Khartoum characters: exactly 142 days after Bush said the word "Darfur," he added a more important word: "genocide." But does the policy match the sentiment?(DISPATCHES)

AS PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH sat down at a joint press conference with South African President Thabo Mbeki on June 1, he preempted a question about the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan, one of the topics of the two men's White House luncheon.

It had been 142 days since Bush had uttered the word "Darfur" and this day, he spoke carefully. "This is a serious situation," Bush said. Then he made a statement that would effectively end a dispute within his administration over the true nature of the war crimes in Darfur. "As you know, former Secretary of ...

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