Reply #19: But the vampires wanted a natural gas pipeline there. Look at this:

[EFerrari]

The Associated Press

By JIM DRINKARD
WASHINGTON (AP) - When four senior House Republicans landed in
Burma three months ago as guests of the country's military
dictators, their official mission was to inspect drug interdiction
efforts. But that was not the only agenda.

During part of the trip, Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and an
aide flew by helicopter over the remote area where a U.S. oil
company, Unocal, and its French partner, Total, are building a
natural gas pipeline.

That $1.2 billion project, Burma's largest foreign investment
deal, could be in jeopardy because of possible U.S. sanctions
against the southeast Asian country.

The trip by Hastert, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Texas, New
York Rep. Bill Paxon and Ohio Rep. Deborah Pryce was paid for by
the Asia Pacific Exchange Foundation, a tax-exempt organization in
Washington.

The group's president, Richard G. Quick, declines to say where
its money comes from. But Unocal acknowledged it is among the
foundation's sponsors.

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