[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18480]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       MILITARY COUP IN THAILAND

  (Mr. KIRK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIRK. Madam Speaker, news reports indicate that there may be an 
ongoing military coup under way in Thailand against the democratically 
elected government.
  As a new member of the National Endowment for Democracy's board, I 
think we should take all threats to new democracies very seriously and 
lay out a clear policy for the United States to follow. We should 
support the democratic Prime Minister of Thailand. And if military 
forces succeed, it should be the policy of our State Department to 
terminate all U.S. assistance to Thailand.
  It should be the policy of our Treasury Department to undermine the 
Bot, the Thai currency; it should be the policy of the Department of 
Defense to cease all military contact with the Thai military; and it 
should be the policy of our government in general to undermine military 
rulers in Thailand and return a democratically elected Prime Minister 
to office.

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