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Change! Obama to Lift Sanctions Against Syria & May Allow Travel to Cuba
What Axis of Evil?
For the first time in 30 years, Syria will be taken off the list of the State Sponsors of Terrorism.
Why?... Who knows.
Jihad Watch reported:
Syria has been listed by the State Department as among the State Sponsors of Terrorism since December 29, 1979.
Is Obama going to remove that designation?
On what grounds?
"Obama preparing to lift sanctions against Syria," from the World Tribune, February 9 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
NICOSIA — President Barack Obama has decided on a new U.S. ambassador to Syria and is expected to lift sanctions against a nation charged with aiding Al Qaida in Iraq and secretly building a nuclear reactor with North Korean assistance.
Diplomatic sources said Obama, in consultation with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has asked Frederic Hof to become the first U.S. ambassador to Damascus since 2005. The sources said Hof, a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Middle East Policy Council, agreed to take the post.
"There will be an announcement very soon," a diplomat said.
For the first time in 46 years, democrats hope to pass legislation to permit unrestricted travel to Cuba.AFP reported:
Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have introduced a bill to permit US citizens unrestricted travel to Cuba, according to the Library of Congress website.
The "Freedom To Travel to Cuba Act," which would overturn the 46-year-old US policy strictly limiting travel to the Caribbean island, will be subject to debate after being referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The bill, introduced by Massachusetts Democrat Bill Delahunt and backed by eight other lawmakers, states that "the President may not regulate or prohibit, directly or indirectly, travel to or from Cuba by United States citizens or legal residents."
Currently US nationals are supposed to request Treasury Department permission to visit Cuba.
No wonder Fidel Castro is writing strange letters to fellow revolutionary Rahm Emanuel.
6 comments:
Been to Cuba....nothing to do there...it really sucks.
Syria has hot chicks and supposedly great humous..... I doubt they'll give me a visa.
Oh and of course, all those that die on boats trying to get here to the US, all these years,
are just doing so because they are greedy folks who want to go to Disneyland!
I used to wonder about leftists when I worked in that political stage why they went on and on about how great Cuba was,
that it was the US sanctions that was the cause of the poverty there,
and yet, they censured Any objection or question from those of us who weren't that duped when we asked about why so many abortions necessary [why so many pregnancies in the first place?], why with all the lip speak to women's rights/feminist Cuba has one of the lowest numbers of women in high office,
why though yes, they have made strides in lowering maternal death rates [childbirth] there is such a high rate of prostitution.
Not only that, but women risking their lives, men and children knowing the risks drowning at sea to get here and knowing the risks if they get sent back,
if its Such a utopia,
why so many willing to risk death by drowning/sharks?
Not one in the left parties ever asks or even thinks of that, and its a Daily pulling people out of boats--a mass migration of people out of Cuba that have to be saved or turned back.
Something not right with that picture.
It's good to know that the current administration condones state-sponsored terrorism.
been to cuba too, I had a blast. horseback riding in the hills, smoking cigars, scuba diving, windsurfing, dancing, and eating some of the best food ive ever had. surrounded mostly by canadians, belgians brits, germans and french.
communism is evil, but we trade and allow free unrestricted travel with china, no one bats an eye at soemone booking a trip to see the great wall of china nowadays.
and too me a well constructed well balanced cigar with the right filler binder and wrapper leaf is just as important as some stupid wall.
I should also add the resorts were built by canadian contractors who brought in gm and chevy pickup trucks by the boatload to hual around construction equipment and trailers. made in the ontario canada gm plant.
keeping this trade embargo hasnt been a good idea any more than the libtards denying trade agreements with columbia is a good idea.
I was going to mention that Cuba is mainly Canuck..but I thought better of it. (Many foolish people actually volunteer to cut cane!).
The food is crap.
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