Comments on: Searching For Jacob

Scott Pelley Reports On The Genocide In Darfur

[drzhivago00]

Many people in America know about the situation in Darfur. President Bush called it Genocide to the face of the Sudanese at UN. Name me another foreign leader who did the same?! (Perhaps Tony Blair).
So, to suggest, that US Administration is "in bed with the Sudanese government", like Scott Pelley did, is a preposterous lie!! (would someone advise Mr. Pelley to do less his profile shots and look more in the camera - we know already he likes his profile!!)
Immediately following this program, Andy Rooney was commenting on Iraq. First he said, it was good we removed the dictator. Then he continued, the President should come forward and say it was all a mistake??!! So, which is it - right or wrong?!! This is a kind of logic that pervades this partisan network!! RatherGate did not teach them anything!!
We liberated Iraq! Let's our European "friends" to do the same for Sudan! Just ask Chirac to lead the charge!!!

[barberee]

I watch a story like this, and I am outraged; outraged that the UN has allowed such an attrocity to happen. Outraged that our government has allowed genocide to happen (again) and has effectively provided a means for it to continue. We Americans are so shielded from these horrors, that we can watch a story of unbelievable horrors such as these and then sit back and watch teams of people travel around the globe to win a million dollars...

[revcarla-2009]

If we were not as invested in the Iraq war, then perhaps we would have troops to send over to stop this genocide. My husband and I cried at the end of this story--for Jacob and the others who seem destined to die. How can the world leaders turn away from this killing and not do something? I am ashamed of our president and the Republican congress for worrying more about cutting taxes and benefiting large corporations than saving people's lives.

[msladybug-2009]

I was outraged by the genocide in Darfur. What are the sacrifices of the USA's war on terror. We have sacrificed so many of our brave young men and women in this war. Now I am learning that we are cozying up with the Khartoum government on counterterrorism...So, the US government totally ignores the people of the Sudan! Honestly, I'm not sure why I am surprised. This administration has totally ignored the issues of humanity and the common people. So many innocent children, women, men, and our own soldiers being sacrificed to prove a point...and the point is what? Please, someone explain it to me!

[asm75]

Thank you Mr. Pelley. I am a High School teacher and I'm preparing to expose my students to these attrocities. The report brought me to tears and it enforces my belief that what's important in life is to make a difference. I always ask people who were old enough to comprehend what was taking place during the Hitler genocide to tell me what they knew and what they did about it. History will never forget Hitler's stain on the earth and we must not allow another genocide to happen(or shall I say... continue). If we end this at this very moment, we would all have plenty of blood on our hands as citizens of the strongest nation in the world. How much longer and how much more bureaucracy needs to take place before this ends? Thank you Mr. Pelley you have done your job as a citizen and as a human being.

[jkovaric]

I am surprised that there is no indepth report on what the African American leadship, politicians and other organizations, are doing about this attrocity.
It is strange that there seems to be more effort in
obtaining "retribution" than there is in publicizing these types of evils and atrocities occuring in Africa.

[jkovaric]

I am surprised that there is no indepth report on what the African American leadship, politicians and other organizations, are doing about this attrocity.
It is strange that there seems to be more effort in
obtaining "retribution" than there is in publicizing these types of evils and atrocities occuring in Africa.

[moerock2]

I am ashamed to be an American. In keeping an information exchange with Sudan we are in effect dealing with terrorists..Something the US supposedly doesn't do. The Doctor is right. In two years we will watch the reports again and be horrified again. I hope you will keep reporting on these atrocities and maybe the world will wake up.