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US TO START TALKS WITH CUBA TO NORMALIZE FULL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
Fox News ^ | 2014-12-17 | Associated Press (AP)

Posted on 12/17/2014 7:00:18 AM PST by WhiskeyX

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhostatedept; castro; communism; cuba; dictatorships; diplomatic; distraction; diversion; obama; relations
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To: dfwgator

I went to Germany in 2000, and took a day trip to the ‘Former East’ part of Berlin. Buildings still had bullet holes from WWII.....................


61 posted on 12/17/2014 8:08:57 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: dfwgator

Bill Hemmer justed Rubio ,”Does Obama want to Visit Cuba “?


62 posted on 12/17/2014 8:09:14 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Jack Hammer
So... does that mean we’ll soon be enjoying Cuban cigars?

I hope so. It's long bothered me that I can buy these in Mexico and Canada but not here.

63 posted on 12/17/2014 8:09:47 AM PST by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: WhiskeyX

Against! Unless and until Cuba’s Communists release ALL political prisoners, no relations. We couldn’t do this with Russia or China, they’re too big to ignore and pressure like this, but we have done so quite well with Cuba. No reason to stop, other than the COTUS being nice to his fellows commie rat bastards.


64 posted on 12/17/2014 8:11:29 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: cuspofcommonsense

Another angle on this move: An Opportunity for MORE Illegal Aliens to become ‘voters’ here . . .


65 posted on 12/17/2014 8:13:20 AM PST by cuspofcommonsense
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To: dfwgator
Cuba is going to have to swallow a lot of pride if they are to do that. Basically Castro will have to admit he’s been wrong all these years, and I don’t see that happening

I don't know how much choice they really have. Venezuela gave them about 200,000 barrels of oil a day. Cuba probably just got off the phone with Venezuela with Maduro telling them they were cut off. I am not as interested in rubbing their noses in it as just getting them on our side.

66 posted on 12/17/2014 8:16:03 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: sheana
The country is full of vacationers from Europe and Canada

And from South America. I visit Brazil and Argentina on business and frequently hear people talking about going to Cuba on vacation.

Their cigars are on sale in virtually EVERY duty-free shop around the world.

It's time Cuba got a big does of American-style consumerism. We need new places for the cruise ships to go.

67 posted on 12/17/2014 8:17:23 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Obama will make sure the United States does all the Swallowing


68 posted on 12/17/2014 8:18:08 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: WhiskeyX

Yeah I think another 50 years the boycott would have definitely worked.......


69 posted on 12/17/2014 8:18:58 AM PST by Wyatt's Torch
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To: WhiskeyX

good news! this will piss off the cuban community in Florida and help the GOP in 2016 :)


70 posted on 12/17/2014 8:19:20 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: manc

Let’s get more than two-thirds of the Senate to stand with American patriots BEFORE starting an otherwise futile impeachment charade.

And let’s get Secretary Kerry to testify, under oath, where all those millions of dollars Obama plans to offer Cuba as “reparations” will come from...


71 posted on 12/17/2014 8:19:24 AM PST by pfony1 (Let's welcome some Democrat congressmen into the Republican party and OVERRIDE!)
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To: dfwgator

“You’ll probably find the Dominican ones are better anyway.”

I’ve tried both extensively, and I very much prefer the Cuban.


72 posted on 12/17/2014 8:20:09 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Wyatt's Torch

Yeah I think another 50 years the boycott would have definitely worked

Obama is working on a second Nobel Prize and a Job at the United Nations


73 posted on 12/17/2014 8:20:34 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: jalisco555
If we can have normal relations with China, Burma and Vietnam we can certainly have them with Cuba.

Exactly. The US signed free trade deals with China back in the late 80's or early 90's, when China was every bit as repressive as Cuba. It always seemed the height of hypocrisy to me that we had free trade and diplomatic relations with China right after Tiananmen Square, while Cuba was somehow beyond the pale.

The only reason for it was that neither party would touch the issue with Florida a swing state decided by the Cuban expatriate vote in Miami. The younger generation of Cuban-Americans, however, now either doesn't care or opposes the sanctions, so that's the real reason the ball is rolling on this one.

74 posted on 12/17/2014 8:21:19 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: SomeCallMeTim

I said this to cover the rest.

The only country that doesn’t go to Cuba is the US.


75 posted on 12/17/2014 8:21:27 AM PST by sheana
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To: ek_hornbeck

Have any of those other countries tried to foster Revolution in this hemisphere, like Cuba has?


76 posted on 12/17/2014 8:22:11 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: jalisco555
I am certainly no fan of Obama but there are two things I expected him to do and am amazed he hasn’t done. The first was to end the pointless and self-destructive War on Drugs.

I'm not amazed - the War on Drugs is the quintessential liberal program, utopian in its aims and serving only to provide salaries for those who implement it.

77 posted on 12/17/2014 8:23:36 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: Old Sarge
Well, that’ll play in Miami...

Among the older Cuban expatriates (first-generation immigrants) it won't play well. Most of the younger (second-generation and beyond) Cuban-Americans I've talked to either don't care or oppose the embargo as counterproductive (i.e. the Communist Party can blame the US embargo for its belly-up economy rather than its own corruption and incompetence).

As others have pointed out, if we can have diplomatic relations and free trade with China, there's nothing but political pandering to a (shrinking) constituency driving the embargo on Cuba.

78 posted on 12/17/2014 8:23:57 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: dfwgator

China armed and funded Mao-inspired rebels the world over, including the Shining Path in Peru.


79 posted on 12/17/2014 8:26:01 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: BubbaJunebug

And access to great beaches!


80 posted on 12/17/2014 8:27:07 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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