SaveDarfur.org has recently taken out advertisements encouraging people to write to petition to President Bush to tell him to "stop the killing in Darfur". With all due respect, their goal is admirable, but the target of their petition should be Sudan's backers and not President Bush.

IF YOU WANT TO STOP THE KILLING IN DARFUR THAN DO NOT BLAME PRESIDENT BUSH. THAT'S TOO EASY. THE US GOVT HAS DONE WHAT IT CAN IN PUTTING PRESSURE ON THE SUDANESE GOVT. YOU NEED TO SEND PETITIONS TO SUDAN'S BACKERS AND SUPPORTERS. THE COUNTRY THAT SUPPORTS SUDAN THE MOST AND ALLOWS IT TO GET AWAY WITH THE DARFUR CARNAGE IS CHINA. THE ONLY OTHER THING PRESIDENT BUSH CAN DO IS SEND IN THE MARINES. NO PRESIDENT, FROM ROOSEVELT TO CLINTON TO BUSH WOULD RISK AMERICAN LIVES FOR WHAT HAPPENS IN AFRICA. IT MAY BE UNFORTUNAT, BUT THAT'S THE SIMPLE TRUTH. PETITION CHINA'S LEADER-PRESIDENT HU . CHINA TRADE WITH AFRICA IS $40BLN AND HAS INVESTED $10BLN WITH SUDAN IN THE LAST 45 YRS. The country of 1.3 billion people also has a growing thirst for oil and Sudan provides up to 10 percent of that oil, making China Sudan's largest trade partner. China's state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. is the largest foreign investor in Sudan's oil sector. China owns oil fields in and around Darfur, buys 70 percent of Sudan's oil and allegedly has helped finance manufacturing facilities in Sudan used to build weapons.They've built pipelines. They've invested maybe a billion dollars in upgrading the Khartoum refineries. Chinese companies are building the Merowe Dam. NEXT UP TO PRESSURE Would be Russia's President Putin. Russia had supplied Sudan with military aircraft and weapons. As early as 1969 the Chinese government brought arms to Sudan. The group said arms sales rose in the 1990s as Sudan's civil war raged and that China sold Sudan antitank mines, ammunition, tanks, helicopters and jet fighters.This webpage 'SaveDarfur.org' is a good idea... but the petition is going to the wrong president. Send it to Sudan's backers - Hu and Putin.