Perhaps, the biggest flop in the Clinton Administration was his failure to STOP the Rwanda Genocide.

Classified papers show Clinton, was aware of ‘final solution’ to eliminate Tutsis. The United States government chose to ignore Rwandan genocide.

According to Rory Carroll, of The Guardian Unlimited publication, President Bill Clinton’s administration knew Rwanda was being engulfed by genocide in April 1994 but buried the information to justify its inaction.

Senior officials privately used the word genocide within 16 days of the start of the killings, but chose not to do so publicly because the president had already decided not to intervene.

Intelligence reports obtained using the US Freedom of Information Act show the cabinet and almost certainly the president had been told of a planned “final solution to eliminate all Tutsis” before the slaughter reached its peak.

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Clinton in Africa [From 18th July] — He sent out the following email to subscribers:

Dear [[First Name]],

Late last night, I arrived in Johannesburg, where I began my six-day tour of Africa to see my Foundation’s efforts firsthand, learn from those who are making a difference, and hear the amazing stories of hope from the people we are touching through our work.  I know many of you have been following the preparations for my journey at www.ClintonFoundation.org/Africa.  If you haven’t, I invite you to visit our site, where you can pledge your support, tell your friends about what we’re doing, and read stories from the field on our nlog.  I just posted my first entry, and I look forward to reading your comments when I get back to New York.

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The language of Nelson Mandela’s tribe, Xhosa, has a word that perfectly sums up our work in Africa: Ubuntu.  In English, it translates as "I am because you are."  In this increasingly interdependent world, our fate is inextricably linked with the fate of young people of modest means who are eager to serve their community in South Africa, struggling farmers in Malawi, and Tanzanians who require life-saving AIDS medicine to survive.

We have an obligation to help those in need and an unprecedented opportunity to do good in this world, but we can’t do it without your support.  Join our journey at www.ClintonFoundation.org/Africa.

Sincerely,

Bill Clinton

Successive US Presidents have never really been bothered with Africa — Bush missed a golden chance to build a “compassionate legacy,” by stopping the carnage in Darfur, instead he chose to squander America’s goodwill by “criminally” invading Iraq under false pretences — His “Mission Accomplished” [Click Link For Large Picture] flight and speech on the deck of the USS Lincoln, on May 2, 2003, back-fired horribly, creating more enemies for America in the Middle East — enough to last a lifetime.

Meanwhile, helpless black Africans are being destroyed, driven out of their homes — and are reportedly, being displaced by Arabs from neighboring countries, in a despicable and blatant act of Ethnic Cleansing.

Africans are ultimately responsible for their fate, but for a Superpower, that has colluded with Africa’s former colonial masters — to plant seeds of discord in the continent, and to rape it bare of it’s natural resources [in concert with some African dictators],…to date, to sit back and watch, is in my view unequivocally detestable.

Whatever Bush is trying to do now for Darfur, may be too late — and, I suspect he is “desperation mode” — busy trying to “salvage a failed Presidency.”

Clinton’s presidency was not a failure — nowhere near Bush’s catastrophic disaster, but he must double his current efforts in Africa, if he hopes to erase a “minute portion” of his failed Rwanda policy, for no amount of political “gerrymandering” will ever wipe out the horror of the Rwanda Genocide.

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