[Bahbah]

if it came to the floor I couldn't vote against it.

Was it a systematic attempt to exterminate a race of people, do you think. (You know I'm not being snotty, but truly asking what you think.)

[SJackson]

Yes. That’s the way Ambassador Morgenthau, and I believe his successor, described it. The extermination of a race, today we’d say religion. I accept his opionion.

[dervish]

Not according to the foremost historian of our times of the near East, Bernard Lewis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCYz3IigNE0

What happened in Rwanda and is happening in Sudan are more accurately called Genocide.

What you have here is a rewriting of history and a moral equivalency most often seen on the left.