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I rented Hotel Rwanda yesterday. There is nothing I can really say to sum up the feelings from watching this movie except to say the United States really, really messed up again. The massacre in Rwanda is huge - almost beyond imagination. And yet we’re watching it happen again in the Sudan. Listening to excerpts of these piece-of-shit politians talk about there being, “genicide-like conditions but not actual genicide”, was so inflamming, so enraging it made one want to go and hunt down these suckers and make them pay for what they did or didn’t do. There was an interesting point in the movie where a camera man from the news is asked what will happen, now that he has filmed the butching - surely the Americans will intervene. His reply was so to the point: “The Americans who will watch this will say, ‘Oh, what a shame. Look at those poor people.’ And go right on eating their dinners.” The lack of compassion is astounding. The reality is that Rwanda had nothing that we (The United States) wanted. No gold. No diamonds. No oil. It’s too bad Rwanda didn’t have any rich resources that the greedy White, Western World would have wanted. That might have spared their lives. If you haven’t seen Hotel Rwanda I would say rent it and be prepared for a horrific story that has only the slightest of happiness at its end. Don Cheatle has done a great job in his acting - he’s a rare actor. And the director Terry George should be commended for telling this story. In the end, nearly 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed in the massacre. What will the numbers in the Sudan be? For more info on the movie visit the official site here.