Posted on 12/10/2007 8:16:00 AM PST by lesser_satan
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But the Fred Thompson campaign just sent out a reminder to reporters about Mike Huckabee’s more lenient attitude toward Fidel Castro.
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Huckabee: Mr. President, Lift the Cuban Embargo
Summary: In 2002, Governor Huckabee strongly advocated lifting the embargo against Cuba saying it “harm[s] our own agricultural and business interests,” “has not helped the people of Cuba” and has “provided Castro with a convenient excuse for his own failed system of government.”
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“‘The United States’ policy of unilateral embargo against Cuba continues to harm our own agricultural and business interests here at home and has certainly not helped the people of Cuba,’ Huckabee wrote in his Feb. 14 letter [to President Bush]. It’s not right to continue to make American farmers bear the burden of a policy that hasn’t worked, he said. Huckabee cited a study by Texas A&M University reporting that the embargo hurt Arkansas more than other states, costing Arkansas lost farm exports of $ 167 million a year and a loss of almost 4,000 jobs.” (Michael Wickline, “End of Cuban Trade Embargo Benefits Children, Snyder Says,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 3/29/02)
“In a letter to President Bush, Mr. Huckabee wrote, ‘U.S. policy on Cuba has not accomplished its stated goal of toppling the Castro regime and instead has provided Castro with a convenient excuse for his own failed system of government.’” (Letters, “Time To End Embargo Against Cuba,” Washington Times, 2/27/02)
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Huck is making Rudy McRomney look like a pantheon of consistency.
Huckster bump!
I think while Rudy McRomney is just pandering for political expediency, Huck is just so clueless he doesn't remember what his own positions are.
The embargo has “provided Castro with a convenient excuse for his own failed system of government.”
True.
Has anyone actually seen Jimmy Carter and The Huckster in the same room at the same time?
If Cuba's Communism provides real benefits, why is it's economy in such horrible shape just because it can't trade with one Capitalist nation.
Hmmm...good question!
What we really need is a constitutional ammendment disqualifying any governor of Arkansas from running for the presidency. Sure could’ve used that one back in 1992.
The US threatens, with economic sanctions, any nation that trades with Cuba. At least I think that's how the story goes.
Funny, I don't recall any ongoing sanctions against our Canadian brethren...
Canada trades openly with Cuba. Mexico trades openly with Cuba.
SO who are we supposedly threatening with sanctions if they trade with Cuba?
My vague memory must have been about the Helms-Burton Act sanctions against foreign companies (not nations) that trade in certain ways with Cuba:
“In 1996, Congress mistakenly raised the embargo to a new level with passage of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act. Known as the Helms-Burton act, it threatens to punish foreign-based companies that allegedly engage in the “wrongful trafficking in property confiscated by the Castro regime.” The law is legally flawed because it allows U.S. courts to rule on actions of parties who were not U.S. citizens and were not in the United States when the alleged offense took place. As a foreign-policy tool, the law perversely punishes, not the Castro regime itself, but some of our closest commercial allies such as Canada and the European Union.”
http://www.freetrade.org/node/433
Some of you people can’t be serious. The only people who believe Castro’s line about the damaging effect of Cuba are rich upper eastside liberals who have no clue (and now, big gubmit Republicans from Arkansas).
Cuba trades with nearly ever other country in the world. Furthermore, many countries we do trade with are in just as bad or worse off than Cuba is.
Mitt and Romney fighting over the religious vote could open the door again to Rudy or McCain.
Fred has little room to talk since he voted for permanent normal trade relations with Red China.
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