leaders are killing their own people. Thousands have died and 3 million at peril. Colin Powell is there now trying to figure out a solution. The genocide is so huge, the burnt out villages can be seen from space. Famine reigns.

Then there is Chad, another basket case of a Nation. Both have inept Leaders. Should Bush attack them too and give the Nation Democracy and the people Freedom?

Of course we should. If we can do it to Iraq, we can do it for Sudan and Chad.

What say the Pubs and Bush??

[Momof1]

1. Does it have oil?

n/t

Sarcasm off

[opihimoimoi]

3. Ukamillion tons of Sand. There will come a time when our scientists

find ways to use the stuff in our cars as fuel.

I hope.

[AndyTiedye]

2. With What?

Our army is rather busy at the moment.

[opihimoimoi]

5. Call in the "Discharged/activate the Draft". Get the Gurkhas

Get the unemployed, get some help. Perhaps Tonga? or Tuva?

[dudeness]

4. history is against these poor people..

one only has to look at UN/US response to the 100 days of slaughter in Rwanda and its response to Kosovo to see these people will receive little more than lip service..

[opihimoimoi]

6. There will come a time when the shoe is on the other foot.

We cannot let millions just DIE??? Can we?

I thought America was supposed to save these guys like we did Iraq.

[dudeness]

9. these poor people offer no strategic value

to the empire..therefore they are meaningless..that is globalised politics (as you already know)..not well educated enough to provide a cheap labour base..not asset rich to be invaded or supplanted with a puppet government..this the world we all here strive to change..

[kiahzero]

7. If he did, I'd give him a little credit

What happened to "Never again?"

[Sesel]

8. Chad, Sudan and Iraq.

Chad has a very real possibility of becoming the next Iraq. It is very similar in geography and controls a huge oil pipeline that goes from the pumps in Chad to a port in Cameroon. Chad is also currently experiencing a series of low-level uprisings, and President Idriss Déby (who came to power in a coup and regularly fixes elections) represses his people in response. No government in Chadian history (independent in 1960) has controlled the entire country because of the ethnic and religious divide between the north and south. It doesn't help that most of Déby's officials are from his own tribe.

The goal of the US in Sudan would be to split the southern half (the black, animist population; timber) from the northern half (the Arab, Islamic population; oil) to better control it.

[newyawker99]

12. Hi Sesel!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[kdowney]

10. Only if there is oil.

Bush is soooooooooo moral, remember..grrrr.

[opihimoimoi]

11. There is.... some..... but enough......