Stephanie Tubbs Jones: “I include for the Record from today's Washington Post, October 29, 2007, this first part of the article entitled, ``U.S.…”

“I include for the Record from today's Washington Post, October 29, 2007, this first part of the article entitled, ``U.S. Promises on Darfur Don't Match Actions'' by Michael Abramowitz. In April 2006, a small group of Darfur activists--including evangelical Christians, the representative of a Jewish group and a former Sudanese slave--was ushered into the Roosevelt Room at the White House for a private meeting with President Bush. It was the eve of a major rally on the National Mall, and the president spent more than an hour holding forth, displaying a kind of passion that has led some in the White House to dub him the ``Sudan desk officer.'' Bush insisted there must be consequences for rape and murder, and he called for international troops on the ground to protect innocent Darfuris, according to contemporaneous notes by one of those present. He spoke of ``bringing justice'' to the Janjaweed, the Arab militias that have participated in atrocities that the president has repeatedly described as nothing less than ``genocide.''”