Uganda, as Herman and Peterson themselves emphasize. They were outsiders with no connection to, and apparently no particular sympathy for, the Tutsi civilian population of Rwanda. It was the Rwandan Tutsi population which, by all serious accounts, bore the overwhelming brunt of the Hutu Power genocide. So Herman and Peterson's mocking reference to the "minority Tutsi" population supposedly bearing the brunt of the massacres, then assuming "complete control" of Rwanda, is pure sleight-of-hand. To repeat the indisputable: it was the foreign-based RPF that took "complete control" in July 1994 and "wiped the territory clean of its 'genocidaires'" -- not the "minority Tutsi" population of Rwanda, which had been mostly exterminated by that point. By insinuating otherwise -- by conflating Rwanda's civilian Tutsis with "Kagame's Tutsi forces" -- Herman and Peterson none-too-subtly adopt Hutu Power's justification for slaughtering Tutsi civilians: that they constituted a "fifth column," indistinguishable from the invading RPF. This casual parroting of the most virulent Hutu-extremist propaganda effectively blames Rwanda's Tutsis for their own extermination. It is a disgraceful ploy, and by itself it casts Herman and Peterson's "analysis" into utter disrepute. (3) Herman and Peterson quote approvingly Allan Stam's claim that the RPF's military maneuvers were "staggeringly like the United States invasion of Iraq in 1991." This is advanced to buttress their (painfully thin) argument that the RPF acted as a US proxy throughout 1994, and after. But if RPF military actions were indeed "staggeringly like" those of the US and its allies in the 1991 Gulf