Darfur? Where's McCain? Bush?

When looking at the article below, one thing stands out. Where is the US? Or where is Prez. George Bush? In places like Darfur he’s like the character in the old “Where’s Waldo” books. He only shows up when there are resources to fight over. He intended predisesor, John McCain is the same way. If there are no resources, oil, land, needed resources, there is no interest. Throught out the article, the US and it’s leaders are missing. Darfur has mostly starving, sick and dying people. No oil or furtile land to fight for. So unlike Zimbabwe – on this issue – the US is not there.

Yahoo News
Sudanese president charged with genocide in Darfur

By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press Writer
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed genocide charges Monday against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, accusing him of masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in Darfur with a campaign of murder, rape and deportation.
The filing marked the first time prosecutors at the world's first permanent, global war crimes court have issued charges against a sitting head of state, but al-Bashir is unlikely to be sent to The Hague any time soon. Sudan rejects the court's jurisdiction, and senior Sudanese officials said the prosecutor was politically motivated to file the charges.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked a three-judge panel at the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for al-Bashir to prevent the slow deaths of some 2.5 million people forced from their homes in Darfur and still under attack from government-backed janjaweed militia.
"Genocide is a crime of intention — we don't need to wait until these 2.5 million die," he told The Associated Press.
"The genocide is ongoing," he added, saying systematic rape was a key element of the campaign. "Seventy-year-old women, 6-year-old girls are raped," he said.
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This is just one more example of the hippocracy of the US’s foreign policy – intervention for oil, farmable land and other resources, while ignoring large scale massacres of poor people.


"I see protests, but where is McCain? Where is the Prez?"

"We’re too busy planning to bomb bomb bomb Iran."