The Cuban Air Force's shoot-down of two unarmed civilian planes over international waters in 1996. That premeditated attack killed four South Florida residents. The 1994 sinking of a tugboat fleeing Havana Harbor packed with 72 Cubans fleeing the island prison, of whom 41 died, including 10 children.Here here! I agree that Cuba's communist regime has long-standing ties with terrorist groups and countries. And Castro shouldn't be overlooked. His hatred for America and his willingness to bring America down are the basic tools for terrorism -- hate and will. Castro's efforts to build an anti- American coalition has the support and financial help of communists and terrorists around the world: in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, China, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Sudan and elsewhere.Both incidents earned the Cuban government condemnation from the Organization of American States Interamerican Commission for Human Rights and other international groups.
``Our country speaks with total moral authority in saying that it would never undertake a terrorist act,'' Cuba's U.N. Ambassador Bruno Rodriguez said. What hypocrisy.
If Cuba isn't actively exporting terrorism today, it's because the regime can't afford to do so. Apologists for Cuba have it wrong. The dictatorship has earned its place on terror's blacklist and deserves to stay there.
GW has said: "He will lead, oversee and coordinate a comprehensive national strategy to safeguard our country against terrorism and respond to any attacks that may come. These measures are essential. The only way to defeat terrorism as a threat to our way of life is to stop it, eliminate it and destroy it where it grows."
Now that our government has built a coalition to annihilate terrorism, and since Cuba is only 90 miles from the US, it should start with Castro and his tyrannical regime.
BUMP! Worth repeating. Thanks.