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Cuba hails wargame warning to US
Yahoo News....AFP ^ | Wednesday December 15, 1:59 AM

Posted on 12/14/2004 10:51:27 AM PST by Puckster

Cuba pressed on with its biggest military exercises in almost 20 years, with 400,000 reservists joining regular forces and millions of civilians in wargames which the authorities say are to deter a US invasion.

About 100,000 Cuban regular troops are also taking part in the "Bastion 2004" exercises which started Monday, officials said.

"The enemy will never catch us by surprise," the official communist party daily, Granma, trumpeted Tuesday in its coverage of the wargames which proceeded as ailing President Castro welcomed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, his only close ally in the Americas, whose government helps keep Cuba's energy-starved economy afloat with cut-rate oil.

"The only way to stop aggression is to make it abundantly clear that, in this case, Cuba will become from one end to the other an enormous wasp's nest that no aggressor, however powerful, will be able to overcome," Defense Minister Raul Castro said Monday.

"In the end, (the aggressor) will have to withdraw, bloodied and defeated, because this would be a war of all of the people," Castro, a younger brother of President Fidel Castro, warned.


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And we thought the Liberals where going nucking futs!
1 posted on 12/14/2004 10:51:28 AM PST by Puckster
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I wonder if Cuba can even feed its entire army on maneuvers...


2 posted on 12/14/2004 10:53:41 AM PST by 2banana (They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Puckster
These numbnuts chose to rattle their sabers when the US military is stretched thin in the Middle East and Central Asia.

LOL at the numbnuts.
3 posted on 12/14/2004 10:55:50 AM PST by Reaganez
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“The enemy will never catch us by surprise…In the end, (the aggressor) will have to withdraw, bloodied and defeated”

This is like me swearing that there's no way I'm letting Anna Kournikova get into my pants.

4 posted on 12/14/2004 10:55:51 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Castro is having millions of civilians taking part in wargames?

In other words, giving free military training to nonmembers of the party?

That doesn't sound like the wisest decision for a dictator to make.

5 posted on 12/14/2004 10:56:34 AM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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Cuba will become from one end to the other an enormous wasp's nest that no aggressor, however powerful, will be able to overcome," Defense Minister Raul Castro said Monday.

6 posted on 12/14/2004 10:57:11 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: 2banana
Bet they're just foraging for something to eat, only they call it maneuvers.
7 posted on 12/14/2004 10:57:31 AM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus to his sons)
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"Your not paying enough attention to me!" </impotent sabre rattling>
8 posted on 12/14/2004 10:58:59 AM PST by bikepacker67 ("This is the best election night in history." -- DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe 11/2/04 8pm)
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To: Billthedrill

Hey Baghdad Bob,

I'll bring a big big can of extra strength RAID!


9 posted on 12/14/2004 10:59:03 AM PST by HMFIC (US Marines, you yell, we shell.)
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To: Reaganez

El Presidente' must be traveling down the last legs of insanity prior to death.

This has as much credibility of "Anna Kournikova get into my pants"........just kidding " dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)"


10 posted on 12/14/2004 10:59:23 AM PST by Puckster
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Have to get to work kids..........have fun!


11 posted on 12/14/2004 11:01:49 AM PST by Puckster
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To: dead

I'm letting Anna Kournikova get into my pants.
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"Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
you are as wacko as wacko can be" !!!


12 posted on 12/14/2004 11:02:32 AM PST by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
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Darn, I guess we will have to put off our invasion for another year....


13 posted on 12/14/2004 11:05:06 AM PST by Always Right
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Speaking of Madness!

To help prevent multiple postings, please do not change titles.

14 posted on 12/14/2004 11:05:29 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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An island of '50's automobiles rattling sabers?

I kiwl you a miwwwion times. I wip you to shweds.

Roar!

15 posted on 12/14/2004 11:08:12 AM PST by N. Theknow (Merry Christmas!)
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To: dead

Why the hell would you do a thing like that?


16 posted on 12/14/2004 11:09:41 AM PST by BJClinton (the Perfect Rovian Storm)
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To: dead

Okay, so it will take 3 sticks of SEALS rather than the 2 I previously thought.


17 posted on 12/14/2004 11:10:37 AM PST by Frumious Bandersnatch
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forget the invasion, Cuba will crumble from within. Just a matter of time.


18 posted on 12/14/2004 11:11:41 AM PST by fish hawk
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If the US ever decided to invade Cuba, it would be over before it began... The real question is, why the hell would we even want to invade Cuba?


19 posted on 12/14/2004 11:12:59 AM PST by HamiltonJay ("You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.")
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Why the hell would you do a thing like that?

I was lying, but if it ever comes to pass, that’s really a question you should ask Anna!

20 posted on 12/14/2004 11:19:24 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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