Why US Wants Burma Dictators Out


	Why US Wants Burma Dictators Out

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10-18-2007 4:32 AM

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																	There are facts and then there are facts. Take the case of the recent mass 
																	protests in Burma or Myanmar, depending on which name you prefer to call the 
																	former British colony.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IJ17Ae01.html">
																	The tragedy of Myanmar, whose land area is about the size of George W Bush's 
																	Texas, is that its population is being used as a human stage prop in a drama 
																	scripted in Washington by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the 
																	George Soros Open Society Institute, Freedom House and Gene Sharp's Albert 
																	Einstein Institution,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IJ17Ae01.html">US government has such a keen interest in 
																	fostering regime change in Myanmar </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IJ17Ae01.html">control ultimately of the 
																	strategic sea lanes from the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IJ17Ae01.html">
																	The Pentagon has been trying to militarize the region since September 11, 2001</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/04EEA29E-3E2A-4BF3-B557-6F7B59CCB71E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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