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“While there have been times in the months since General Scott Gration’s appointment as special envoy that I have been concerned by the direction that this administration appeared to be taking in Sudan, I refrained from any public criticism not wanting to do anything that could jeopardize peace or progress on these critical issues. But I can be silent no longer.



“The time has come for Secretary Clinton and President Obama to personally and actively engage on Sudan .



“During the campaign, then candidate Obama said, ‘The Bush administration should be holding Sudan accountable for failing to implement significant aspects of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), imperiling the prospects for scheduled multiparty elections in 2009.’



“I could not agree more. Accountability is imperative. The CPA is not up for re-negotiation. But the burden for action, the weight of leadership, now rests with this president and this president alone.



“I have consistently received reports from people on the ground that this administration’s posture toward Sudan has only emboldened Bashir and the NCP. Sunday’s Wall Street Journal editorial page put it this way, ‘As a candidate, Mr. Obama stood with the human rights champions of Darfur and pledged tougher sanctions and a possible no-fly zone if a Sudanese regime infamous for genocide didn't shape up. His tone has changed in office….the preference for diplomacy over pressure has encouraged the hard men in Khartoum to stoke the flames in Darfur, ignoring an arms embargo and challenging the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force there.’



“This softening in the U.S. posture has not gone unnoticed. In recent written testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, the top UN investigator said, ‘In contrast to that leadership of 2004 and 2005, the United States appears to have now joined the group of influential states who sit by quietly and do nothing to ensure that sanctions protect Darfurians.’



This administration’s engagement with Sudan to date has failed to recognize the true nature of Bashir and the NCP. Having been to Sudan five times, I’ve seen the work of their hands with my own eyes. In June 2004 I was part of the first congressional delegation with Senator Sam Brownback to Darfur . I witnessed the nightmare. I saw the scorched villages and overflowing camps. I heard the stories of murder, rape and displacement.

It is also important to note that Sudan remains on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. It is well known that the same people currently in control in Khartoum gave safe haven to Osama bin Laden in the early 1990’s. I was troubled by Special Envoy Gration’s comments this summer that ‘There is no evidence in our intelligence community that supports [Sudan] being on the state sponsors of terrorism list…’ despite the findings of the 2008 State Department Country Reports on Terrorism that ‘…there have been open source reports that arms were purchased in Sudan's black market and allegedly smuggled northward to Hamas.’

“Bashir and the NCP are hardly our partners in peace. And yet, we cannot claim that Khartoum has been unpredictable, that we did not know what they were capable of. Tragically, they have been utterly consistent for nearly 20 years. They have consistently brutalized their own people. They have consistently failed to live up to agreements. And they have consistently responded only to strength and pressure.



“And so I say once again, time is running out. The urgency of the situation calls for intervention at the highest levels of the U.S. Government—specifically the secretary of State and the president of the United States . The people of Sudan cry out for nothing less.”

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