Posted on 08/05/2006 8:49:17 AM PDT by oxcart
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) --
Former revolutionaries promised to keep fighting for Cuba on Saturday as the island beefed up security, saying it fears a U.S. attack during Fidel Castro's health crisis. The government, under the control of Castro's brother, Defense Minister Raul Castro, has mobilized citizen defense militias and asked military reservists to check in daily.
The White House has insisted no such threat exists, with press secretary Tony Snow dismissing the suggestion that the United States would attack the island as "absurd."
The Communist Party daily newspaper Granma issued a statement by the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution on its front page.
"We will continue working with the same revolutionary fervor that you taught us," the veterans' group assured Castro. It also expressed confidence that Castro would be back on his feet soon.
Cubans interviewed on state-run media also said Friday they would fight to the death against any invaders from the north, while the Communist Party daily Granma said, "We Cubans are prepared for the defense" of the island.
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Note to Cuba: The US has much bigger fish to fry than worrying about your little island.
Frankly the Cuban people are likely to be a lot more appreciative of liberation, than a certain mideast country...
Yea...ummm, if we really wanted it we would have taken it a long time ago. And how does Cube prepare to fight off the strongest millitary in the world; build sandbag tranches,and make plenty of PB&J sandwitches.
Hahahaha...The mouse that roared?
I really should wake up before posting
What a bunch of morons. Enough said.
sorry, I am inept, totally, totally inept.
We are going to be busy for the next couple years!
I used to know a couple of sandwitches hung out on the beach:). They were kind of cute.
Dictators publish invasion fantasies in order to solidify their wandering vassals and serfs around them for "protection".
"Come into the castle; the Cossacks are coming!" "Where? I don't see any." "Do as I say, or else!"
Cuban navy?
A bit presumptuous, aren't they? LOL!
Let the paranoia begin.
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Paranoia is a standard symptom of communism. If the USA had wanted to crush that filthy regime, it could have done so many decades ago. It is almost amusing that these commies are still saying they are still fighting a revolution...for over forty years? Who are they fighting?? (chuckle)
In a very perverse way, it is funny.
This is to intimidate the pro-democracy movement within Cuba, pure and simple.
More like "fearing riots and a total breakdown of order, the regime decides to change the subject."
Wow. That picture is worth a thousand words. Castroism wins friends the same way Islam gets converts: by fear and force and with death threats and actual death.
You know, after the war they think we're going to start with them?
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