"Brutal, urgent, devastating � the documentary �The Devil Came on Horseback� demands to be seen as soon as possible and by as many viewers as possible. An up-close, acutely painful call to action, the movie pivots on a young American, a former Marine captain named Brian Steidle, who for six months beginning in the fall of 2004 worked for the African Union as an unarmed monitor in Darfur. What he saw in Darfur was unspeakable. And then he returned home, his arms, heart and head filled with the images of the dead."

-- The New York Times

Why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a civil war in Iraq, but the Bush Administration has only given lip service to trying to end the genocide in Darfur and the brutal suppression of democracy in Burma?

"The Devil Came on Horseback" documents through the grim photographs and personal story of ex-Marine Captain Brian Steidle the murderous rampages conducted in Darfur, with the participation and support of the Sudanese government.

Steidle comes from a military family and went to Sudan not knowing the horror that awaited him. He returns to the U.S. with piles of photographs that detail the genocide, only to be told by the Bush Administration not to circulate the pictures. Yes, that's right, Bush is obsessed with his "divine" mission of creating chaos in Iraq and doesn't want to be distracted by people kicking up a fuss about Darfur -- especially when an ex-Marine Captain can provide graphic evidence of how a people are being systematically decimated.

Throughout the documentary, Steidle remains both frustrated and steadfast in his commitment to save the people of Darfur. The Bush Administration apparently sees Darfur as a complicated political "distraction" from its wars for oil in the Middle East -- and doesn't want to anger China, which, ironically, has a large investment in extracting oil from the and supports the government in Khartoum.

Steidle is an American hero. Meanwhile, the slaughter continues in Darfur, as does a deteriorating public health situation.

Brian makes you proud of the United States. The Bush Administration makes you ashamed.