Democrats in the news

[Blue Train]

While everyone goes on about Susan Rice and the Clusterfuck that was Benghazi .

The real reason this supporter of war, genocide (in the last decade around 3 million have been killed in Congo), & mass raping shouldn't be the Secretary of State. Of course, it's for these reasons both sides in Congress would want her. She hasn't seen a single war she didn't support, or help start since here time with Clinton....well except to do anything about what was going on in Rwanda. She didn't care that Genocide was going on....she only cared that we didn't call it Genocide.

She is actually a better fit for Secretary of Defense (which also have an opening soon.), D/CIA, or other jobs involving the death of others for a warmonger like her.

M23....they're not just a front for Rwanda, which was once one of her clients. Just google M23 and Susan Rice, or her and Paul Kagame, or African dictators in general.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ecretary-state


P.S. Ironic that yesterday she or someone for her posted on her facebook about it being the 64th Anniversary of Human Rights Day.

[crawjo]

Wow, that's seriously hyperbolic. Calling Rice a supporter of genocide is absurd. Yes, she did not want the U.S. to get involved in Rwanda in 1994, and in that respect she was like every other major Western leader and diplomat at the time. She was 29 years old at the time, so the idea that she was directing U.S. policy in any way is patently absurd. As for the Congo, you have dozens of militia groups engaged in the region, raping and murdering. I think it is seriously oversimplistic to blame this all on Rwanda and on its allies. As long as the FDLR is operating in the Eastern Congo, I'd say that Rwanda has lots of very good reasons to be involved in the region and to back its own proxies. All of which is not to excuse bad behavior, but simply to point out that ANY analysis of the Congolese war that lays most of the blame on one actor is most definitely full of shit.

Also, it's pretty meaningless to say that someone who is involved in African diplomacy supports dictatorships. The vast majority of governments in the region can be said to fit this description. This is the nature of the African post-colonial state.

[Blue Train]

Wow, that's seriously hyperbolic. Calling Rice a supporter of genocide is absurd. Yes, she did not want the U.S. to get involved in Rwanda in 1994, and in that respect she was like every other major Western leader and diplomat at the time. She was 29 years old at the time, so the idea that she was directing U.S. policy in any way is patently absurd. As for the Congo, you have dozens of militia groups engaged in the region, raping and murdering. I think it is seriously oversimplistic to blame this all on Rwanda and on its allies. As long as the FDLR is operating in the Eastern Congo, I'd say that Rwanda has lots of very good reasons to be involved in the region and to back its own proxies. All of which is not to excuse bad behavior, but simply to point out that ANY analysis of the Congolese war that lays most of the blame on one actor is most definitely full of shit.

Yes, there are a lot of countries/groups involved in Congo, but she goes out of her way to protect the main instigators....especially those who have previously paid her millions.

Back it's "proxies"? Not to excuse "bad behavior"? Seriously?

[Blue Train]

Susan Rice and Africa’s Unholy Trinity

http://indepthafrica.com/susan-rice-.../#.UMfAMndnDSt

[crawjo]

Yes, seriously. Any analysis of the Congo that seeks to place a majority of blame on one country is foolish. If you want to get Rwanda to stop backing proxy rebel groups, then you have to get a government in the DRC strong enough to take out the Hutu extremists that are still operating in the Eastern Congo.

There are like 40 rebel groups operating in the Eastern Congo and you are singling out the few that are being supported by Rwanda. Why? The citizens of Goma were probably more at risk AFTER the M23 left the city a couple weeks ago.

[crawjo]

Susan Rice and Africa’s Unholy Trinity

http://indepthafrica.com/susan-rice-.../#.UMfAMndnDSt

Rice’s favorite dictators in Africa are the “Unholy Trinity” — Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and the late Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia — all former rebel leaders who seized power through the barrel of the gun and were later baptized to become the “new breed of African leaders”

This is the sort of lazy analysis that can only come from someone who has another agenda or who doesn't know much about African politics. Find me all the leaders in Africa (especially Central Africa) that didn't gain power "through the gun" and that don't hold onto power largely through the gun. Where are these noble leaders that the U.S. should be supporting? I want to know who they are. Name them. Since the end of colonial rule dictatorship has been about the only "successful" form of government on the continent. And wasn't it Rice who supported the 1996-1997 overthrow of Mobutu, the most notoriously corrupt and brutal dictator in the history of the continent? Yes, it was. So if she just loves dictators so much why didn't she love Mobutu?

Seriously these attacks are really lame.

I mean, really, calling Kagame a part of an "unholy trinity" is just absurd. Right because the Hutu extremists in power prior to 1994 were so much better. Oh, and when he "seized power through the gun" was what brought the Rwandan genocide to an end.