Quote Originally Posted by BlueCat
Well Psycho as I said before ALL Governments are quilty....BUT I don't vote in France. I am interested in what I can change.

U.S. interest in Sudan


Many people, especially children, have died in Sudan of totally preventable and treatable diseases because of a U.S. cruise missile attack, ordered by President Bill Clinton on Aug. 20, 1998, on the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum. This plant, which had produced cheap medications for treating malaria and tuberculosis, provided 60 percent of the available medicine in Sudan.
On August 20, 1998, the factory was destroyed in cruise missile strikes launched by the United States in retaliation for the August 7 truck bomb attacks on its embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya (see: 1998 U.S. embassy bombings). The administration of President Bill Clinton justified the attacks, dubbed Operation Infinite Reach, on the grounds that the al-Shifa plant was involved in producing chemical weapons and had ties with the violent Islamist al Qaeda group of Osama bin Laden, which was believed to be behind the embassy bombings. The August 20 U.S. action also hit al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, to where bin Laden had moved following his May 1996 expulsion from Sudan.


The bombing of the al-Shifa factory resurfaced in the news in April, 2006 due to the firing of former CIA analyst Mary O'Neil McCarthy. McCarthy was against the bombing of the factory in 1998, a fact that was published in the New York Times soon after her arrest. However, despite the claims by the government of Sudan that the factory produced only pharmaceuticals, McCarthy came to the view the plant was used in chemical weapons development. Thomas Joscelyn quotes Daniel Benjamin, a former NSC staffer:

The report of the 9/11 Commission notes that the National Security staff reviewed the intelligence in April 2000 and concluded that the CIA's assessment of its intelligence on bin Laden and al-Shifa had been valid; the memo to Clinton on this was cosigned by Richard Clarke and Mary McCarthy, the NSC senior director for intelligence programs, who opposed the bombing of al-Shifa in 1998. The report also notes that in their testimony before the commission, Al Gore, Sandy Berger, George Tenet, and Richard Clarke all stood by the decision to bomb al-Shifa. [13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shif...utical_factory

Guess we could have let Chirac and friends just use chemical weapons on the southern folk..........

Ya know, I spent some jail time with a dude from Sudan....showed me the scars across his chest/stomach where he was ripped with a machine gun. Thats why his folks shipped him to the U.S. He told me that this has been an ongoing conflict between the tribes for over 40 years now. A vicious cycle as he put it........the parents ship their kids off to the U.S./Europe for a better life.......the kids grow, get educated, make money, ship funds to home to help their families, then the familily/tribe uses the cash to buy more guns to kill the opposing tribe.

Between that and the French connection.......it would be best for us just to let Europe/FRANCE deal with this one. We could do some food drops though.....I was all for the air support.

Have a good one!:jointsmile: