http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/19/castro/index.html
The fact that he’s leaving on his own terms must have Jesse Helms rolling over in his grave …wait, he’s not dead.
I sent this to my Bushie friend. He responded with some mumbo jumbo as expected. I responded:
That’s funny coming from the guy who feels that a couple hundred thousand dead Iraqi’s (or a million Sudanese) is no big deal. Now you get all righteous despite the fact that the US is holding people in Cuba without trial, without lawyers, without charges, in a made up “legal” status b/c they are “enemies of the state”. (which seems to be the same stuff we hate Castro for doing)
Castro could have been ousted 30 years ago, if we had sold Cuba Levi’s and Fords. The far Right’s (led by pissed off Cubans in Miami who liked their dictator better) irrational fear of Castro empowered him for decades. (for an example of how to stay in power using a common enemy of the state, look at Bush’s more subtle efforts to subvert the Constitution over the past 7 years).
Also ironic since Castro came to America for help when first in power before he ever went to Russia, but because he was a socialist all those lives were lost in a senseless pissing contest.
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