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get in a GOOD mention of Bill Clinton: the guy who did NOTHING while this massacre was going on.

I wouldn't blame Clinton so much on this. Kofi Anan was head of UN peacekeeping there with troops on the ground and ordered them to stand by and watch, even when they started killing his own troops. His role in the mess seems to have been cleaned up in the official and mass media versions.

I guess we will have to disagree.

I remember reading the Times back when this was going on and incredulous that the leader of the free world did NOTHING while this was happening. The UN can pound sand--I have no connection to them and detest Kofi Anan. Clinton was president of this great country which I am part of.

Here is what Gourevitch had to say about Clinton and the Cleaning Lady's complicity in Rwanda. From the PBS Frontline web site:

What was the Clinton's administration's policy? How was it implemented through Madeline Albright?

Pretty much as soon as the ten Belgian blue helmets had been killed, the debate became: Should we beef up the U.N. force, or should we cut it back? The Clinton administration--and one should always remember that in the United Nations Security Council, the United States is essentially the 800-pound gorilla that sits where it wants and can bend others to its will. It's the great power. The Clinton administration's policy was, "Let's withdraw altogether. Let's get out of Rwanda. Leave it to its fate." The United States ambassador to the United Nations at that time was then Madeline Albright. And it was she who was in the wretched position of having to represent this position to the Security Council, and who did so very effectively.

Clinton and Albright have the blood of a million Rwandans on their hands.

Clinton had the almighty gall to fly over there on his round the world victory lap as he left office. He landed (left Air Force One's engines running, if you please), and gave a speech at the airport in which he said that 'Golly, nobody told me you all were having a holocaust over here. I had no idea half a million of you were being butchered. If I'd only known..." Sigh, looks sorrowful, bites lip. You get the picture. Absolutely disgusting.