BUSH-FINALLY-CRIES OVER GENOCIDE IN DARFUR??? - BULLSHIT!!! - ITS THE OIL STUPID!!!

[kpete]

Bush: Darfur `challenges conscience of the world'

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush ordered new U.S. economic sanctions today to pressure Sudan's government to halt the bloodshed in Darfur that the administration has condemned as genocide.

``I promise this to the people of Darfur: the United States will not avert our eyes from a crisis that challenges the conscience of the world,'' the president said.

``For too long the people of Darfur have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the bombing, murder and rape of innocent civilians,'' the president said. ``My administration has called these actions by their rightful name: genocide.

``The world has a responsibility to put an end to it,'' Bush said.

http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2007/05/29/latest_news/doc465c2570ec646453016835.txt

Darfur: Forget genocide, there's oil

By F William Engdahl


To paraphrase the famous quip during the 1992 US presidential debates, when an unknown William Jefferson Clinton told then-president George Herbert Walker Bush, "It's the economy, stupid," the present concern of the current Washington administration over Darfur in southern Sudan is not, if we look closely, genuine concern over genocide against the peoples in that poorest of poor part of a forsaken section of Africa.

No. "It's the oil, stupid."



The case of Darfur, a forbidding piece of sun-parched real estate

in the southern part of Sudan, illustrates the new Cold War over oil, where the dramatic rise in China's oil demand to fuel its booming growth has led Beijing to embark on an aggressive policy of - ironically - dollar diplomacy. With its more than US$1.2 trillion in mainly US dollar reserves at the Peoples' National Bank of China, Beijing is engaging in active petroleum geopolitics. Africa is a major focus, and in Africa, the central region between Sudan and Chad is a priority.

This is defining a major new front in what, since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, is a new Cold War between Washington and Beijing over control of major oil sources. So far Beijing has played its cards a bit more cleverly than Washington. Darfur is a major battleground in this high-stakes contest for oil control.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/IE25Cb04.html
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL34003.pdf

[A HERETIC I AM]

1. Let China sort them out.

I am not being callous by any stretch. The genocide is horrific and needs to be stopped post haste. But dammit, let the Chinese do it. They are the ones with the largest percentage of the leases, let them stop the killing so they can get the oil out of the ground safely. After all, they have a vested interest.

What would be the US response to such a move i wonder. If China sent 300,000 troops to North Eastern Africa to quell violence, what would GW have to say about it?

It seems it is always either us, the French, the Brits or the UN that sends troops into situations like Darfur. Never the Chinese.


HMMMM

[madrchsod]

2. the chinese do not care who lives or dies

the only thing the chinese are afraid of is the boycott of the olympic games by the usa -ya right or several major european countries-there`s a better chance of that.

yes it`s all about oil and this time it`s china who are the bad guys

[iamjoy]

3. Part of the Reason I am Boycotting

I am all but boycotting any product I know is made in China.

My only exception is shoes. I have a hard enough time, when I go shoe shopping I end up trying on 40 - 50 pairs before I find one I like that fits. And I don't have that many pairs, but some shoes just don't go with certain outfits.

[madrchsod]

4. my daughter bought a pair of shoes from vicky`s secret

and the smell from the shoes just about knocked me out. i have no idea what chemicals were leaching from those shoes..needless to say they are going back with a warning..

yes it`s dam near impossible to find men or womens shoes that are not made in china