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Fidel Castro Steps Down...
NYT via Drudge ^ | February 19, 2008

Posted on 02/18/2008 11:43:05 PM PST by silentknight

Fidel Castro Steps Down...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Cuba; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breaking; castro; commierat; commies; communist; cuba; deathwatch; dictator; dictators; exdictator; fidel; free; goodriddance; hesalreadydead; murderer; president; reds; resigns; retirement; theend
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To: silentknight

That’s awfully generous of him considering he’s at room temperature.


181 posted on 02/19/2008 6:59:28 AM PST by omega4179 (Democrats would rather rule in hell than serve America!)
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To: silentknight

Hell, I’m going to outlast the old sob after all.

Almost bittersweet now—vaya con Dios comrade.


182 posted on 02/19/2008 7:20:34 AM PST by Natchez Hawk (What's so funny about the first, second, and fourth Amendments?)
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To: silentknight

He probably needed the extra time to work on the Obama campaign.


183 posted on 02/19/2008 7:24:46 AM PST by Huber (And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. - John 1:5)
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To: silentknight

I woke up at 3:30 this morning. I felt like something must have happened, because I don’t usually do that.

I flipped on the TV and they were talking about it.

You wouldn’t believe all the boneheads from our country who called CSPUN, talking about how Castro was such a good leader and how we should have better education and health care like they do.

If it was so great, then why did those people keep on drifting over here in broken down boats and rafts?

Another thing I don’t get is the whole embargo thing.

The way I understand it, the embargo was because of communism and human rights issues.

If that’s the case, then why was China given MFN status?

We trade with all kinds of nations that abuse their population, so why the embargo on Cuba? I’m not saying it should be lifted by any means, I just can’t help but wonder why other countries aren’t judged as harshly as Cuba.

I don’t see this as a momentous occasion that will allow any great change in the country.

Castro was a dictator that replaced another dictator via a bloody revolution. He will just be replaced with another dictator.


184 posted on 02/19/2008 7:25:50 AM PST by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: jjm2111

I was wondering if Raul stuffed him in a box last year...


185 posted on 02/19/2008 7:27:14 AM PST by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: rogue yam
One prays for his repentance. It’s Christianity 101.
186 posted on 02/19/2008 7:31:17 AM PST by Huber (And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. - John 1:5)
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To: Ronin
Can you imagine the planeloads of Classic car buffs heading down there with wads of cash and gleams in their eyes?

Count me as one of those who's been thinking of those cars in Cuba for YEARS.

Maybe some of us will get a chance at them if Ron Pratte doesn't buy the good ones out from under us all.

187 posted on 02/19/2008 7:33:51 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: silentknight

Wooo-hoooo!

Are they sure he’s not dead?


188 posted on 02/19/2008 7:45:16 AM PST by G8 Diplomat
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To: rottndog
Thanks for pointing me to drudge. Now I can do something really important, like look at naked pictures of Lindsay Lohan.

Are those pictures located at the "Bad Meat Alert" link? ;^)

189 posted on 02/19/2008 7:48:01 AM PST by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: NavyCanDo
CLASSIC CAR RESTORERS - REJOICE!

I call dibs on the Mercedes Gullwing.

190 posted on 02/19/2008 7:50:04 AM PST by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: silentknight
The best gift a dictator thug can get is to be an American enemy. Especially if he is brought to power with the American help. It did not worked quiete well for Saddam, Noriega, Shah, but worked like charm for Fidel and Ho Chi Minh.

When he was a kid, Fidel wrote a letter to FDR and asked for $5 note to see "how American money looks like".

It was a beginning of a very fruitful cooperation, paid by the millions of Cubans.

Castro will die of boredom, Before he dies, he will probably give highway salute towards JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, as well as to Jimmuh, Poppy, BJ and W, his business partners.

The thug outlasted them all.

191 posted on 02/19/2008 7:52:05 AM PST by DTA (Advice to Condi: when you are in a hole, stop digging)
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To: DTA
The thug outlasted them all.

The media gloat-fest is going to be absolutely disgusting.

192 posted on 02/19/2008 7:54:53 AM PST by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: silentknight
“I neither will aspire to nor will I accept — I repeat — I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief,” wrote the Cuban leader, who had been in power for almost 50 years.


"I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."

193 posted on 02/19/2008 8:05:25 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("How [Obama] stumbled onto Walter Mondale's political philosophy is beyond me." —Tony Blankley)
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To: silentknight

Ping for coming back to see more of these hilarious pictures!


194 posted on 02/19/2008 8:13:22 AM PST by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: silentknight

Good riddance to bad rubbish!! Too bad things are unlikely to change anytime soon there — I’m sure the CP and the military are ready to keep the people on a very tight LEASH ......

The scumbag Castro has been in power my entire life, I was born in ‘59........ so sad to think of what the Cuban people might have enjoyed by now without that POS running things into the ground.


195 posted on 02/19/2008 8:26:26 AM PST by Enchante (Democrats: we'll send Brezinski to Damascus, that's our foreign policy!!)
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To: DTA

It was Great Britain, along with the Soviet Union, that put Shah Reza Pahlavi on the throne in the aftermath of the invasion of Iran in 1941, and were the ones who suggested to the U.S. to conduct operation Ajax to overthrow Mossadegh, and participated in the effort. They also put his father on the throne by organizing a coup in Iran in 1921.


196 posted on 02/19/2008 8:28:07 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Charles Martel
Are those pictures located at the "Bad Meat Alert" link? ;^)

I don't think Lindsay has quite reached the Brittney stage yet...
197 posted on 02/19/2008 8:31:51 AM PST by rottndog (This Tagline currently closed for maintenance and rehabilitation.)
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To: silentknight

bttt


198 posted on 02/19/2008 8:39:37 AM PST by nicmarlo
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To: Enchante

One good thing about my age is I will get to see the Castro 100% dead in my lifetime.

Please hurry up. ....

OK I know we had a deal not to off Castro, does that include his brother?


199 posted on 02/19/2008 8:45:13 AM PST by Goldwater and Gingrich
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To: nicmarlo

Did the sHrill one’s speech really mis-state that Castro’s one-man rule lasted for 58 years instead of 49? I’ll bet she’s spent too much time poring over Obama’s kindergarten records to pay much attention to fact-checking, LOL!


200 posted on 02/19/2008 9:12:14 AM PST by alwaysconservative (The "Run Hillary Run" bumpersticker: on the back bumper for Dems, on the front for Republicans!)
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