Reuters:
President Bush, pressured by aid and rights groups, has decided to appoint a special envoy to try to end the violence in Sudan's western Darfur region, a U.S. official said on Monday.
The official, who asked not to be identified, declined to say who Bush had chosen but Sudan expert John Prendergast of the International Crisis Group said the front-runner was Andrew Natsios, a former Bush administration aid official.
Natsios, who resigned last December as head of the U.S. Agency for International Development and is now a professor at Washington's Georgetown University, did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment.
In 2003, Natsios told Nightline of Iraq, "But the American part of this will be 1.7 billion. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this." The price for war in Iraq is now over $315,000,000,000.
It'd be nice if we could find someone who lives in reality.
Tag: news politics war disaster Sudan Darfur
