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Cuba Releases American Prisoner, Beginning Major Thaw in U.S. Relations
National Journal ^ | December 17, 2014 | Matt Berman,Kaveh Waddell

Posted on 12/17/2014 9:08:53 AM PST by Biggirl

December 17, 2014 U.S.-Cuba relations, tense for half a century, are about to fundamentally change.

Alan Gross, the American contractor who has been imprisoned in Cuba since 2009, will be released to the United States by the Cuban government, the White House announced Wednesday. The so-called "humanitarian release" will coincide with an exchange of three Cubans convicted of espionage in Miami for one unnamed U.S. intelligence asset.

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americanprisoner; cuba; popefrancis
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To: cripplecreek

You mean money that’s private property? You got a problem with that?


21 posted on 12/17/2014 9:50:57 AM PST by Romulus
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

LOL


22 posted on 12/17/2014 9:51:49 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Romulus
You mean money that’s private property? You got a problem with that?

Yes I've got a problem with propping communists up. If you want to craw under Castro's desk so bad, get your pathetic ass down there and service him in person.
23 posted on 12/17/2014 9:58:00 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: Biggirl

Obama seems to believe that his anti-American “deals” will not take much flak so long as he gets at least one American prisoner released.

He really is sophomoric.


24 posted on 12/17/2014 10:06:05 AM PST by Noamie
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To: Mr. K

Not so long as the Castros are alive. Let’s not give them the satisfaction of seeing the US capitulate.

I remember crouching under schoolroom desks during bomb drills throughout the Cuban missile crisis and for several years afterwards. My burning hatred for Khrushchev and the Castro brothers has not abated. NO WAY that relations should be normalized with Cuba while that unrepentant generation of hardcare Marxists are still alive. May they and the imposter in chief burn in Hell together.


25 posted on 12/17/2014 10:37:33 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
OBAMA EMBRACE THE CUBAN GENOCIDE REGIME

A Marxist leaning Pope blessed the Marxist American president embrace of Castro's genocide communist regime condemning the Cuban enslaved people to eternal damnation. On the deal Castro liberated an American illegally imprisoned in Cuba in exchange for the freedom of three Cuban spies serving prison terms in U.S. and the normalization of relations with a country that occupied for decades a top position in the list of the State Department ‘s terrorist countries.

The Cuban regime tried to obliterate New York and Washington with a nuclear attack during the October Missile Crisis of 1962. “In November 1962, the Castro brothers’ and Che Guevara’s agents had targeted Macy’s, Gimbels, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan’s Grand Central Station with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The Holocaust was set for detonation the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving.” (Humberto Fontova)

Castro has been a strong ally of Islamic terrorism. Cuba continues to serve as a base for coordination and mutual support among transnational terrorist organizations. At Tehran University he stated to the thunderous applause of students and faculty, "The imperialist king will finally fall,” (AFP, May 10, 2001). Immediately afterward the Iranian Press Service proudly proclaimed that "Iran and Cuba reached the conclusion that together they can tear down the United States.” (IPS, May 10, 2001).

It is suicidal turning a blind eye to Castro, a deadly enemy at 90 miles south of Key West that does not hide his hatred for U.S.

To complete Obama’s betrayal of the American people, with the normalization of relations comes the opening to Cuba of the American and International bank credits that will sustain the Cuban regimen passing to the American taxpayers the same heavy burden that helped to bankrupt the Soviet Union.

When The FBI Tracked Terror-Suspects—Literally!

Humberto Fontova | May 10, 2013

http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2013/05/10/when-the-fbi-tracked-terrorsuspectsliterally-n1592705

26 posted on 12/17/2014 12:16:54 PM PST by Dqban22 (Hpo<p> http://i.imgur.com/26RbAPx.jpg)
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