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Re: APOLOGIES COME CHEAP
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Peter T. Chattaway
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Apr 01, 2004 22:57 PST
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How about that Richard Clarke, eh? Apologizing to America for the
government's failure to prevent 9/11: thanks for that, big guy. But,
if you want an example of a President doing nothing to prevent not
thousands but the best part of a million deaths, how about the Rwandan
genocide? Whether or not the Bush Administration could ever have put
together a few random clues -- an uptick in Arab men taking
flight-school training, etc -- in time to prevent what happened on
September 11th, it's a proven fact that Bill Clinton knew about Rwanda
and did nothing.
Rich Lowry, the esteemed editor of National Review, now adds a further
wrinkle
[http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/04_03_28_corner-archive.asp#028454].
Who was at the center of this shameful episode? Why, none other than
Richard Clarke.
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RWANDA -- CLARKE OBSTRUCTED ACTION [Rich Lowry]
The Clinton administration's conduct during the Rwandan genocide was one
of the more shameful episodes in recent American history, and Dick Clarke
was in the middle of it--playing politics, at least according to this
passage from Samantha Power's excellent book A Problem from Hell:
"At the NSC the person who managed Rwanda policy was not [Tony] Lake but
Richard Clarke, who oversaw peacekeeping policy and for whom the news from
Rwanda only confirmed a deep skepticism about the viability of UN
deployments. Clarke believed that another UN failure could doom relations
between Congress and the United Nations. He also sought to shield the
president from congressional and public criticism. Donald Steinberg
managed the Africa portfolio at the NSC and tried to look out for the
dying Rwandans, but he was not an experienced in-fighter, and, colleagues
say, he 'never won a single argument' with Clarke."
Posted at 04:51 PM
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http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/fergal_keane/story.jsp?story=505435
The shocking story of Richard Clarke and the US failure to stop genocide
in Rwanda
He was a significant actor in deciding the international response to the
biggest genocide since the Holocaust
Fergal Keane
27 March 2004
Some people become famous for the wrong reason. Richard Clarke, the man
currently tormenting President Bush over the Iraq war, is one of them. He
has become a poster boy for opponents of the war, largely because of his
book denouncing George Bush.
Article Length: 1126 words (approx.)
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- pet-@chattaway.com ---
Nothing tells memories from ordinary moments; only afterwards do they
claim remembrance, on account of their scars. -- Chris Marker, La Jetee
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