Clarke Hasn't Apologized for Rwandan Genocide?

News Max.com ^ | 4/04/2004 | NA

[dvan]

A former intelligence official that worked in the U.S. government during the Clinton years tells NewsMax that though the Rwandan genocide of the '90s was the subject of headlines blazing the word "genocide" throughout the world, U.S. officials were not allowed to use the "G" word.

The source told us that it was Richard Clarke's office at the National Security Council who decided in October of 1993 not to back up the Rwanda peace plan with adequate UN troops.

Then, in the spring of 1994, Clarke - Special Assistant to the President for Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs from 1993 to 1997 -- and Madeline Albright decided to allow the bloodshed to continue because of growing Congressional criticism on peacekeeping policy.

"They decided to hang the Rwandans out to dry because they feared losing points at home if they expanded peacekeeping further or more U.S. troops died," our source told us.

"Later, when the French tried to send troops after fighting broke out, Albright again tried to block sending in troops."

Though Albright later claimed that the administration did not understand how bad the situation was and that it happened too fast to react to, our source said the Clinton administration had warnings about the genocide in February of 1994.

Also, the Rwandan killings occurred over a 100-day period.

It was Clarke who was coordinating Clinton peacekeeping policy in late 1993 and throughout 1994. And Clarke was responsible for formulating the U.S. response, our source said.

"Their strategy at the time was to fall back on their flawed peacekeeping policy until after the November 1994 elections."

And in this passage from her book "A Problem from Hell," Samantha Power writes, "At the NSC the person who managed Rwanda policy was ... Richard Clarke, who oversaw peacekeeping policy ... 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."

We're not holding our breath waiting for Clarke to say he's sorry for failing the Rwandans.

[dvan]

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[samtheman]

Even Madeleine HalfBright tried to talk some sense, at least once, in a phone call to Clarke that she placed from the UN.

Clarke basically told her to shut the ef up and do what she's told.

[S.O.S121.500]

Have it on good authority that he is to apologize for the mishap at the Little Big Horn.......

[Squawk 8888]

Though Albright later claimed that the administration did not understand how bad the situation was and that it happened too fast to react to, our source said the Clinton administration had warnings about the genocide in February of 1994.

And the UN Security Council was warned even earlier that that so the Administration had to have known. I wouldn't be surprised if Clarke had a hand in ordering General Dallaire to stand down when the killing started.