BURMA situation is the result of neglect and a failed American Administration's faulty leadership.

Disagree? You don't think this is fair to the Bush Administration? Tell me about it.

http://www.xomba.com/referral/77777d6e

See science article here:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi content/full/2007/928/2

Even after Science Magazine published the satellite photos showing the military result of destroying their citizen's villages and the killing of hundreds if not thousands -- little of substance was presented by the Administration to the Senate Committee.

No rephrase that, NOTHING of substance from the Bush administration except a statement of urgent concern.

Scot Mariel Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, US Department of State testified to an admitted floundering around in communications with the Burmese junta and among the people in the administration over sanctions. (Muriel, not an expert on Burma, and of course, a political appointee, had been "learning" to become their Burma specialist (who never did a Burma thing until two years ago.) Scot reassured the Senate of the President's urgent concern. He expressed to the committee that real difficulties in having agreement on sanctions and even getting China to budge on the issue was a challenge to all. He also blamed India and Japan, as well as Thailand for being hard to enlist, despite their expressions of concern.

Two statements of merit came from Mr. Aung Din and Tom Malinowski. Mr Din had a passionate and moving statement furnished for the record that explained the Burmese plea for help in getting democracy re-established in Burma. Mr Din is Policy Director, Co-Founder U.S. Campaign for Burma Washington, DC. Senator Boxer, Chairman, read aloud part of the furnished statement in a way that strongly expressed the Burmese plight under the junta.

Tom Malinowski is Washington Advocacy Director of Human Rights Watch, Washington, D.C. and offered the very best advice to start driving the Junta to the international negotiating table -- simply enact quick legislation to compel the cancellation of their credit cards, by prohibiting immediately any dealings with any banks authorizing use of Burmese Government and Junta and Families Credit Cards. Legislation would enact immediately and severe legal penalties could be assessed to any American Company or business trading with the banks that do business with the Junta.

The additional step of freezing their offshore accounts would have them out of the Jungle in no time.

Neither India nor China would even be involved -- though they should be. Even Chinese and Japanese payments for oil would be frozen in these off shore banks.

I agree with Tom Malinowski:

Cancel the Burmese Junta's Credit Cards; freeze their offshore accounts. I think they would be at the table within 48 hours. This might stop the killing and the violence.

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Congress has not acted.

Do you think we will see anymore here than a wringing of hands. Only the Armenian families remember the genocide of the Turks in WW I.

Will Congress do anything on this? The seizure of money by freezing the assets is exactly what to do. Will congress get it?