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Fidel Castro says 'pro-imperialist' Ukraine downed jet
AFP ^ | July 18, 2014

Posted on 07/18/2014 12:13:41 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Fidel Castro accused Ukraine on Friday of shooting down the Malaysia Airlines plane that crashed in rebel-held territory, blaming its "pro-imperialist" government for the disaster that killed 298 people.

"Cuba... must express its repudiation of this action by such an anti-Russian, anti-Ukrainian and pro-imperialist government," the 87-year-old father of the Cuban Revolution wrote in the official newspaper Granma. ....

Castro said the plane had been hit while flying "on a route under the control of the bellicose government of Chocolate King Petro Poroshenko," a reference to the confectionery magnate turned Ukrainian president.

In a wide-ranging article headlined "Abnormal Provocation," Castro also accused US President Barack Obama of supporting the Israeli ground assault on the Gaza Strip.

"Coinciding with the crime of the Malaysian plane... the president of the United States supported the (Gaza) action, calling this repugnant crime an act of legitimate defense," Castro wrote.

"Obama does not support David against Goliath, he supports Goliath against David."

"I wish to put on record my solidarity with the heroic people defending the last shred of what was their homeland for thousands of years," he said of the Palestinians.

(Excerpt) Read more at expatica.ru ...


TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: castro; israel; mh17; ukraine
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1 posted on 07/18/2014 12:13:41 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Still alive?


2 posted on 07/18/2014 12:14:43 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Who knew that Fidel posts on FR? Shocking.


3 posted on 07/18/2014 12:14:48 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Isn’t it hard to talk through an iron lung?


4 posted on 07/18/2014 12:15:50 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“Castro said the plane had been hit while flying “on a route under the control of the bellicose government of Chocolate King Petro Poroshenko,”

Even Castro thinks Owebama did it.


5 posted on 07/18/2014 12:15:58 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

He must be a relative of Keith Richards.


6 posted on 07/18/2014 12:17:01 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Is that zombie still alive?


7 posted on 07/18/2014 12:17:25 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Fidelito probably doesn’t even know when he has a
bowel movement, much less what’s happening in Ukraine.


8 posted on 07/18/2014 12:17:48 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

animatronics?


9 posted on 07/18/2014 12:18:24 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The Arab Spring is over. Welcome to the Jihadi Spring." Jonah Goldberg)
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10 posted on 07/18/2014 12:18:34 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Tailgunner Joe

That dude’s still alive?

Well, now he’s demonstrably a crackpot.

Russia shot the airliner out of the sky.

I think they made a mistake and it would better for them to admit it.

They won’t


11 posted on 07/18/2014 12:18:48 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

That dude’s still alive?

Well, now he’s demonstrably a crackpot.

Russia shot the airliner out of the sky.

I think they made a mistake and it would better for them to admit it.

They won’t


12 posted on 07/18/2014 12:20:08 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Well there you have it. Fidel has spoken. The Russian corps here should feel vindicated.


13 posted on 07/18/2014 12:21:49 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/3499506/fidel-castro-falls-o.gif


14 posted on 07/18/2014 12:23:04 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (There's no there there.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Uh...

If my score card is right, that would be the Russians correct?


15 posted on 07/18/2014 12:23:20 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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Wait a minute. ...

LOL!!!

I went back and read the article.

Castro ain’t crazy, he’s a fooking genius.

He openly mocks the won and all but calls him incompetent.

Too funny.


16 posted on 07/18/2014 12:24:53 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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If Fidel illegally crossed the Rio Grande into the U.S.A., would the U.S. Border Patrol change his diapers?


17 posted on 07/18/2014 12:25:18 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The future must not belong to those who slander bacon.)
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To: Uncle Chip
The Russian corps here should feel vindicated.

It never fails. Whenever there is a nation that is hostile the USA, there are Americans who quickly jump to the other side.

Anyone who believes that Putin is cool should try living in the pit that is Russia. And, Russia remains a pit largely because it is being run by an incompetent jerk.

18 posted on 07/18/2014 12:26:47 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Fidel read the talking points sent by Putin.


19 posted on 07/18/2014 12:28:28 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Putin was in Cuba last week!

Russia to reopen Cold War Cuban listening post used to spy on America'

Gotta wonder what else they are cooking up!

20 posted on 07/18/2014 12:30:10 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
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