[...] Lugoff, SC: I think white folks want world domination. Why are white people so happy about Iraq's freedom when they kept black people from their freedom for almost 200 years and the Africans in the Sudan are dying at a rapid rate because of genocide? Why do one race of people (Black people) never get any help when help is needed?
Rod Nordland: A glib answer might be that black countries don't have much oil. But seriously, the U.S. position on Sudan has been a lot more forthright than most of the members (many of them from African countries) of the UN, who refuse to call what's happening in Darfur genocide, though the United States has. And I recall we did invade Somalia to help black people, though that proved as big a mistake as Iraq. Or at least in the same class. [...]
| That's what caught our eye in Newsweek's Baghdad bureau chief Rod Nordland's online chat "Iraq Votes" (via Wonkette)
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