Such an appropriate topic today Eric considering the people of Bagdhad are dancing in the streets overjoyed with they're upcoming freedom. Take a minute to reflect on what we are doing instead of what we have not done.

What do we know of the Rwanda tragedy:
On April 6, 1994, Hutu extremists began the systematic massacre of Rwanda's minority Tutsi population. They also killed many thousands of moderate Hutus who had refused to participate in the bloodshed. For the next 3 months, mothers and their babies were hacked to death with machetes and families seeking refuge in churches were butchered inside. People stopped at checkpoints were killed on the spot if their ID cards listed their ethnicity as Tutsi. Streets were littered with corpses, and literally ran red with blood. Estimates of the number of people killed ranged from 500,000 to 1 million.
    The tragedy did not end there. After the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (the RPF), gained control of the country, 2 million Hutus fled Rwanda, leading to a protracted refugee crisis in which countless innocents died of disease, starvation and murder in what was then eastern Zaire and elsewhere.
    Even today the fighting continues between the Government of Rwanda and the insurgent forces of the former genocidaires, the ex-FAR and the Interahamwe. Both the Hutu insurgents and the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) continue to commit serious atrocities against civilians. The insurgents attacked and murdered Tutsi refugees, including women and children, and have attempted to reignite ethnic hatred against the Tutsi population.
    Meanwhile, the Rwandan Army, according to our own State Department, has ''committed thousands of killings of unarmed civilians in the past year, including routine and systematic killings of families, including women and children.'' There are no clean hands among the parties to that conflict.
    During his trip to Rwanda in March, President Clinton properly lamented the horrors of the 1994 genocide and stated, ''The international community must bear its share of responsibility for this tragedy.'' His remarks were correct, as far as they went, but they left many critical questions unanswered.
    Those questions can be divided into two basic categories. First, what did the United Nations, the United States, and other non-African governments do either to deter or to stop the 1994 genocide? President Clinton admitted that we did not act quickly enough after the killing began, but he did not address what the United States may have failed to do before the killings began that might have averted the disaster.

Before pointing the finger at the Republicans ask yourself who was president at the time. Clinton was of course and the buck stops with the President ...period and end of story. The fact you bring it up today of all days reflects that you are bitter about the success George W in the war on Iraq. Let it go... the Democrats will have a chance to make they're case...........in 2008