From: "Robert G Lewis" 

Bush didn't ask for MOST of our current laws to be passed, yet I would
expect him to follow and through his Attorney General enforce them as I
would any President of the US.. So why say it was a Clinton Era law ?


"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:433ed60a{at}w3.nls.net...
> Its a 1998 Clinton era law.  Not a law Bush asked to be passed.
>
> Gary
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:433ed399{at}w3.nls.net...
>> So - Bushies  "courageously" managed to use the law
against Eritrea?
> It's
>> yet another law that makes us appear disingenuous to the world while
>> fulfilling the self serving needs of whichever party is in power.
>>
>>
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>> news:433ecc89{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > 1998 Law.  So Bush NOT Clinton was the brave and courageous President
> who
>> > put Saudi Arabia on the list for the first time.  So Bush has done more
>> > against Saudi Arabia under this law than Clinton ever did.
>> >
>> > Gary
>> >
>> > "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> > news:433ded59{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> Sanctions vs oil. Oil wins each time.  Eritrea better find that oil
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050930/ts_nm/religion_saudi_usa_dc
>> >> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has postponed
punishing Saudi
>> >> Arabia, its close ally and key oil supplier, for
restricting religious
>> >> freedom -- the first time Washington has waived punishing a
>> >> blacklisted
>> >> country under a 1998 law targeting violators of religious rights.
>> >>
>> >> U.S. officials said on Friday the Bush administration had
decided to
>> >> delay
>> >> imposing sanctions on Saudi Arabia for six months.
>> >>
>> >> In a rare official rebuke a year ago, Washington designated Saudi
> Arabia
>> > as
>> >> one of only eight countries worldwide that could be sanctioned. The
>> >> blacklisting in an annual report said religious freedom
did not exist
> in
>> > the
>> >> kingdom.
>> >>
>> >> With this year's report due out next month, the Bush administration
>> >> needed
>> >> to decide on sanctioning Saudi Arabia and chose to give
the kingdom a
>> >> further six months to negotiate how it might improve its record.
>> >>
>> >> "We have not seen strong progress in the area of
legal protection for
>> >> religious freedom," State Department spokesman
Kurtis Cooper said.
> "(But)
>> > we
>> >> welcome Saudi recognition of the need to make
improvements and create
>> >> a
>> > more
>> >> tolerant society."
>> >>
>> >> With high oil prices affecting the U.S. economy and dragging on
>> >> President George W. Bush's popularity, Democrats have
charged he has
>> > largely
>> >> ignored Saudi Arabia's rights record for fear of causing
any backlash
>> >> from
>> >> the oil supplier.
>> >>
>> >> Prominent Saudis dismiss as politically motivated U.S. criticism of
>> >> the
>> >> country's strict Wahhabi brand of Islam.
>> >>
>> >> In contrast to its decision on Saudi Arabia, the United
States decided
> to
>> >> sanction Eritrea by banning military exports to the Horn of Africa
>> > country,
>> >> the officials said.
>> >>
>> >> Vietnam, the third country added to the blacklist last year, has
> avoided
>> >> sanctions after agreeing to improve its record, they added.
>> >>
>> >> The other countries the United States considers serious
violators of
>> >> religious freedom are   North Korea, Myanmar, Sudan,  
Iran and China.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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