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Castro: 'I Will Die Fighting' if U.S. Invades Cuba
Reuters ^ | January 30 2004 | Anthony Boadle

Posted on 01/30/2004 5:39:21 AM PST by fdsa2

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To: fdsa2
"...if they invade us, I will die fighting,"

Let's see,

Correcto Mundo!

Give that man a seegar!

No $hit $herlock!

Brilliant Observation!

Fidel is very astute to figure out that he would die, talk about forgone conclusions...
41 posted on 01/30/2004 7:08:36 AM PST by Bad Dog2 (Bad Dog - No Biscuit)
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To: fdsa2
What is he going to do at his age other than drool and fart at the first specal forces officer that points a gun at him. Another talking tough third world dic.
42 posted on 01/30/2004 7:13:02 AM PST by Trueblackman (It is enough to make you smile and gloat)
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To: fdsa2
"....if they invade us, I will die"

you bet you will
43 posted on 01/30/2004 7:13:14 AM PST by kt56
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
"That's it... sleep deprivation, lack of nourishment, infuse him with a paranoia so all encompassing, that he has a stroke, within weeks! :)"

Better yet, set up a Poltergeist Machine near him, and just let it go for a few days. He'd be so nutty after that experience! Suicide would become possible.

Poltergeist machine.

44 posted on 01/30/2004 7:39:58 AM PST by 11B3 (America FIRST, Mr President. Remember your OATH OF OFFICE???)
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To: fdsa2
Castro said Cuba was prepared to resist invasion, with "hundreds of thousands" of soldiers ready to defend the island with guerrilla tactics he had used in the Sierra Maestra mountains to defeat a dictator's army and seize power in 1959.

After 45 years of Castro's (mis)rule, I doubt that many Cubans would be sufficiently motivated to risk their @sses against US Forces. Besides, I understand that Castro's revolutionary combat exploits were greatly embellished after-the-fact. Mostly, the Commandantes couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag.

45 posted on 01/30/2004 7:50:38 AM PST by Tallguy (Does anybody really think that Saddam's captor really said "Pres. Bush sends his regards"?)
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To: TheGeezer
Let's anagram this thing here...

Fidel Castro = DOCILE FARTS

46 posted on 01/30/2004 10:48:13 AM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: fdsa2
With a gun in his hand, Depends on his arse, and not a coherent thought in his head.

"If we want you dead Fidel, we know right where to find you...."

47 posted on 01/30/2004 10:52:05 AM PST by Dead Corpse (For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
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To: LibFreeUSA
LOL! Thanks for the chuckle!
48 posted on 01/30/2004 11:44:37 AM PST by TheGeezer
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040130/wl_afp/cuba_castro_bush_040130161558

Castro accuses Bush of plotting to assassinate him

HAVANA (AFP) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro (news - web sites) accused US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) of ordering his assassination and vowed to "go down fighting" if there was a US invasion.


In a five hour speech, Cuba's 77-year-old communist president shot down rumours about his health and heightened his attacks on the "belligerent behavior" of the United States and its leader.


"We knew that Mr. Bush had made a commitment with the mafia of the Cuban-American Foundation to kill me. I accuse him of this," Castro told some 1,000 representatives from 32 nations attending a conference in Havana against the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas.


"This dead man can still talk. This dead man can make plans. This dead man ... is not dead yet," Castro said Friday.


Castro has been at the centre of rumours about his health since the mayor of Bogota, Luis Eduardo Garzon, said after a recent visit to Cuba that he had found Castro "very sick" and "physically limited".


Castro said that Bush had conspired with the anti-communist Cuban-American community in Florida to kill him.


Tensions have been rising again between the United States and Cuba in recent month with Bush entering into a re-election campaign and Castro cracking down on the pro-democracy opposition in the island he has ruled for 45 years.


Castro said that Cuba does not want "a war (against) Yankee imperialism" but he insisted that the communist "will not budge at all from our principles."


The Cuban leader was given thunderous applause when he said: "I am not asking to survive a war. I've already done my part and I still have to do what I have to do. With weapons in hand, I don't care how I die, but I'm confident that if they invade us, I will go down fighting."


He went on "These idiots had better not believe we're wasting our time, because we really work at our job. This country will never give up. It will never lay down its weapons."


Castro spent much of his improvised address discussing the history of North and South America and the world, criticizing "neo-liberal capitalism" and globalization.


But he also spent 45 minutes reading news agency reports of what he called "hostile" statements by senior US officials.


Bush has set up a special government commission to monitor events in Cuba and at a recent summit of the Americas in Mexico called on other leaders to work for a speedy and peaceful transition to democracy in Cuba.


The US administration has also sought to increase pressure on Latin American nations which it considers have been too friendly with Castro.


Roger Noriega, the US under secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, recently accused Cuba of "actions to destabilize Latin America (that) are increasingly provocative to the inter-American community."


He has said that the United States will quickly send aid to Cuba after Castro's death.


"Castro will not live forever and there will be democratic change and a democratic government in Cuba," Noriega said. "The stakes are very high for us."


Cuba has in turn stepped up island-wide preparations for any kind of attack from the United States.

The 130,000 committees of the defence of the revolution and other local organisations have been told to "step up revolutionary vigilance".

The Cuban parliament, highlighting what it called the "increasing aggressiveness of the United States" has ordered an increase in defence spending, which had been cut in recent years.


49 posted on 01/30/2004 1:00:51 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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