Posted on 04/08/2009 7:56:54 AM PDT by ToddThurman
China did not support the VC, Vietnam was a Soviet client. In fact, Vietnam and China had a short war in 1979. China did support the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, which had their government overthrown by Vietnam.
Barbara Lee has been a Castro mole for many years.
And what is the magic transformation that US $ would bring that hasn’t been brought by billions of Canadian $, English pounds, Japense yen, and Spanish pesetas?
Do you not undersrtand that Castro doesn’t want trade with the US — he wants access to billions in the IMF that he can’t get to unless we lift the embargo?
The embargo only allows Fidel say it’s Americas fault that we are the problem.
Cuba’s trade with the rest of the world is nil, [America]by being so close and allowing travel it would bring economic freedom to them.
You are quite wrong.
Cuba’s trade with the rest of the world is HUGE. Tourism from other countries — especially Canada and Mexico and Spain and Germany — is HUGE.
I’ve been there, seen it, studied it.
If you want exiles in South Florida running your countries policy because they swing the votes of Florida so be it. Trade is a benefit for all countries. Either you like it or not.
I hear you; and I think this group should really be investigated.
What you have written is the party line line of the Left — so I find that disappointing. I also find it disappointing that you offer a snide remark “if you ‘ve seen it, it must be true” instead of making the slightest effort to deal with what are objective facts.
If my choice is between “exiles” — people who have lived in the communist slave camp and escaped, and therefore are informed — and a completely uninformed person who parrots bromides and received ideas — I’ll go with the informed every time.
What's truly ironic is that the Castro brothers run Cuba like a huge sugar & tobacco plantation, complete with slave labor, and yet the CBC swoons over how the island is run. Castro takes them all to a Potemkin village complete with happy workers singing in the fields, and they believe it's all real.
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