Anyone that is opposed to the Iraq war, would you support going into Darfur?

Question

Should we not finish the mission in Iraq first? If not, why should we get involved in another muslim civil war? Why move the battlefield? Do you realize that when we move our troops anywhere in the world now, the insurgent terrorist are sure to follow? What is the National security issue for the United States in Darfur? Is it because one is in the mid east, and one is in Africa? Do you remember the last time America tried to help out in Africa? I do. What has Africa done to help Africa?

If you are so willing to help Darfur, why are you still here?

Hey spicoli put down the bong.

The conflict began in July 2003. Unlike in the Second Sudanese Civil War, which was fought between the primarily Muslim north and Christian and Animist south, in Darfur most of the residents are Muslim, as are the Janjaweed

Alessa atleast you have put your money where your mouth is at! Congratulations!

African nations have not stepped up to help! The UN has not stepped up to help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_Peace_and_Accountability_Act

No resources to exploit?
In signing the DPAA, Bush also issued Executive Order 13412 strengthening some sanctions on the government of Sudan but loosening restrictions on Southern Sudan.
In his letter to the Speaker of the House and the United States Senate, Bush wrote:
Pursuant to IEEPA and the NEA, I determined that the Government of Sudan continues to implement policies and actions that violate human rights, in particular with respect to the conflict in Darfur, where the Government of Sudan exercises administrative and legal authority and pervasive practical influence, and that the Government of Sudan has a pervasive role in the petroleum and petrochemical industries in Sudan.In light of these determinations, and in order to reconcile sections 7 and 8 of the DPAA, I issued this order to continue the country wide blocking of the Government of Sudan's property and to prohibit transactions relating to the petroleum and petrochemical industries in Sudan.

Answer 1

America won't help Darfur, they have no resources for us to exploit! Yes, let's finish the war in Iraq, that'll be what, another 5, 10 years? How many more lives? Yes, let's stay, even though they don't want us there. Let's ignore Darfur, why listen to the people that are BEGGING for help, why stop the torture and rapes of children and the ethnic cleansing? What would WE gain? Why go to a country that actually wants and needs our help? Why not for once work TOGETHER with the UN instead of against it? Why not explain to the 5 year old girl who has just been gang raped after seeing her entire family murdered that we can't help her because Africa has nothing to give us? Yes you've made some good points.
EDIT: THE TRUTH HURTS

BTW I may not have gone to Darfur, but I have donated money clothing and petitioned our government for help and I am ashamed for not doing more.

Answer 2

lots of the folk maximum disillusioned at Bush on no account raised a peep approximately Clinton's extra huge and much less mandatory interventions (Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, "operation wasteland fox", etc.) it relatively is by using the fact area of the contest to Bush has in simple terms been bare partisanship - attacking Bush for doing precisely what a Democrat President could do in the comparable concern. whilst the (Clinton-appointed) CIA chief guideline suggested it became a 'slam dunk' that Saddam became hiding his WMDs, Bush felt he had to press the project and depose him. on the time, each and all of the Senate Democrats talked of the weapons Saddam Hussein held and what achievable they have been. it relatively is been a effectual yet very disingenuous political play by making use of the democrats to tutor an intelligence errors into an administration's mistake. you're suitable that there became/is a humanitarian ingredient in changing genocidal Saddam with a democratic government. whilst/if Obama sends armed forces forces into foreign places, and squaddies die and are available abode in physique luggage, the comparable people who scream bloody homicide over Iraq would be mute. The tragedy would be that Obama has ALREADY introduced that he will deliver our troops into harms way for reasons which at the instant are not mandatory for our national protection.

Answer 3

Darfur is an international humanitarian issue and should be dealt with by the UN, as Iraq should have been.

"We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different--and perhaps barren--outcome." George H W Bush

Answer 4

Yes, i have opposed the Iraq war since the beginning, Reason one is that Iraq was stable and there is a genocide in darfur right. Iraq main selling point was the WMD's. Two, tens of thousands refuges are in chad right now. Third, Darfur would be a human right policing action with international support, if the President and the Democratic congress put its mind above politics it would be monumental.

Answer 5

At least get your facts straight. Darfur if not a muslim civil war. The muslim's in the north are committing genocide among the black Christians and animists in the south. The two sides are easily distinguished from one another. If you're going to be against something at least make it an educated opinion

Answer 6

Africa was bungled in the European Imperial Age (1830-1870) And it hasn't gotten any better since we've thrown billions of dollars into it. I as pull out of Africa and let all the countries in turmoil set themselves straight. However America has everything to loose in making Africa self sufficient because of the Mercantilism system. So either bomb Africa flat and kill off 50-70% of the population or get out and let it sort itself out so we don't screw it up AGAIN!!!! The west destroyed Africa in the first place.

Answer 7

i think that darfur is a better cause than iraq, however, i don't support the troops going anywhere else for a while. and, when is the last time that american troops rushed to the aid of needy africans??

Answer 8

The US needs to stay out of other people's business and not try to fight their wars for them. We have enough problems at home. GW Bush was the first US President to invade another soverign nation and hopefully the last. God Bless!