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08/11/2004: "Sudanese Genocide"

From Command Post,

In July, the US Congress declared the situation in Darfur a “genocide” and threatened sanctions against Sudan.

At least that's a definitive statement, better than The Arab League could muster.

Yet I would not so readily send troops there as I was to Iraq. Oil wealth matters. With oil wealth, the evil murderous bastard Saddam had the potential to project serious mayhem abroad. Impoverished Sudanese murderous bastards don't. That doesn't mean that I like genocide in Sudan or want to see it continue (I don't and I don't). It just means that Saddam had the disposition and potential to hurt me, which gives me some right to preemptively react to his increasing criminal activity.