Bush honors victims of Rwanda’s genocide

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: MSNBC

KIGALI, Rwanda - President Bush on Tuesday called the 1994 genocide in Rwanda a reminder “That there is evil in the world and evil must be confronted.”

During his five-nation trip of Africa, Bush visited a memorial in Kigali where some remains of more than 250,000 victims of the killings are buried. Over 100 days, roughly 800,000 people were shot, clubbed and hacked to death in frenzied killing led by radial Hutus.

“It’s a moving place. It can’t help but shake your emotions to their very foundation,” Bush said. ‘It reminds me that we must not let these kind of actions take place — and that the people of Rwanda need help to reconcile, to move foward after a brutal period.”

Bush’s visit to the memorial, his first, is part of a six-day trek through Africa. The public mission of his travels is to tout U.S. aid to the continent, preserve his health initiatives in Africa beyond his presidency and cement humanitarianism as a key part of his legacy.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23230719/

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President Bush is presented with flowers upon his arrival at Kigali International Airport on Tuesday.

[Doctor_J]

1. Pathetic loser trying deperately to make a legacy before slithering

from office as the most hated president in history. Darfur, Rwanda, and a bunch of other places he didn't even know existed two weeks ago. What's next - freedom for East Timor?

[acmavm]

2. Crap. Reading this just gave me the creepiest baddest feeling

that I've had in a long time. Here's a guy who's responisble for people dying left and right and he's pretending like he has sympathy for the victim's of murderous thugs like himself. That picture just pisses me off. Why would anyone allow their children to honor such a dirty bastard.

This story just has me so worked up I can't believe it.

[leftchick]

3. all while he continues to commit Genocide in Iraq!

fucking, sickeningly ironic. :puke:

[NikolaC]

7. Exactly

Typical hypocritical crap. I am disgusted also that the leadership of that country not only invited him, but also honored him. Makes me ill.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Beware of Evil Doers. Smirk." - Commander AWOL

[katmondoo]

5. Why do they love him in Kenya?

I do not understand it. What did he do?

[AlertLurker]

6. That ANY US President has the balls to...

EVER visit Rwanda again is just. simply. incredible.

[Virginia Dare]

8. Wow, that's great shrubya...

all except for that pesky humanitarian crisis you caused in Iraq. Oh, and the one million dead people. Oopsie, there goes your legacy again.