Outrage of the Year: Susan Rice is an enabler of Kagame and M23 (New York Times)

(Dr. Susan Rice, US UN Ambassador)



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This will no doubt go down as the outrage of the year: the role of an

enabler of Kagame and M23 that Susan Rice has been playing all along

at the United Nations.



In a devastating article written by Helene Cooper titled "U.N.

Ambassador Questioned on U.S. Role in Congo Violence" and published by

The New York Times today, it is revealed that



"Mr. Kagame's government was [Rice's] client when she worked at

Intellibridge, a strategic analysis firm

in Washington. Ms. Rice, who served

as the State Department's top African

affairs expert in the Clinton

administration, worked at the firm

with several other former Clinton

administration officials, including

David J. Rothkopf, who was an acting

under secretary in the Commerce

Department; Anthony Lake, Mr.

Clinton's national security adviser;

and John M. Deutch, who was

director of the Central Intelligence

Agency."



And that's "Ms. Rice has been

at the forefront of trying to shield the

Rwandan government, and Mr.

Kagame in particular, from

international censure, even as

several United Nations reports have

laid the blame for the violence in

Congo at Mr. Kagame's door."



In one most outrageous instance:



"Ms. Rice objected strongly

to a call by the French envoy, Gerard

Araud, for explicitly "naming and

shaming" Mr. Kagame and the

Rwandan government for its support

of M23, and to his proposal to

consider sanctions to pressure

Rwanda to abandon the rebel group.



" 'Listen Gerard,' she said, according

to the diplomat. 'This is the D.R.C. If

it weren't the M23 doing this, it

would be some other group.' The

exchange was reported in Foreign

Policy magazine last week."



And this is the irresponsiblr scatterbrain Obama wants to appoint as

Secretary Hillary Clinton's replacement!



Kudos to Jason Stearns, who is quoted in the article:



""The M23 would probably no longer

exist today without Rwandan

support," said Jason K. Stearns,

author of "Dancing in the Glory of

Monsters: The Collapse of Congo and

the Great War of Africa." "It stepped

in to prevent the movement from

collapsing and has been providing

critical military support for every

major offensive."



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