President Again Ignores Darfur Genocide in 'State of the Union'

"Africa Action today condemned the failure of President Bush to mention the Darfur genocide in his ‘State of the Union’ address for the second year, even as his Administration acknowledges that this crime against humanity continues in western Sudan. In a speech that stressed the need for the U.S. to engage with the world, to reject "isolationism" and to confront "tyranny" and "evil", Africa Action emphasized that the failure of the President to comment on the Darfur genocide and to identify a plan to stop it contradicts these themes and reveals an unacceptable lack of commitment to new action on this crisis."

To be fair, they really don't have much for our corporations to exploit, so we can't expect our leader to get all honorable and do the right thing, just because it's the right thing. There would have to be billions in profits for that to happen, and apparently there's none to be found there.

Kinda calls into question our noble effort in Iraq. If, in failing to find WMD that he knew didn't exist, his fallback excuse was to liberate Iraqis from tyranny, then why not take action here? Why are we so forgiving of the hypocracy of our own leadership? You know as well as I do if they were a major oil producer, we would've destroyed half the population ourselves, to make the place safe for economic exploitation.

Funny how we only "save" people if they own valuable realestate.