Posted on 12/18/2014 6:37:11 AM PST by BlatherNaut
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says he's glad that American "hostage" Alan Gross has been released from a Cuban prison after five years, but he opposes the process by which his release was secured -- "because it puts a price on every American abroad."
"Governments now know that if they can take an American hostage, they can get very significant concessions from the United States."
As part of the deal to free Gross, the United States will release three Cuban spies: "They're not just benign Cuban spies," Rubio -- the son of Cuban exiles -- told Fox News on Wednesday. "These Cuban spies were involved in providing information to the Cuban government that led to the murder of U.S. citizens in the infamous shootdown of the Brothers to the Rescue aircraft back in 1996.
"These were airplanes that used to patrol the Straits of Cuba to find people on rafts and save their lives. The Cuban government shot them down over international waters and they did so largely based on information that at least one of these spies provided them. These spies will now get a hero's welcome in Cuba."
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I will bet the Mob is licking their chops over the prospect of returning to Pre-Castro Days of Prostitution, Gambling, Wining and Dining in beachside Hotels and Resorts with cheap overhead. Keep an eye on this as the leading beneficiary of this new policy.
Didn’t the Congress pass laws which established the Cuban embargo. Didn’t Clown Prince nobama just ignore and break those laws. Can you spell dictator? Where is Congress?
If Obama had been POTUS during the Iran Hostage Crisis there would no doubt be an Ayatollah in charge of New York and New Jersey now.
When was Cuba not run by gangsters?
This is Obama's strategy. He just keeps piling it on, while Boehner and his band of traitors can't even keep track of what issue to cave on next. This strategy makes it very difficult for constitutional conservatives to coalesce around an issue to oppose the backstabbers.
I assume you're correct. The Chamber of Commerce and corporate crowd does very well with this.
I guess we can look at the whole world and say they same thing.
So, when do we get Elian back? Er, uh, when will he be free to travel to see his family in Florida?
Yes.... by design.
Obama wants to go to Cuba and Worship Fidel in Person
I’m pretty sure that it’s not any exchange of spies that is bringing this little fiasco to fruition. This is a repudiation of the Kennedy Democrat, plain and simple. With the new vigor in the Occupy crowd, the party is going for purity and revolution.
I hope their old guard sees it before they get put in the ground by the progressives, but I’m not holding my breath.
Another of Obama’s childish ways to punish people for not voting his way on the mid terms he’s a master of screw ups.
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