Dana Rohrabacher: “as seldom as this happens, I would like to rise today to compliment the Clinton administration from this side of the…”

“as seldom as this happens, I would like to rise today to compliment the Clinton administration from this side of the aisle. The compliment I would like to give the Clinton administration is recently acknowledged that the Clinton administration will be having a tough policy towards the Government of Burma, the dictatorship of Burma, rather than a conciliatory approach to this dictatorship. The word is out that instead of trying to cooperate with this group of gangsters that are strangling the life out of their own people that this administration has instead chosen to be tough with these people who are in control and say, instead, the United States is for freedom. We are on the side of the people instead of the side of the dictatorship. There have been many in this town who have been asking for cooperation with the dictatorship in Burma especially over drug eradication. There are many drug lords in the northern part of Burma. What the people of Burma know and what many people who are opposed to the dictatorship know is that the government is working hand-in-hand with the drug lords. We need to be struggling against those drug lords, and that means taking a firm stand for democracy, because when the people are in charge of the government, they will get rid of the drug lords in Burma. I commend the Clinton administration for this stand for democracy and freedom in Southeast Asia.”