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Karmadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 08:46 PM
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Hey! Here's more starving people for the Republicans to save.
Quick! Let's get moving with the necessary legislation to bring this barbarism to an end. Shouldn't take more than a day or two if last week is any indication.

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=282042005

Starvation death toll up

THE United Nations now estimates more than 180,000 people have died in Sudan’s Darfur from hunger and disease in the past 18 months.

Emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland said today the death toll did not include people killed during ongoing violence in Sudan’s arid western region.

more...
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 08:48 PM
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1. but wait...
they're not white or christian.
Screw 'em! :eyes:
</Bush mode>
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 08:49 PM
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2. that's not a culture of life
that's a culture of Africans
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 08:49 PM
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3. Now, why would we care about them unless...
they were white, middle class and there was some political payoff. Come on, * does nothing 'because it is the right thing to do.
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cdb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 08:52 PM
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4. Oh, no.
We can't save those people. They are Africans, and even worse, Negroes.

We can't intervene in the affairs of another nation, and besides, theres no oil there, right?
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Snap Donating Member (361 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 08:54 PM
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5. GWB Hisself
Take'n the "O" out of country.
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illflem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 08:59 PM
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6. Maybe the UN should put the people in Darfur
on feeding tubes, then pull them out so the republicans will come a running.
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Karmadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:18 AM
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7. Kick
n/t
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