Thursday, April 22, 2004
Bush Can't Admit Mistakes, But Can Any President?
Well, yeah, actually one did...
In 1998, Clinton went to Rwanda to apologize for the million or so dead, to their families, and to the survivors for wounds Rwandans themselves say will never heal.
"All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices, day after day, who did not fully appreciate the depth and the speed with which you were being engulfed in this unimaginable terror," Clinton said.
"Scholars of these sorts of events say the killers, armed mostly with machetes and clubs, nonetheless did their work five times as fast as the mechanized gas chambers used by the Nazis."
Bill Clinton cited the horrors of Rwanda as one reason for intervention in Kosovo the next year. Anyone remember how Republicans felt about that?
Read a few of these comments for a stroll down memory lane...
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