US special envoy for Sudan resigns

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President Bush's special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios, has resigned, U.S. officials said Friday.

Natsios oversaw a push to end the violence that the United States calls genocide in Sudan's troubled western Darfur region and worked to maintain a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of civil war between north and south Sudan.

The officials who confirmed Natsios' resignation spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to make the announcement, which was expected from the White House along with the nomination of his successor, former deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Williamson.

Williamson, a senior Republican party official in Illinois, is close to current Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, whom he worked under when Negroponte was the top U.S. envoy at the U.N.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071221/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_sudan;_ylt=Ahzjgofc5XEHx7K7dICvW9uyFz4D

Natsios was also involved with the 'reconstruction' of Iraq, he said the most the US would have to pay for it would be 1.7 billion dollars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Natsios#Iraq_reconstruction

[JuniperLea]

1. What was the war on Iraq but a genocide?

I'm sick to death of these lying warmongers. God will get them. Oh, yes... he will.