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Seize opportunity for peace in Darfur, George Clooney urges Obama
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Actor George Clooney met with Vice President Joe Biden on Monday to discuss bringing peace to Darfur.
One week in Darfur, the next week at the White House. That's the role of a peace activist -- one that actor George Clooney embraces. His battle to bring peace to Darfur brought him to the White House on Monday, where he met with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
The actor appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" later on Monday to discuss his activism.
"I actually met with the president in the Oval Office for about 15 minutes," Clooney told King, adding that they'd worked together on Darfur three years ago, holding a news conference on the issue when Obama was a U.S. senator. The actor met separately with Biden on Monday.
"They've been very involved" in Darfur, Clooney said. "Vice President Biden has been incredibly vocal on the issue."
Clooney, a longtime Darfur activist and a Messenger of Peace for the United Nations, was in Darfur last week with journalists Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times and Ann Curry of NBC.
"I think somehow we should all know that these people are hanging on by the skin of their teeth," Clooney told King of his visit.
The government of Darfur has waged a brutal counter-insurgency against militias for the past six years, a war that some international critics have characterized as genocide.
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