Nancy Pelosi: “how many times can people say, ``Never again,'' and then proceed to observe the systematic elimination of a people, of…”

“how many times can people say, ``Never again,'' and then proceed to observe the systematic elimination of a people, of genocide? When it happened in Rwanda, we were shocked, horrified. While it was happening and after it happened, we all examined our consciences and said, how could we have let that happen? Never again. That had been said after Bosnia; of course, after the Holocaust, which was the ultimate, of course, genocide. So here we are with a very well-documented genocide where the people of the world are appalled by it. There is great sadness about the loss of life and displacement of people, much dismay about the fact that the humanitarian assistance cannot be delivered. In fact, some of the humanitarian deliverers of that aid are being killed in the Sudan and Darfur region now. And yet, for some reason, as a country, as a world, we seem incapable of taking the necessary action. I want to commend Donald Payne for his tremendous leadership on this important issue. With that leadership, some of us went to the Darfur region earlier in the spring of this year. We saw the children. The little ones still sort of had a bright spark in their eyes, the little babies, but as the children got a little bit older, you could see that pall come over them.”