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Armey Urges End to Cuba Sanctions
Los Angeles Times ^ | 08/09/02 | Paul Richter

Posted on 08/09/2002 8:18:59 AM PDT by RFH

In a vivid sign of waning support for the economic embargo on Cuba, House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) said he believes that the United States should open trade with the Communist regime and that he has backed the restrictions on travel and trade only out of loyalty to two Cuban American members of the House.

Speaking at a trade promotion event in Wichita, Kan., on Wednesday, Armey acknowledged that congressional support for the 4-decade-old restrictions is fading. "If they last a year, it will be the last year they last," said Armey, who plans to retire from Congress at the end of the year.

(See article for the remainder - Excerpt since it is an LA Times Article...)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armey; communism; cuba; dontbeadick; sanctions; trade
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Comment #41 Removed by Moderator

To: xsmommy
i like dick

Ummmm....OK.

42 posted on 08/09/2002 10:43:04 AM PDT by CholeraJoe
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To: CholeraJoe; dubyaismypresident; one_particular_harbour; xsmommy; Howlin
I find my classmates in the most unusual threads.

Howlin, how are you?

43 posted on 08/09/2002 10:52:06 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: one_particular_harbour; xsmommy
Is this thread about Fidel, or dick?

And could someone explain the difference between the two.
44 posted on 08/09/2002 10:58:52 AM PDT by Luis Gonzalez
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To: RFH
More trade will give the people a taste of what they have been missing, and hasten the demise of Communism, as it did with the Soviet Union. I only wish congress had more Texas economists and fewer Northeast lawyers.
45 posted on 08/09/2002 10:59:18 AM PDT by SupplySider
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To: RFH
I agree with Armey. Flood Cuba with U.S. dollars, tourists, goods, culture, and Fidel will wither on the vine. Fidel can not save face if the U.S. offers it's hand of friendship and he refuses it.

GW should even go as far as to apologize for the Bay of Pigs. Not for moral reasons of course, but for the realpolitik result which will be the liberation of Cuba. The long term good of liberation outweighs the historical good of denying communism validation.

Let Fidel retire in the delusion that he did his country good. Just get him out of the way via a "Thank you for a job well done, here's your gold watch, enjoy your retirement."

47 posted on 08/09/2002 11:03:14 AM PDT by Wm Bach
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To: SupplySider
"More trade will give the people a taste of what they have been missing, and hasten the demise of Communism"

What are you talking about? Do you for one moment believe that anything that Fidel buys will find its way to the people? If that's the case, then why hasn't it happened already?

Fidel freely trades with nearly every other country in the world, and he's reneged on payment to nearly all of them.

Now, as his credit lines are exhausting, he looks to the North for help.

These are the actions of a desperate man, and now we should bail him out?

Trade isn't possible with the Cuban people, only with the government, and the majority of the goods imported go to the Tourist stores, or the diplomatic stores. The average Cuban isn't even allowed in those stores.

48 posted on 08/09/2002 11:09:27 AM PDT by Luis Gonzalez
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To: one_particular_harbour; Luis Gonzalez
hiding, OPH darling? don't think so.

luis, you nailed it, there is no difference.

49 posted on 08/09/2002 11:10:48 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Luis Gonzalez
thank you for raising the level of discourse to discuss the complete lunacy of lifting the embargo!
50 posted on 08/09/2002 11:12:18 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Wm Bach
"Flood Cuba with U.S. dollars, tourists, goods, culture, and Fidel will wither on the vine."

It will never happen, only that which he wishes to happen will happen.

The only stores in Cuba are government stores, the only tourist agencies in Cuba are government tourist agencies, he controls everything.

Why do you think that hasn't happened already in light of the fact that Fidel trades with the majority of the world already?

51 posted on 08/09/2002 11:13:25 AM PDT by Luis Gonzalez
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Why do you think that hasn't happened already in light of the fact that Fidel trades with the majority of the world already?

THIS is the question that those that favor lifting the embargo are NEVER able to satisfactorily answer. THIS proves up the fallacy of that argument.

53 posted on 08/09/2002 11:14:44 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: one_particular_harbour
you are just jealous because you don't know dick about cuba and i do...
54 posted on 08/09/2002 11:15:20 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: RFH
he has backed the restrictions on travel and trade only out of loyalty to two Cuban American members of the House.

I guess now that he's retiring, he can admit that he wasn't making decisions based on what's best for the country, but in fact was making decisions based on his friendship with two Cuban-American house members. Lovely.
55 posted on 08/09/2002 11:16:57 AM PDT by Stone Mountain
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To: RFH
IMO, the quickest way to destroy that Cuban communist regime is to import capitalism.
56 posted on 08/09/2002 11:17:15 AM PDT by oldvike
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To: RFH
I am wondering the same thing...I think he must have stopped taking his medication or something. He has suddenly gone wacko.

57 posted on 08/09/2002 11:17:51 AM PDT by Prysson
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To: xsmommy; one_particular_harbour
what is the deal with dick?

Anatomically impossible as it seems, this dick is also an ass, either that or he forgot that Cuba is a penal colony!

(already ashamed of myself)

58 posted on 08/09/2002 11:17:59 AM PDT by William Wallace
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To: xsmommy
He didn't just wander off the reservation -- he flew off of it. This is so out of character with what I have observed over the years. Personally think he should keep his mouth shut and leave gracefully!

59 posted on 08/09/2002 11:18:24 AM PDT by PhiKapMom
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To: Luis Gonzalez
You comments hit the target IMO. Castro is not going to help all his people -- only the ones he chooses will get the benefits of lifting the embargo.

Don't understand why people cannot see that including Armey who I have now lost all respect for!
60 posted on 08/09/2002 11:20:01 AM PDT by PhiKapMom
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