[Anyone] stay and slay prez

Thu Oct 26 19:27:37 MDT 2006

A recent Organization for African Unity report shows that the Clinton 
administration did nothing to stop the genocide of 500,000 to 800,000 
Rwandans, even though it knew full well the extent of the mass murders.

In March of 1998, Clinton visited Rwanda and apologized. "All over the 
world," he said, "there were people like me sitting in offices who did not 
fully appreciate the depth and speed with which you were being engulfed by 
this unimaginable terror." The United States and the international community 
had not responded swiftly enough, he admitted, declaring "Never again." This 
was a clasic Clinton apology, for he found a way to excuse his lack of 
action: We didn't do anything to stop the genocide, but we didn't know a 
horrific nightmare was happening.

Clinton was prevaricating -- and lying about genocide is bit more outrageous 
than lying about sex. The OAU report refers to the well-known fax that 
Dallaire sent the UN three months before the genocide began. In that 
dispatch, Dallaire warned an extermination campaign was coming. A few weeks 
later, the report notes, "Human Rights Watch was told that a US government 
intelligence analyst had estimated that if conflict was renewed in Rwanda, 
the worst-case scenario would involve one-half million people dying.

Once the insane killing was under way, information and news of the genocide 
flowed to Washington and the West. "There was," the OAU report asserts, "no 
issue of insufficient information in the US. Human Rights Watch and the US 
Committee for Refugees, both of whom had first-hand knowledge from within 
Rwanda, persistently held public briefings and issued regular updates on the 
course of events. That it was a genocide was beyond question. Within two 
weeks, the International Committee of the Red Cross estimated that perhaps 
hundreds of thousands were already dead." The report challenges Clinton 
directly: "President Clinton insists that his failure was a function of 
ignorace. The facts show, however, that the American government knew 
precisely what was happening ... But domestic politics took priority over 
the lives of helpless Africans." They are calling Clinton a liar -- and a 
political coward.

Not for all. Clinton pushed silence at the time of the genocide, and Gore, 
Albright and other Clintonites tolerated that silence. If the history books 
do register Clinton as one of the "greatest," it will be an insult to the 
memory of hundreds of thousands slaughtered Rwandans.

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