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Obama lifts U.S. arms ban on Vietnam
CNN ^ | 5/23/16 | Tiffany Ap, etc

Posted on 05/23/2016 3:26:54 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

....Obama has announced that the United States is fully lifting the ban on the sale of military equipment to Vietnam, which has been in place for decades.

In a joint news conference with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, Obama said that the removal of the ban on lethal weapons w

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armstovietnam; china; guns; hypocrite; obamavietnam; vietnam
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To: Sooth2222

Plus also China is trying to make their moves because they KNOW Obama is leaving soon, and with Trump most likely going to win the WH come this November, time is not on their side.


21 posted on 05/23/2016 4:39:47 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: VTenigma

,,,,, we have no legislative branch in our government today . We have 535 people in Congress who might as well be sitting in a rubber room collecting salaries and making their own deals to advance their own personal lives . No wonder Trump has a following . Will he fall in line with this bunch of useless cronies once in office ??? We are screwed big time if he does .


22 posted on 05/23/2016 4:40:29 AM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: ISIS is Islam without the lipstick :-()
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To: SoFloFreeper

That piece of sh!t doesn’t want US citizens to have arms, but wants to sell thm to our former enemies. When he said “fundamentally change America” What he meant was “fundamentally destroy America” Any jackasses who voted for him the second time are just as much enemies of America as he is. (fool me once etc.)


23 posted on 05/23/2016 4:45:41 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Stevenc131

Quote:

“Wants to give Vietnamese communists guns, outlaw guns for Americans.”

Right out of a George Carlin routine.


24 posted on 05/23/2016 4:49:59 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Pres. Hussein wants to give arms to Vietnam for making him so happy. His side won, afterall.


25 posted on 05/23/2016 4:57:41 AM PDT by Stepan12
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Pres. Hussein wants to give arms to Vietnam for making him so happy. His side won, afterall.


26 posted on 05/23/2016 4:57:55 AM PDT by Stepan12
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To: TTFlyer

Drudge should put that quote on his website under one of these stories


28 posted on 05/23/2016 5:03:12 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Stevenc131

Charlie gets his guns...


29 posted on 05/23/2016 5:04:08 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: VTenigma
The Congress of the United States will love it. They will swoon and orgasm over this just as they do every time he farts. They cannot service him enough. By they, I mean Republicans.
30 posted on 05/23/2016 5:05:46 AM PDT by sport
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To: Flag_This

Somebody in our govt has got a geopolitical strategy of chest bumping both China and Russia

Not sure what they hope to gain

The joke will be on us when China makes its currency move

But Apparently the 1970’s called and wanted its geopolitical games to resume


31 posted on 05/23/2016 5:06:15 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: from occupied ga

“Any jackasses who voted for him the second time are just as much enemies of America as he is. (fool me once etc.)”

Right you are, anyone that I come upon that I find out vote for him a second time, is invisible to me, I will not do business with that person, because I instantly consider IT to be an enemy of MY personnel freedom. And if IT voted because IT was too stupid to know it is better not to deal with such stupid people.


32 posted on 05/23/2016 5:17:42 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Spiking the ball...

It’s quite possible that he’s trying to destroy the Democrats, to make way for his Globalist Agenda.


33 posted on 05/23/2016 5:18:15 AM PDT by IncPen (Hey Media: Bias = Layoffs)
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To: broken_arrow1

“And...all you Vietnam veterans who brought back souvenir guns which you ripped from the dying hands of North Vietnamese patriots who were trying to defend their socialist homeland from American imperialism...yeah, you guys.”

“Well, those rifles and pistols which you stole still belong to the Vietnamese people, and I am calling on you to turn them in to the government so we can return them to their rightful owners.”

Don’t rule it out.


34 posted on 05/23/2016 5:19:14 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: exit82
How does the little Mussolini have the power to unilaterally change LAW?

The answer to your question is in your question.

35 posted on 05/23/2016 5:26:33 AM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali soli o feccia.)
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To: Flag_This
Hussein does NOT like CHina. In this he seems a tad conflicted. He hates America and seems to boost America's enemies but his upbringing in Indonesia would have included a lot of Indonesian animosity toward China and the Chinese. And China is not Moslem, is, in facr anti Moslem in that it wisely suppreses its own Moslem population. All told that must set up a certain amount of confusion in his mind.

That said, I believe that the decision to sell arms to Viet Nam is a good one. We cannot afford to cede the South Sea to China. That would put all surface trade in SEA and a huge portion of world trade under the control of China. In the case of war, either great power war or local war involving China, ceding control of that area is like ceding the Atlantic to the Kaiser in 1913.

36 posted on 05/23/2016 5:34:39 AM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali soli o feccia.)
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To: arthurus

Let’s see, the skinny git has armed ISIS and Al Queda, approved Irans path for nuclear weapons and now openly arms communist governments. He probably offered Cuba a few icbm’s when he was there kissing their aszes a few months ago. vietnams on again off again chumminess with china and russia ensures all weapons will end up in these countries hands to be reverse engineered. Only one word for this activity, treason, and there is a fix for treasonous actions in the law already. Time for congress to dust off the law books, but they won’t.


37 posted on 05/23/2016 5:41:55 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: SoFloFreeper

My first thought when I heard this was yeah, but he sure as hell won’t allow us to import OUR M-1 Garands that are still in Korea.


38 posted on 05/23/2016 5:45:01 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: redcatcherb412

——Only one word for this activity, treason——

There is another, “flanking action”

The reason for the original action in Viet Nam was to flank the Russian incursion in Indo China. The same is true now except the enemy being flanked is China and the Chinese Navy

Ironically, the end in viet Nam came after Kissinger opened up China and it became the flanking force to curb Russian expansion


39 posted on 05/23/2016 5:47:52 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: SoFloFreeper
And Obama again did what he does best, kissed another totalitarian’s butt.
40 posted on 05/23/2016 5:48:52 AM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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