Posted on 01/30/2009 12:24:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
HAVANA -- Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro demanded on Thursday that President Barack Obama return the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo to Cuba without conditions, and he accused the new U.S. leader of supporting "Israeli genocide" against Palestinians.
Castro, who had recently praised Obama as "honest" and "noble", lashed out at his administration for stating that Washington will not return Guantanamo if it has any military use for the United States and without concessions in return.
"Maintaining a military base in Cuba against the will of the people violates the most elemental principles of international law," Castro wrote in a column posted on the government-run website www.cubadebate.cu.
"Not respecting Cuba's will is an arrogant act and an abuse of immense power against a little country," Castro said, resorting to a charge he has leveled against the 10 previous U.S. presidents since he came to power in a 1959 revolution.
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Give him Biden and call it even...
Molon labe, stinkbeard.
Well, he’s asking the right President. If ever was a man who’d sell out his nation to kiss a thug’s ass...
I was just thinking the same thing.
Even that idiot JFK didn’t consider giving such a strategic Naval base to the Communists. But THIS guy?
Who knows.
Hey if Carter I gave away the Panama Canal, why can’t Carter II give away GITMO???
Carter gave away the Panama Canal. Obama needs this as a way of topping him.
Smokescreen.
The Castro brothers’ love for Obama was becoming too blatantly obvious.
When you give Cuba back to the Cubans, Mr. Castro, then we’ll talk.
Give him Miami while your at it.
This is Castro’s way of saying, “Listen, maricon, not only am I still alive but I’ve outlasted ten gringo presidentes and you’re going to be numero eleven!”
Returning Guantanamo to Cuban sovereignty would require abrogation of an international treaty, a step which I think even Obama would shrink from.
He’s dead, Jim.
“Soon, he and his brother will be paying for their enormous crimes.”
Loong overdue payment, yes indeed...doesn’t he recognize Obomber as one of his own? All he needs to do is give him a little time...
Although Castro has been unhappy about the U.S. Navy presence at Gitmo since the 1959 coup, he never dared make such a blatant public demand during the terms of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton and Bush 43. Yet Obama has been in office 10 days and Castro is publicly demanding that the U.S. totally abandon its rights to the naval base at Guantanamo, rights that are more than a century old.
And obozo & bidet say after doing obeisance, “oh, yes sir as soon as possible, and what else can we do for our friends like you.”
oh, NO.......will obama be another carter?
After all, Russian needs a base...
15 minutes after the last Marine leaves, the Russian Navy will move in....
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