Political Quotes

“I rise today to come to the floor, as I have done many times before, to speak on the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. I keep coming because at the very least, I want to do that, to keep speaking out. But this Senator, this Congress, this country, and the world must all do more. None of us have done enough. Last fall, U.S. Special Envoy to Darfur Andrew Natsios declared that on January 1, 2007, the United States would launch a forceful ``plan B,'' as he called it, if Sudan did not accept the joint United Nations- African Union peacekeeping mission that is desperately needed in Darfur. As described in the Washington Post, plan B was to include aggressive economic measures against Sudan. Today is February 16. There are only a handful of U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur. Still no sign of plan B, other than four U.S. Army colonels who have been stationed along the Chad-Sudan border. Last week, according to a student publication at Georgetown University and other news sources, Ambassador Andrew Natsios told a student audience that genocide was no longer taking place in Darfur. He was quoted as saying: The term genocide is counter to the facts of what is really occurring in Darfur. I understand it is possible to get entangled in words and semantics in the definition of ``genocide,'' but I was truly surprised to read this statement from Ambassador Natsios.…”