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Scott Pelley Reports On The Genocide In Darfur

[calex4]

I am not only horrified by extemely moved to want to help...What can we do and how do we get into contact with Dr. Ashis Brahma to get him things that can help him...As a Jewish American and a mother of 2 I can not just stand by anymore and just watch or sit and wait for our government to get a CLUE!!! I want to help please point me in the right direction...

[politikz]

After reading this segment, I too wonder why we are still fighting in Iraq and not doing something to protect thousands dying in the Sudan. I do not want to hear another person in the administration lie about how the Iraqi people are now free. At least they are not starving or being burned to death. I think I would have taken my chances in a Saddam Hussein run-Iraq, than to try and make it in the Sudan. If Dubya was so concerned about human rights and making sure third world nations like this don't turn into training camps for terrorist, he would have done something. Dubya will go down as one of the worst U.S. presidents, alongside Useless Grant and Andrew Johnson!!

[octopibingo]

Let's face it, everything that's happening in the world is Bush's fault. Does that really make liberals feel better? I guess it does evade the real problem, summed up by tamara 3741 and the "great" Kanye West. But it needs a rephrase. "Bush doesn't care about black people."? How about something more accurate, seeing the problem for what it is. "Black people don't care about black people."
As for the comment "We are WE allowing this to happen," how about "Why is the rest of the world allowing this to happen?" People who don't want us involved in other countries and situations they deem unnecessary want us immersed in Africa.

[mjv2944]

There is no money to be made in Africa and that is why our government for big business and by big business don't care. There's only a couple of countries that have oil, and Dubya and his coharts figures that there is not enough to worry about. This is where we should be instead of Iraq. These people have suffered long enough.

[redturtlegir]

I sat doing laundry with my 6 month old son last night watching 60 MINUTES. I watched in horror as the picture of the malnourished baby flashed across the tele. I literally, gasped and started crying. I held my son and said a thankful prayer... that I live in America, that I was born free, (even if I live on an Indian reservation--one of the hardest places to live). I want to help. I think it would be a disservice to humanity to simply watch this unfold. If the holocaust museum says, "never again" then why are WE allowing it to happen?

[bessbright]

Americans do not wish to have their privileged lives contaminated by the unsettling story 60 Minutes presented on Darfur and the Sudanese government. That is on the other side of the world, "Let those people handle their own lives... Just don't make me think about anything other than my own well being and my television programs." Never mind that while Rip Van Winkle sleeps, our government has been reduced to a joke by much of the world, thought of as country deserving of the asinine, inept leasership that it has. Until people see the face of God, Allah, Buddah, Higher Power etc... on the face of all beings then this heinous part of life will go on and on. bessbright

[gramto7]

The first thing most of can do is get to our election precinct on November 7 and change the makeup of the Senate and House of Representatives. After that write all those that are voted in and demand a change in policy so that Darfur is no longer placed, not just on the back burner, but somewhere in the lower reaches of the refrigerator. Actually that is not quite right. It is somewhere in he11. These people have suffered more than all the people in the United States put together. Coming from me, that says a lot as I watch my grandson die from a brain tumor.

[vickilatorre]

What can we do to help? What organizations are working best to solve this problem?

[friestyle-2009]

How do we help Dr. Ashis Brahma or contact him?

[herebythesea]

I agree wholeheartedly with "angry_in_LA". Why is it that we know all about Sarah Evans divorce and her nanny than we know about these refugees in Sudan. For that matter, why do we know more about the divorce scandal than any of the atrocities going on in the world? What have the American people come to? We don't want to know about the evil in the world, because that would make us feel discomfort or guilt. And, by all means, Americans with all of our advantages should NEVER be made to feel uncomfortable or guilty. Guilt? No, these advantages are our "rights".

[bigisle]

My TV stopped working so I am thankful that 60 minutes has this info here on the web. And I am thankful that people write in and tell their TRUE thoughts, beliefs and feelings about the hypocracy of Christians in this world. Bush and his cronies are hell bent on ending the world as we know it for their Chrisitianity religious purposes and anyone who can not see it is a fool. To see people kill over religion is so rediculuous when the first law of either religion is NOT TO KILL! And why do they not hear that? Hypocracy I say! As they take everyone else down with them. Including many innocent children, and children in the Natl. Guard. Does everyone know that Bush is taking criminals rather than making them go to prison they can go to war instead? No they don't tell you that do they?
People killing over one God/Lord/Jah/Allah/Buddah/it's all the same WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

Isn't it ironic that we're allowing genocide to continue by protecting a regime that protected and sheltered Osama bin Laden?

How many people are we going to allow to die and what rights are we going to continue to forfeit in the name of our security? Dead - millions in Darfur, 100,000s Iraqis and Afghans, thousands of US soldiers. The loss of Habeus Corpus, torture, wire-tapping, Gitmo - are these the values America stands for? Are we really more secure? Or are we cultivating new extremists by our extreme actions?

It's saddening and disappointing to see yet another example of President Bush's Orwellian double speak - on the one hand speaks in front of the UN calling the Darfur situation genocide and on the other supporting the regime for bogus intelligence.

[tamara3741]

This administration is looking out for it's own interests. Like Kanye West said, "Bush doesn't care about black people."

[carolynstevi]

This is one of the biggest atrocities. If we now care, after all these years, about the hollocost, why would we not care about the present situation in Sudan? I believe we waste so much time on the past to try to atone our lack of empathy we should have had when the atrocity occured.Why can't we stop trying to force other governments to adopt our so called democracy and pull our military support and place them where they could make a big difference. Like saving the people in Sudan from genocide.

[roni8877]

Where in the name of God are all the worlsw Christian Leaders??To sit in silence and allow this makes them all nothing more than Hypocrites with the mentality Hilter had

This is an outrage and we need to do more to bring this to the attention of all American Leaders to just do what is right for these poor innocent people

thank you for the courge it took to go there and do this show keep it up

char larsen
oakdale mn

[angry_in_la]

WWJD? I see so many people wearing these bracelets. What would Jesus do about this? How can we call ourselves Christians, Muslims, Buddists or any other organized religions believers and stand by and watch this again? America cries for the Jews every year, when is she going to cry for the Africans? This is not the first, second or third time that such a crime has been committed against an entire race of people. But we need to do everything in out power to make sure it stops and never starts again. I am ashamed of how our society is so caught in B.S. like why Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton aren't speaking? Or who father dumb *** Anna Nicole Smith's baby? People are dying, no people are being tortured and killed! While the world watches.........once again I ask WWJD?

[bobschacht]

Your commentary suggested that OUR GOVERNMENT is turning a blind eye to the genocide in Darfur because it is receiving "valuable" intelligence on Al Queada from the Arab-speaking dictators of the Sudan. I have read the same point elsewhere.

But is it really worth more than thousands of African lives? Or perhaps are African lives not very valuable to this administration?

This is an unconscionable and immoral policy. At the very least, our government should be considered as an accessory to a war crime.

This is another reason for voting in the November elections against Republicans in Congress, who have utterly failed in their oversight responsibilities.

Bob in HI

[samk61]

I think jmarieone raises an interesting question. I wonder what CBS 60 Minutes has to say in response?
Regarding the genocide in Darfur: I found a reference to an interesting website to check out...http://passionofthepresent.org/

[samk61]

I think jmarieone raises an interesting question. I wonder what CBS 60 Minutes has to say in response?
Regarding the genocide in Darfur: I found a reference to an interesting website to check out...http://passionofthepresent.org/

[blueingreen3]

Although, our homeless need all our help. No one is trying to exterminate them due to their unfortune, or their choice of religion or their culture. It's not only irresponsible to say what we are doing is enough. But we are sending the wrong message to our helpless beautiful children. We are saying "save no one but yourself." Stop blaming it on the past. We can change today. Today's president is Bush not Clinton. No more GENOCIDE!! For a better world for ourselves and our CHILDREN. savedarfur.org