CONGRESS MEMBERS ARRESTED AT SUDAN PROTEST

This is how COMPLETELY USELESS our politicians are in Washington. Unable to affect change in American foreign policy, they attend protests like everyone else who has no power in the world. And, like many of those people who attend protests, they got arrested. Here's an excerpt from [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/28/congress_members_arrested_at_sudan_protest/?p1=MEWell_Pos5|an April 28, 2006 article] from AP.org and Boston.com:

Five Congress members were willingly arrested and led away from the Sudanese Embassy in plastic handcuffs Friday in protest of the Sudanese government's role in atrocities in the Darfur region.

The slaughter of the people of Darfur must end," Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., a Holocaust survivor who founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, said from the embassy steps before his arrest.

Four other Democratic Congress members -- James McGovern and John Olver of Massachusetts, Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and Jim Moran of Virginia -- were among 11 protesters arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly, a misdemeanor subject to a fine.

"We must hold the Sudanese government accountable for the attacks they have supported on their own citizens in Darfur," Olver said.

At the White House, President Bush met with Darfur advocates on Friday and lent his support to rallies planned in more than a dozen cities around the country this weekend to protest the violence in that embattled western region of Sudan.

"The genocide in Sudan is unacceptable," Bush said. "There will be rallies across our country to send a message to the Sudanese government that the genocide must stop. ... I want the Sudanese government to understand the United States of America is serious about solving this problem."

I'm sure Bush will deal with the problem of genocide in the Sudan right after he deals with Iran's non-existent WMD.