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(so I got a form mail from Don Cheadle and John Prendergast at darfur@mail.democracyinaction.org asking me to sign a petition to Prez. Bush urging him toward action on Darfur... on the site to which I was redirected I was asked to edit the text of the form letter before sending it off to the White House. I did:)

Dear Mr. President,

Sudanese President al-Bashir continues to ignore diplomatic efforts to pressure him to end the genocide in Darfur. More than 400,000 Darfurians have already lost their lives and over 2.5 million have been displaced.

In case you were asleep, drunk, coked out, or have received contraindicative reports directly from "reliable British sources" or maybe God, that's on par with what we helped Saddam Hussein do to the Kurds of Iraq (and perhaps also on par with what we did and continue to do to the Iraqi people).

In your speech on April 18, you promised tough sanctions and punitive actions targeted at the Sudanese government if they continue to obstruct the international community's efforts to bring peace and protection to Darfur. You said, "if President al-Bashir does not meet his obligations to the United States of America, we'll act."

I assumed at the time you meant we'd take to the stage with a zany spoof of the Janjaweed's unchecked rape and murder of the rustic population of Darfur, with you in the lead (we all know how talented a comedian you are from your various addresses to the U.S. public--and the deadpan! my goodness! Bob Newhart would be proud). But Messrs. Cheadle and Prendergast here assure me that you meant we would actually intervene in the atrocities going on in Darfur. I misheard them at first and thought they said you would "Get some o'dat dark meat yoself" but they maintain strenuously the term was "intervene" and that you intended it militarily.

So I guess this means you have either found, or have set Turd Blossom frantically to find, some way to provide additional filthy wealth to your buddies in the big business of warmaking by initiating another military action against Sudan. (Hey, wasn't that guy, al-Bashir, in charge of planning 9/11? I'm not sure, but by GOD, if anybody can sell that notion, YOU CAN!)

I therefore urge you to remain true to the deadline (omigosh, YES, an actual DEADLINE--be brave, Mr. President, br brave!) that U.S. Special Envoy Andrew Natsios set out when he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 11 that the U.S. would hold off on sanctions at the behest of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon "for 2 to 4 weeks." Plan A – the waiting game – hasn’t worked. It's time for Plan B – one with real consequences for committing atrocities and fueling further war.

Mr. President, I beg you: for once in your life, do something that might give whatever creator you claim to believe in at least a minor second thought about sending you to hell for all eternity for your innumerable crimes against humanity and the planet.

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