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2005-03-16 Africa: Horn

Over 180,000 Hunger Deaths Reported in Darfur in 18 Months

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Posted by Fred 2005-03-16 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 My opinion FWIIW is the USA should have an Arclight strike against Khartoum every week until this stops.

Posted by phil_b 2005-03-16 7:23:46 AM|| 2005-03-16 7:23:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I think it's worth a lot - works for me. Any troop concentration, any location where the Nazi Arab Leadership is known to be or hang out, and any place or thing they seem to value could be added to the list, as well. Old-fashioned iron-bombs will do - no need to expend the low-collateral / no-collateral damage goodies. Put it on the mission sheet for Noob Bombadiers. Everybody's gotta start somewhere - this would be a good place to earn live-drop experience.

Whack-a-Tard.

Posted by .com 2005-03-16 7:57:59 AM|| 2005-03-16 7:57:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Where is the outcry from Jessie Jackson and Chuck Rangel? Didn't we push for the fluf moops at the UN to determine this to be Genocide so we could take some decisive action. Liberia has 3 million and Sudan has 40 million. Sudan - hot bed of islamofacists and potentially oil production - Liberia has? let's see oh yes ah um wait a minute! blood diamonds! that's the ticket. Way to pick your battles you sorry excuse for African Americans. What the Sudanese are from the wrong coast?

Posted by Rightwing 2005-03-16 8:34:11 AM|| 2005-03-16 8:34:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 It wouldn't be happening if the Palestinian People weren't deprived of their rights.

Posted by gromgorru 2005-03-16 11:08:35 AM|| 2005-03-16 11:08:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Liberia's diamonds are mostly from Sierra Leone, of course. What else does Liberia have? Clear-cut tropical hardwood, going largely to France... Rubber production is pretty well stopped, iron ore production is stopped; but they have lots of ransacked scrap, and a really handy ship registry for firms that don't want to be bothered with safety inspections. There's some commonality among the exports here somewhere . ..

Posted by James 2005-03-16 12:08:47 PM|| [http://www.idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2005-03-16 12:08:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Those damn Joooooos.

The U.N. can't even pass out food.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-03-16 1:19:57 PM|| 2005-03-16 1:19:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Just found an old JNC, whipped out my nice global mission calculator, and should be finished with mission planning in fifteen minutes. Who's going to come by and pick it up? Since the "G" and "H" models can only carry 72 and 68 Mark 82's (500lb) respectively, we'll need eleven flights of three, plus Navy ECM and fighter escort near the drop zone. Recommend staging from Diego Garcia - that cuts it down to two refuelings, one before ingress, one on egress, and minimum time over land. Mission time, 7hr22 minutes, altitude, 42,000ft, airspeed 380kt. I've designated seven boxes, four with revisits. Awaiting the green.

Posted by Old Patriot 2005-03-16 2:17:40 PM|| [http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-03-16 2:17:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 You are a marvel, OP.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-16 2:34:22 PM|| 2005-03-16 2:34:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Is the mission calculator round or long?

Posted by Fr. Kolac 2005-03-16 3:48:30 PM|| 2005-03-16 3:48:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Over 180,000 Hunger Deaths Reported in Darfur in 18 Months

But I thought discussion and consensus was the answer to suffering and untimely death? While these 180,000 died, all the sophisticated, educated and worldly members of the international community were agreeing that it was horrible, just horrible, and that it must not happen. Then they adjourned the meeting and all these people died because the IC would not ACT to stop it.

The leaders in the international community pose as altruists but live like sociopaths.

Posted by Jules 187 2005-03-16 4:02:43 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:02:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 In your very best French accent:

"Well, sniff, it was not quite genocide, you see. This was officially determined and clearly stated, sniff. So after such toils, we broke for lunch."

Posted by .com 2005-03-16 4:13:39 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:13:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 And delivered with all the disinterest of a fat pasha trying to decide between jasmine rice and rice pilaf.

Oh, I don't know should I have this (genocide) or have that (saving the lives of thousands of human beings)? You just wonder if "dead" means anything anymore to anyone. I guess the pile of bodies would be about 1/3 the size of the pro-Lebanon demonstration? Just so our sophisticated friends get a nuanced picture-all those corpses are the price of "international consensus".

Posted by Jules 187 2005-03-16 4:44:41 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:44:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Well Jules, it depends on what you mean by dead, do you perhaps mean defunct? Has been? Less lively? Or a stinking pile of oxidyzing proteins?

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-16 7:43:50 PM|| 2005-03-16 7:43:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 OP,
It has been SO long since I built an 82 - please let me help? I can do high/low drag fins, fore/aft fuzing, even the belly bands for B-52 use. Gimme a call, and I am so THERE.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-03-16 8:27:55 PM|| 2005-03-16 8:27:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Hey! HEY! They can't have a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions until our military unilaterally commits acts of unprovoked aggression against their peace-loving government! I mean, that's what Michael Moore sez!

What's the matter with them?

Posted by Darth VAda 2005-03-16 9:03:14 PM|| 2005-03-16 9:03:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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