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Castro to Obama: Reparations, Gitmo, and cutoff from dissidents the price for normalized relations
hotair ^ | Jan. 29, 2015 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 01/29/2015 8:21:32 AM PST by PROCON

The good news: The discomfort over the embargo of Cuba has led to a good bargaining position in talks with the US. The bad news: Raul Castro’s the one that thinks so. Far from being grateful for the diplomatic overture from Barack Obama, Castro wants the US to pay reparations for the economic damage that Castro says the embargo caused, plus the immediate return of control over Guantanamo Bay, as the opening ante for normalizing relations:

Cuban President Raul Castro demanded on Wednesday that the United States return the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, lift the half-century trade embargo on Cuba and compensate his country for damages before the two nations re-establish normal relations.

Castro told a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States that Cuba and the U.S. are working toward full diplomatic relations but “if these problems aren’t resolved, this diplomatic rapprochement wouldn’t make any sense.”

So much for the yearning of the Cuban people for normalcy, eh? As far as Obama’s suggestion that engagement will bring about reform in Cuba, Castro has another demand:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: castro; cuba; cubademands; cubadissidents; cubarelations; cuber; gitmo; usa
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And the Obama Regime's response: Yes to everything and apologies for past American digressions.
1 posted on 01/29/2015 8:21:32 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

How do we benefit from “normalcy”? The country has done just fine without Cuban cigars and Cuban casinos and Cuban rum. We need them???

Slap the embargo back on ‘em and let Raul rot!


2 posted on 01/29/2015 8:24:46 AM PST by GilesB
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To: PROCON

” plus the immediate return of control over Guantanamo Bay”

I wouldn’t put it past Obama. In fact, I think this is HIS plan, not Castro’s. Empty GITMO and return it to Cuba. Treasonous.


3 posted on 01/29/2015 8:24:48 AM PST by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: PROCON

Of course he will give GITMO to them. It was my first thought when he started publicly talking about pals with Cuba. He will apologize publicly to Japan too before he is gone.


4 posted on 01/29/2015 8:26:21 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: ThomasMore

Concur, but I don’t think he has the legal authority to do this unilaterally. I believe such action would have to be approved by the U.S. Senate.


5 posted on 01/29/2015 8:31:07 AM PST by Obadiah (Wind turbines, aka: bird choppers, cause earthquakes due to their harmonic frequencies.)
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To: PROCON

Two words:

“No Deal”.

Then stand up, turn around, and walk away from the bargaining table.

This won’t happen, of course - but it is what SHOULD happen.


6 posted on 01/29/2015 8:32:32 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: PROCON

Obama will give the Castros anything they want as long as they make a Golf course available day or night


7 posted on 01/29/2015 8:32:54 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: PROCON

Jimmy Carter gave up the Panama canal. Obama would have no trouble giving up Gitmo.


8 posted on 01/29/2015 8:38:28 AM PST by Malone LaVeigh
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“I believe such action would have to be approved by the U.S. Senate.”

I agree, but you never know with this beaut.


9 posted on 01/29/2015 8:43:44 AM PST by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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It's time for a few Naval ships to be dispatched near Guantanamo, with a few hundred Marines and SEALs on the Island. Then tell Cuba, "Come and take it".

Guantanamo would be a perfect strategic asset for Russia, via Cuba. Giving it back to Cuba must NOT happen.

10 posted on 01/29/2015 8:48:58 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: PROCON

The black trash in the Oval Office will say yes to all these demands.


11 posted on 01/29/2015 8:49:11 AM PST by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfield)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

he’ll give them Gitmo and anything else they want. It will be like Christmas in Havana.


12 posted on 01/29/2015 8:49:43 AM PST by surrey
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To: PROCON

Well, Gee-Willikers! Who didn’t see THIS coming?

We’re so screwed.


13 posted on 01/29/2015 8:52:38 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: PROCON

Sounds like a plan... give ‘em reparations and Gitmo. If we can do that for Castro, can’t we do it for our disadvantaged citizens? /S


14 posted on 01/29/2015 8:53:55 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: PROCON

Smooth, Obama.


15 posted on 01/29/2015 8:56:13 AM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: PROCON
Praying for a fifth column in the shipping industries and the monetary industries

'Course, I've been praying for a fifth column to show up in the defense of America, but I'm lambasted here in FR for crying out VALKYRIE ! but not WOLVERINES !

??? What's up with THAT ???

16 posted on 01/29/2015 9:00:54 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: PROCON
Far from being grateful for the diplomatic overture from Barack Obama, Castro wants the US to pay reparations for the economic damage that Castro says the embargo caused, plus the immediate return of control over Guantanamo Bay, as the opening ante for normalizing relations

For decades, Castro blamed the crappy state of the Cuban economy on the US embargo. Never mind that Cuba could trade with other countries.

If the US embargo is lifted, and relations normalized, what is left for the Communists to blame, except Communism itself?

17 posted on 01/29/2015 9:03:27 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PROCON

Yet another sterling achievement for the State Department. Look how the world loves and respects us. Maybe they can charter up Adena Menzel to give Raul a personal rendition of Let It Go to show our friendship.


18 posted on 01/29/2015 9:09:41 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: PROCON
And what's in it for us? I can think of nothing Cuba produces that I find necessary, or even desirable, and that includes a good Cohiba. (There are better cigars available far cheaper than those overrated turds.)

Why should some tinhorn, senile overlord be dictating terms to us? It's all upside to him, and nothing for us.

To hell with him.

19 posted on 01/29/2015 9:12:02 AM PST by IronJack
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Lest everyone forgets, when Castro took over with his revolution, there were many American owned businesses in Cuba that lost everything there. They were confiscated by the Commies. This talk of reparations should be that the businesses are owed big time by Castro and his regime.


20 posted on 01/29/2015 9:12:47 AM PST by dwg2
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