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| Biden calls for military force in Darfur | ||
| 2007-04-11 | ||
Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a Democratic presidential candidate, called Wednesday for the use of military force to end the suffering in Darfur. "I would use American force now," Biden said at a hearing before his committee. "I think it's not only time not to take force off the table. I think it's time to put force on the table and use it."
Under U.N.-backed agreements approved last fall, a hybrid force of 22,000 African Union and U.N. peacekeepers are to be deployed in Darfur to protect and provide relief for 2.5 million Darfurians who have been forced from their homes and are now confined to camps. "We must set a hard deadline for Khartoum to accept a hybrid U.N.-AU force," Biden said. The Bush administration has always rejected use of military force in Darfur, partly because of a possible outcry, particularly in Muslim countries about hostile U.S. action in yet another Islamic country on the heels of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. But Plagiarist Joe knows better! Andrew Natsios, the special U.S. envoy to Sudan, said the U.S. has agreed to a request by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon for a two- to four-week delay in imposing unilateral sanctions against Sudan so negotiations can take place on whether Sudan will accept deployment of international peacekeepers for Darfur. Natsios said the U.S. is contemplating sanctions against 29 Sudanese companies. He said they are the type of sanctions that have been imposed with some success against Iran and North Korea. If the sanctions are applied on the Sudanese companies, he said, they could lead to the paralysis of some of their operations. Sudan has an economy? Who knew? "It will have an affect on the economy," Natsios said in testimony to the committee. Biden, of Delaware, and other senators expressed impatience with the lack of progress on Darfur four years after civil strife broke out between Arab and black tribes in the western Sudanese region. Sudan's government has agreed to the initial stages of the proposed deployment. But President Omar al-Bashir has rejected full deployment, concerned that Sudanese sovereignty will be violated and the troops will arrest Sudanese officials suspected of authorizing war crimes. | ||
| Posted by:Brett |
| #9 Send Joe Biden there first! |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-04-11 22:57 |
| #8 nice try, Pappy, but give yourself an O-Club beverage on my acct - just cuz I like you :-)Obama = wrong. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-11 21:49 |
| #7 Frank - Obama? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2007-04-11 21:00 |
| #6 Gives Joe a chance to look like a tough guy, not the limp dick liberal pussy he is... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-04-11 20:31 |
| #5 It'd be great if somebody called Joe on this. How would you use the military Joe? Drop alot of bombs, missles, etc?? Shoot everybody on horseback??? Share your plan Joe. |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2007-04-11 20:08 |
| #4 round of drinks for the RBer who identifies the first person to give this speech. Slow Joe does reruns (of other people), not premieres of speechs |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-11 19:50 |
| #3 The UN is stupid enough to molest African Children? Where the AIDS rate is 80%? Sounds like a self-curing problem. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-04-11 18:37 |
| #2 and by the way why not ask your buddies at the UN too quit molesting the children in africa and elsewhere and do it themselves or how about the african union , oh never mind it's a piece of shit too |
| Posted by: sinse 2007-04-11 18:18 |
| #1 i bet he didn't want too use force against saddam for the suffering he caused though did he.down here in GA we call that a hypocrite |
| Posted by: sinse 2007-04-11 18:16 |