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Old 09-25-2007, 05:26 PM   #21
Rai
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Originally Posted by Lindsay
"Today at the UN Bush announced new economic sanctions on the Burmese government"
oh he loves those sanctions, doesn't he. Worked very well in Sudan.
He doesn't have much other choice now... getting the Marines there isn't the wisest thing to do and the Security Council is boycotted by China. (on the contrary, Sudan's solution is getting an AU/UN pacification force there with authorisation to engage the Janjaweed. In Sierra Leone, 500 british soldiers did wonders in 1999)
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