March 02 , 2006
The chairmen of the Republican and Democratic parties have emphasized the need to do more to end the genocide in Sudan. In separate speeches before the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) on Tuesday, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman, called for a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan, while his Democratic counterpart, Howard Dean, commended JCPA leaders for urging the Bush administration to do more to stop the massacres.
In his speech, Mehlman reflected on the campaign against terrorism, and stressed action against Iraq was necessary to eliminate a terrorist threat. “In a world where 19 armed men with nothing but box cutters could in a matter of minutes kill 3,000, could we allow a man who had done all of this, a man whose hatred of the United States and whose lust for power was unabated, continue to plot?”, he asked, referring to Saddam Hussein. Dean said he would work to ensure religious proselytization “will not become the domain of the government of the United States.” Both men stressed the United States should not recognize a Hamas-led Palestinian government, and said more needed to be done to contain the Iranian nuclear threat.
