I'm Pissed

Let's take a second and ponder this; Democrats and liberals were upset that Bush only went to the UN twice, once with Colin Powell laying it all out, and Bush personally talking to that congregation of moral virtue. They are wringing their hands because we freed a country that suffered the rape of its women by the sons of Saddam.

With regards to Sudan however, we have deferred to the UN to go in and protect the victims of genocide. Have they accomplished anything? No.

Three months ago, the UN described the situation in Darfur as "the world's worst humanitarian crisis". On my two-day visit, I found that nothing much has changed. The government of Sudan has reneged on its promise to disarm the Janjaweed. Their campaign has the sole objective of eradicating the black tribes and installing the Arabs in their place. If this isn't genocide, then it's difficult to imagine what on earth is.
I have sent a full report to Tony Blair and will ask a question about Darfur in the House of Lords today. My report is a catalogue of systematic violence driven by ethnic hatred and aided by the Sudanese regime. We heard first-hand accounts of the rape of girls as young as 10 and women as old as 80. Men wept as they recounted the humiliations and killings. The report is on the website of the human rights group the Jubilee Campaign, which arranged the visit (www.jubileecampaign.co.uk).
We joined a group of 17 women sitting in the shade of a tree, drinking coffee. Most were widows, and most had also lost fathers, brothers and sons. They need firewood for cooking and grass for their animals, and are thus forced to go beyond the camp. They had all, without exception, been the victims of attack and rape by the Janjaweed. Although they are clearly traumatised by the daily risks they run, they speak philosophically about it: "If our men go out, they die. If we go, we are raped. That's the choice."

Hawry, 35, told us that when her village was attacked, the men "harassed and beat" the women and girls before they rode off. These are euphemisms for rape; in their society, it is an unmentionable subject, bringing shame and humiliation on the victim and her family.
We were told that the "Arabs" carried razor blades and sharp knives to cut open the atrophied vaginas of old women before they raped them. When the Janjaweed had gone, Hawry said, the women abandoned the village. "My family once had 88 head of cattle, but I put one baby around my neck and another child on my back, and I started walking." Her other three children had to walk for the next eight days.

Looks like the UN has failed this "Global Test".