George Clooney at the United Nations
George Clooney at the United Nations
#0George Clooney at the United Nations
Posted: 9/14/06 at 7:56pm
Go ahead, Chanti, and attack the "liberal Hollywood elite."
But the truth is: George Clooney did more to alleviate the suffering in Sudan in ONE SPEECH than George Bush did in six years.
Video at link.
George Clooney Addresses The U.N. On Darfur
#1re: George Clooney at the United Nations
Posted: 9/14/06 at 8:10pm
Thank you for the link PalJoey.
Oh, how I love that man so...
Shari Lewis: Did you ever wish upon a star?
Lamb Chop: I once asked Mr. Rogers for his autograph.
Updated On: 9/14/06 at 08:10 PM
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#3re: George Clooney at the United Nations
Posted: 9/14/06 at 8:31pmStewart/Colbert '08
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#4re: George Clooney at the United Nations
Posted: 9/14/06 at 8:33pmWell, I would, of course, agree with that Zoney.
#5re: George Clooney at the United Nations
Posted: 9/14/06 at 8:54pm
Zoney -- you offered sexual favors to John Murtha yesterday.
That entitles you to choose between Clooney and Stewart today.
#6re: George Clooney at the United Nations
Posted: 9/15/06 at 12:12am
Transcript of Clooney's remarks:
The United States has called it genocide. For you, it’s called ethnic cleansing. But make no mistake, it is the first genocide of the 21st century, and if it continues unchecked it will not be the last.
Now, my job is to come here today and to beg you, on behalf of the millions of people who will die — and make no mistake they will die — for you to take real and effective measures to put an end to this. Of course it’s complex, but when you see entire villages raped and killed, wells poisoned and then filled with the bodies of its villagers, then all complexities disappear and it comes down to simply right and wrong.
It’s not getting better. It’s getting much, much worse, and it is only the international community that can help us. Now, I know there are members of you here that, for what I’m sure are sensible reasons, have failed to use leverage at times to keep the — to get the peacekeepers on the ground. Well, we now have a date. The date is September 30th. The 1st of October we’ll leave these people with nothing. Whatever the reason, it’s not good enough.
On October 1, it won’t just be the Janjaweed murdering and raping with impunity or the SLA slaughtering the tribes. With no protection, all the aid workers will leave immediately and the two and a half million refugees who depend on that aid will die. Jan Egeland estimates 100,000 a month. So after September 30th, you won’t need the U.N. You will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and head stones.
In many ways it’s unfair, but it is nevertheless true, that this genocide will be on your watch. How you deal with it will be your legacy — your Rwanda, your Cambodia, your Auschwitz. We were brought up to believe that the Holocaust could never happen again. We believe in you so strongly. We need you so badly. We have come so far. We are one “yes” away from ending this. And if not the U.N., then who? And time is of the essence.
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