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Bush to Outline Measures to Isolate Cuba's Castro
Reuters ^
| Oct. 9, 2003
| Adam Entous
Posted on 10/09/2003 8:22:10 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Edited on 06/29/2004 7:10:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush will outline new initiatives on Friday aimed at weakening President Fidel Castro's grip on power in Cuba and spurring democratic transition there without using force, administration officials said.
Subjects Mentioned Fidel Castro White House United States Names Mentioned President Bush Minister Felipe Perez Roque More Wire Service Stories Breaking News Business Entertainment Politics Science Sports Technology World Bush's advisers have gone so far as to draft contingency plans for rushing humanitarian aid to Cuba and preventing civil unrest once Castro is gone.
(Excerpt) Read more at wireservice.wired.com ...
TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush43; cuba; cubanamericans; cubapolicy
"Bush's advisers have gone so far as to draft contingency plans for rushing humanitarian aid to Cuba and preventing civil unrest once Castro is gone."
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I guess we can handle Syria and Cuba at the same time...
Can hardly wait to see little Elian come back to visit the US.
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10/09/2003 8:23:49 PM PDT
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To: nuconvert
ping
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posted on
10/09/2003 9:26:16 PM PDT
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Pan_Yans Wife
("Life isn't fair. It's fairer than death, is all.")
To: Luis Gonzalez
ping
To: Pan_Yans Wife; FairOpinion
"The Bush administration, which has yet to find evidence to back its charge that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction......."
Ah, Reuters.
No bias there. </sarc>
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10/09/2003 9:38:03 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
To: mattdono
PING!
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posted on
10/09/2003 9:39:15 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
To: nuconvert
To: Luis Gonzalez
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posted on
10/09/2003 9:45:26 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: FairOpinion
If relations with Cuba are normalized, about 200 Cubans will return to Cuba from the US and 2,000,000 Cubans will migrate fron Cuba to the US.
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10/09/2003 9:46:09 PM PDT
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Consort
To: FairOpinion
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The Bush administration, which has yet to find evidence to back its charge that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction...."I don't suppose those many Iraqi Kurds that have been horribly deformed by the chemical weapons that Saddam had would convince Reuters or the democRATs either.
To: nightdriver
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10/09/2003 9:51:53 PM PDT
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Calpernia
(Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
To: FairOpinion
yep
Thought you were going to sleep?
To: Consort
I don't think so. I think if Castro were gone, the Cubans wouldn't have a reason to leave. Cuba could be a rich, thriving, Democratic country.
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