Clinton OK on Easing Indonesia Arms Ban

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Clinton OK on Easing Indonesia Arms Ban

Tuesday May 31, 2005 4:31 AM

By MICHAEL CASEY

Associated Press Writer

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Former President Clinton said Monday he favored easing restrictions on sales of military equipment to Indonesia, maintaining that America should do all it can to help it rebuild after the tsunami.

The United States disclosed Thursday it would lift a ban on the sale of certain military equipment to Indonesia, drawing criticism from human rights groups who say the country hasn't done enough to curb alleged abuses by the military in insurgency-wracked areas.

Clinton said lifting the ban would help relations with Indonesia, which the United States considers an important ally in its war on terrorism.

``I support the decision made by President Bush, not because I know all the facts, but because I think we always need to be making a new beginning,'' he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5041929,00.html

[Jim Sagle]

1. And because he likes to kiss Republican ass. Same as it ever was...

[unkachuck]

2. let's do our humanitarian duty....

....buy helping people in need, with weapons....I'm feeling embarassed for Bill these days, having been reduced to carrying water for bushco....

....here he is, our last serving Democratic president, who presided over 8 years of unprecedented Democratic prosperity, shilling for the Republicans....

....instead of leading the Democratic charge against the fascist right, he wraps his arms around them....sweet....