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Clinton vows aid to Myanmar if political reform continues
Los Angeles Times ^ | Dec. 1, 2011 | Clifford Coonan and Paul Richter

Posted on 12/01/2011 7:52:00 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

YANGON, Myanmar — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said during a landmark visit to Myanmar on Thursday that the U.S. would ease aid restrictions and consider further steps to improving relations with the country's autocratic rulers if they continued down a path of political and economic reform.

Clinton described her meeting with Thein Sein, Myanmar's president, as "candid, productive," but cautioned that while the "measures already taken may be unprecedented and welcomed, they are just the beginning."

She said Thein Sein told her during a private 45-minute meeting that he "hopes to build on" a flurry of political overhauls that began last year, and to work with the West on halting the illicit spread of nuclear and missile technology.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burma; herthighness; myanmar; theinsein

1 posted on 12/01/2011 7:52:02 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It will always be Rangoon and Burma to me!


2 posted on 12/01/2011 7:54:00 PM PST by Mandingo Conservative (Satan was like the first "community organizer", just ask Eve, the first liberal useful idiot!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

whose money? China?


3 posted on 12/01/2011 7:55:03 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Every US taxpayer should have the word “sucker” tattooed on their forehead.
4 posted on 12/01/2011 8:04:43 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Good job Hillary.
Aid the folks that aid NK and Iran in moving illegal arms.


5 posted on 12/01/2011 8:28:33 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Someone help me out here... in the context of world events at this time, why do we give a rats rear end what happens in Myanmar?


6 posted on 12/01/2011 8:30:18 PM PST by Lloyd227 (Class of 1998 (let's all help the Team McCain spider monkeys decide how to moderate))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Myanmar-Shave just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Thanks Free ThinkerNY.


7 posted on 12/01/2011 8:33:41 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Lloyd227

Because they are a conduit of illegal nuclear missile technology.


8 posted on 12/01/2011 8:34:33 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: SunkenCiv
Rangoon Shave aint cuttin it either. ☺
9 posted on 12/01/2011 8:35:40 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Boy what’s next for Hills, Ambassador to Pluto?


10 posted on 12/01/2011 8:49:13 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: mylife
"Because they are a conduit of illegal nuclear missile technology."

Ok, well that's important, but this is just one of dozens of such "conduits" these days and that cat is already out of the bag.

Pakistan, India, Iran, N Korea... likely a couple more we don't know about and sooner or later, the question is "what's the point?"

11 posted on 12/01/2011 9:04:48 PM PST by Lloyd227 (Class of 1998 (let's all help the Team McCain spider monkeys decide how to moderate))
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To: Free ThinkerNY; a fool in paradise
I still like Burma Shave!


12 posted on 12/01/2011 9:08:16 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Lloyd227

Burma is the midman.


13 posted on 12/01/2011 9:18:33 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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