Tampa Tribune - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME
"Iraq and Jordan engaged in a tit-for-tat withdrawal of ambassadors Sunday in a growing dispute over Shiite Muslim claims that Jordan is failing to block terrorists from entering Iraq,”

Not surprising, considering Jordan is 92% Sunni.

CIA World Fact Book - http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/jo.html

Freedom House - http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/freeworld/2003/countryratings/jordan.htm

400,000 people have been killed in the Sudan in government sanctioned murder and rape. Where are the anti war activists? Where are the peace activists protesting the brutal Janjaweed soldiers burning entire villages that house 10's of thousands of people. They are as silent as the millions of people that have been killed in wars they couldnt care less about. A terrorist blows up a car in Iraq and kills 10 and its front page news across the western world, but a janjaweed gunship mows down thousands with anti personel rockets and not a peap is heard. Disgusting.


12. Judge dismisses Agent Orange lawsuit
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Cincinnati Enquirer
"A federal judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed on behalf of some 4 million Vietnamese claiming that U.S. chemical companies committed war crimes by making Ag ent Orange for use during the Vietnam War. U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein disagreed that the allegedly toxic defoliant and similar U.S. herbicides should be considered poisons banned under international rules of war, even though they may have had comparable effects on people and land." (03/10/05)

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AGENT_ORANGE?SITE=OHCIN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Not able to bring a lawsuit up against the murderous government that holds them hostage, Vietnamese people (or rather lawyers, acting on their ‘behalf’) seek to go after easier fish. No peer reviewed scientific study has linked Agent Orange to any adverse health effects, the US veterans that receive benefits for their Agent Orange ‘related’ disorders do so through the VNA, a political organization that insists something is bad about Agent Orange, instead of a scientific one that sets to show it with a modicum of reason. Consider the primary ingredient of Agent Orange, Dioxin, has been called ‘the most deadly substance known to man’ yet with Ukranian president Victor Ushenko was poisoned with a dose 6000 times higher than any human had ever received, his skin got pockmarked. The true transgressor against the Vietnamese people is the government of north Vietnam, which has killed thousands of people since the war, arbitrarily imprisoned people for advocating democracy and human rights, and brutally oppresses nearly every civil liberty the west has yet dreamed up.

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While the alleged peace activists and anti-war protestors decry the deaths caused by the US and the US led coalition in Iraq, no mention is made of the hundreds of thousands dead in the Sudan. In WWII the world stood aghast at the horrors committed by Nazi Germany and cried never again. In Cambodia the world stood by while millions of people were murdered, again it cried “never again” In Rwanda the Tutsis slaughtered the Hutsi by the 10’s of thousands, the UN declared it was not a genocide. The world cried “never again”. Now it happens all over again in the Sudan, the world stands by while another government kills thousands and thousands of people. Burning villages, looting, raping, torturing, smashing babies skulls and mass executions. Where are the peace protestors? Where are the Anti War activists crying for peace in the Sudan? They are as silent as the 400,000 murdered Sudanese people. Why is it that when a large wave kills nearly 300,000 people, the world recoils in horror. But when a government kills that many, it couldn’t bat an eye. Where are the incessant headlines? We read every day “Insurgent bomber Iraq kills 10” but never read “Janjaweed soldiers murder 100’s of men, women and children” There is enough killing for a headline every day, and a Pulitzer prize winning photograph every week. Where are the reporters, where are the newspaper headlines? Where are the narratives detailing the horrific conditions? Where are the documentaries, the local liberal rags screaming to stop the killing. Where are the women’s rights group decrying the deplorable rape gangs, officially sanctioned by the Sudanese Government. They are silent. They are silent because they know that with every cry for justice, they are only crying that WE need to do something about it. The only people that can do anything about it are the same ones they despise. Better to let 100,000’s of thousands die than to have the US military intervening.

Marine Captain in Sudan

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4539140

Former Marine Capt. Brian Steidle has been in the Dafur region of Western Sudan monitoring the humanitarian crisis there for the African Union. In the past 18 months, 180,000 people have died from hunger and disease.

An unknown number of Sudanese have died as a result of the violence, and at the hands of the militia group the Janjaweed, which has carried out a scorched-earth campaign of killing, raping and driving people from their homes. The Janjaweed targets non-Arab villages. There are at least 2 million refugees as a result. Steidle says he has no doubt that what is going on there is genocide

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