Author Topic: google earth highlights attrocities in darfur (Read 2522 times)

JB88 · « **on:** April 12, 2007, 03:30:15 AM »

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amazing.

would love to see more technologies being applied this way.

Pooh21 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 12, 2007, 04:58:56 AM »

US holocaust museum? How many Americans were killed anyway? Enough to warrant their own museum?

Shifty · « **Reply #2 on:** April 12, 2007, 07:43:49 AM »

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US holocaust museum? How many Americans were killed anyway? Enough to warrant their own museum?

Don't be so quick to jump to conclusions. It's not a museum dedicated to Americans, it's dedicated to all the Holocaust victims. You've got a point though, maybe it would be more appropiate in the Fatherland.

lazs2 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 12, 2007, 08:05:59 AM »

If we aren't going to do anything then why even look?

Sending letters to the UN and asking for them to send a strongly worded letter is nothing...

If we send soldiers.. half the Americans will get bored and angry if we don't "win" after 3 years and beg us to come home saying that the warlords were not such bad guys in the first place.

lazs

Viking · « **Reply #4 on:** April 12, 2007, 08:24:25 AM »

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Don't be so quick to jump to conclusions. It's not a museum dedicated to Americans, it's dedicated to all the Holocaust victims. You've got a point though, maybe it would be more appropiate in the Fatherland.

There are numerous Holocaust museums and memorials in the "Fatherland" ... and Austria and Poland etc...

Shifty · « **Reply #5 on:** April 12, 2007, 09:22:22 AM »

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There are numerous Holocaust museums and memorials in the "Fatherland" ... and Austria and Poland etc...

There should be.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #6 on:** April 12, 2007, 09:49:47 AM »

The UN doesn't care.

Viking · « **Reply #7 on:** April 12, 2007, 09:50:58 AM »

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Originally posted by Shifty
There should be.

Why?

Viking · « **Reply #8 on:** April 12, 2007, 09:52:29 AM »

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The UN doesn't care.

Why should they? There's no oil there.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #9 on:** April 12, 2007, 10:01:21 AM »

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Why should they? There's no oil for food program there.

Fixed your post above

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will impose tough new measures against Sudan, likely within days, to try to force it to change course on Darfur and aims to pressure Khartoum militarily by helping rebuild forces in the south, U.S. officials said.

U.S. State Department, Defence, Treasury and other U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the goal was to "tighten the screws" on President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and have him accept an international force in the vast western province.

A White House announcement on sanctions and a further limit on dollar transactions was expected very soon, a U.S. State Department official said.

http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Officials_say_U_S_to_unveil_sanctions_over_Darfur.html?siteSect=143&sid=7670590&cKey=1175194389000

Shifty · « **Reply #10 on:** April 12, 2007, 10:01:31 AM »

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Originally posted by Viking
Why?

To honor the victims, and to remind the people living there today.

Viking · « **Reply #11 on:** April 12, 2007, 11:08:39 AM »

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will impose tough new measures against Sudan, likely within days, to try to force it to change course on Darfur and aims to pressure Khartoum militarily by helping rebuild forces in the south, U.S. officials said.

U.S. State Department, Defence, Treasury and other U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the goal was to "tighten the screws" on President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and have him accept an international force in the vast western province.

A White House announcement on sanctions and a further limit on dollar transactions was expected very soon, a U.S. State Department official said.

So basically you sent them a harshly worded letter. How UN of you

Ripsnort · « **Reply #12 on:** April 12, 2007, 11:15:15 AM »

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So basically you sent them a harshly worded letter. How UN of you

Its better than what the UN has done.

Viking · « **Reply #13 on:** April 12, 2007, 11:18:50 AM »

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To honor the victims, and to remind the people living there today.

I agree, and the Germans have done that. Now if this kind of morality were to extend beyond the borders of Germany to say … the United States of America, wouldn’t one expect to see similar memorials of the various indigenous peoples that were all but exterminated? And there are such memorials! However, unlike in the US, what you don’t find in Germany are memorials of the criminals that perpetrated the slaughter. So while the SS bastards get no statues or memorials, American butchers like Custer do.

So before you point the finger at the Germans, check your own history.

Viking · « **Reply #14 on:** April 12, 2007, 11:20:55 AM »

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Its better than what the UN has done.

You mean the the nothing the US has done is better than the nothing the UN has done? I beg to differ.