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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts) Sat Dec 27, 2014, 01:29 PM Dec 2014

US mission in Havana to become embassy amid thaw

FILE - This Dec. 17, 2014 file photo shows a classic American car driving past the U.S. Interests Section buidling in Havana, Cuba. A half-century after Washington severed relations with Cuba, the seven-story mission is set to become a full-fledged embassy. The U.S. and Cuba announced on Dec. 17, 2014 they are re-establishing full diplomatic relations. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Once details of the new diplomatic relationship are worked, actually turning the mission into an embassy requires little more than changing a few signs and ordering a new letterhead, experts said.

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US mission in Havana to become embassy amid thaw (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Dec 2014 OP

Normalizing relations with Cuba is an excellent move by President Obama. Scuba Dec 2014 #1

Good! Congress will have a tough time justifying its closure or not funding it riderinthestorm Dec 2014 #2

Congress refuses to fund the change...so Obama pays for the new stationary and sign with his pocket Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #3

Oh I know he has. Agreed. This was a good move by Obama. riderinthestorm Dec 2014 #4

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

1. Normalizing relations with Cuba is an excellent move by President Obama.

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 01:32 PM

Dec 2014

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)

2. Good! Congress will have a tough time justifying its closure or not funding it

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 01:33 PM

Dec 2014

Since it's been up and running by the State Department since 1977.

Good choice by Obama to just change the signage and letterhead...

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

3. Congress refuses to fund the change...so Obama pays for the new stationary and sign with his pocket

Reply to riderinthestorm (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 02:15 PM

Dec 2014

change...do not tell me Obama has not thought out the process of establishing an embassy even as the GOP clown trains rolls in to town and controls the single digit job approval Congress.

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)

4. Oh I know he has. Agreed. This was a good move by Obama.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 02:31 PM

Dec 2014

When the Rethugs refuse to continue to fund this operation, that they've BEEN funding since '77, then its just another example of their reflex obstructionism of anything Obama does.

And very, very obvious. Even the Miami Cubans shoud squirm at this.

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