Interview:Madeleine Albright["Ghosts of Rwanda"]

PBS ^ | April 1, 2004 | FRONTLINE

[Lady In Blue]

Thanks for the info! That is funny! A caller on Hannity's radio show mentioned that they had put a big picture of his face on the screen.

[Lady In Blue]

Isn't that something?! it sure does sound like a bunch of huey!

[CyberAnt]

I'm assuming Clarke would not appear because it was such a condemnation of the Clintons and of Clarke's staff.

This is very good for the Bush admin.

[cripplecreek]

That Clinton legacy just keeps on giving.

[Lady In Blue]

Do you think they'll repeat this?

[Lady In Blue]

I seem to remember somebody doing all of the bruhaha this past week saying something to the effect that the Clinton administration,at one point,wanted to get rid of Clarke.Can anybody confirm?

[NormsRevenge]

What can I say.. lol..

I was working out on the FReepathon thread on the laptop and it was either give up the laptop or Extreme makeovers. ;-)

This doc will be rerun on the other 2 local PBS stations in the Bay area anyway, and I am sure it will be run again on all the pBS stations, they usually do.

[Zack Nguyen]

These people are so heartbroken that we didn't stop the Rwanda massacre, but none of them seem to care about the hundreds of thousands of people Hussein killed. Invading Iraq was apparently unjust.

[wagglebee]

during the early weeks of the killing what was happening in Rwanda "was not clear. … For whatever reason, the system did not manage to push the information up high enough to people making decisions." This is Clintonspeak for they don't really care and it might interfere with a "legacy" or checking out the newest interns.

[CyberAnt]

And .. it totally explains why the dems were so against Bush doing anything in Iraq without the "support" of the UN.

And .. to me it totally proves what cowards the dems are; including Kofi and the UN.

[Lady In Blue]

You're welcome,deport.You're right and it's the part that we don't know about which is sometimes the worse.

[Lady In Blue]

Do you think they'll repeat it over the weekend? I guess I'll have to break down and buy a newspaper for a change?

[Lady In Blue]

Agreed!

[kylaka]

You can Check PBS's listings for Frontline. They generally rebrodcast within a few days if it new and again in 6 weeks.
It was sickening, made more so with the knowedge that Billy Boy was more preoccupied with getting his knob polished, and their reluctance to have a repeat of Somalia. The interviews with Kofi Annan (sp?) were revealing. He sounded more like a DNC operative than the U.N. section chief he was at the time.

[Lady In Blue]

The Clinton Administration was incompetant,by and large, from to to bottom.Just my opinion.

[Spruce]

I cannot wait for Ms. Rice to go pop a few balloons next week. Her testimony will expose the x42 gang for the stuffed-suits they were.

[cavtrooper21]

Another litttle item.
The Belgians wanted out beacuse the UN would not let them go "weapons free" when the were attacked by the "poor, peace loving, misunderstood and oppressed" panga wielding militias. The Belgian troops were some of the best there, members of their Airborne Regiment.
Not troops likely to take having seven of their number butchered because of some UN "no fire rule" lightly.

[arglebarglewastestime]

Actually, one intern personally tried to deliver the message to Billy the C., but all he heard was mfff, mffm, fmmm, mmff...,

[TomGuy]

Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda

PBS website and some video.

[Felis_irritable]

I dragged out my copy of Samantha Powers's "A Problem From Hell" to refresh my CRS memory. Clarke comes off poorly in it, in my opinion. Examples:

"Clarke underestimated the deterrent effect that Dallaire's very few peacekeepers were having...The Hutu were generally reluctant to massacre large groups of Tutsi if foreigners (armed or unarmed) were present...

"...Clarke managed production of PDD-25...In the words of Representative David Obey of Wisconsin, the restrictive checklist tried to satisfy the American desire for "zero degree of involvement, and zero degree of risk, and zero degree of pain and confusion.""

Seems to me a good thing that he left - better late than never.