Experts debate taking Cuba off terrorism list

Orlando Sentinel ^ | April 7, 2002 | Maya Bell | Miami Bureau

[Cincinatus' Wife]

While acknowledging that the reasons for keeping Cuba on the list are weak, Hays said the language had been "watered down" by a Clinton administration eager to expand relations with Cuba. He predicted that the upcoming report would make a far more persuasive case for maintaining Cuba's rogue status.

Castaneda: Mexico did not pressure Castro to leave U.N. conference **** Last year, Cuban officials accused Castaneda of trying to get Mexican delegates to vote in favor of a U.N. motion condemning Cuba for its human rights record. Mexico abstained from the vote, and Castaneda has said that it will do the same this year. However, when asked about the vote during a news conference Thursday, Fox said he could not comment on Mexico's position because the text of the motion had not yet been prepared.****

[RightOnline]

""We have good relations with 172 countries," Dausa said. "No one can seriously believe the U.S. is serious about the list if we are on it.""

Really? Really, now??? Well, then, amigo..........howcomeisit that your little island Workers' Paradise is so incredibly backward, you can't feed your own people worth a darn, you can't buy basics in your stores if you even HAD the money, and your citizens routinely risk their lives to float across 90+ miles of shark-infested waters to seek asylum in the US of A?? If you're so damned beloved by all of these countries and have such terrific relations with so many, why do you remain such a backwater, Communist s**thole?

Sign me.........."Just Wondering"

[backhoe]

Bloody over-educated idiots!

The Web of Terror

Castro, the Carribean, and Terrorism

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Sign me.........."Just Wondering"

Paul Greenberg: Fidel and friends**** The problem is that, like any other economy that's been run into the ground by some Communist caudillo, F. Castro and brutal company are a little short of cash just now and always. Cuba is already some $11 billion in debt, it defaulted on its international loans years ago, and so it can't get any more money from the World Bank. Or any other lending agency that has this thing about being repaid. In short, Fidel's is a typical Communist economy, that is, bankrupt -- and not just morally. That's where American banks and credit and you, the American taxpayer, come in. Because all the loans and grants that Cuba's sordid little dictatorship would need to buy our rice and shore up its own power would have to be backed some way by the U.S. government. That's the dirty little secret none of those pushing for an end to this embargo emphasize. They see trade with Cuba as still another farm subsidy.****

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bloody over-educated idiots!

Selfish, lying, money grubbing elites, socialists, congresscritters, merchants and useful idiots.

[patriciaruth]

Sounds like Castro's brain has been eaten by syphilis.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Cuban President Fidel Castro salutes Cuban army generals, left to right, Guillermo Garcia, Ramiro Valdez, former interior minister, and Juan Almeida, before the beginning of a revolutionary demonstration in the Alamar neighborhood, just east of Havana, Saturday, April 6, 2002. (AP Photo/Cristobal Herrera)

He and his comrades are old but their strips are still the same. He's been busy grooming Hugo Chavez in Venezuela

Venezuela Oil Workers' Dispute Could Threaten Supplies for U.S.****Describing the conflict as "very worrisome," John H. Lichtblau, chairman of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation in New York, said: "Venezuela has been a top foreign source for the United States for a long time. Potentially, this is a bigger threat for the U.S. market than disruptions in the Middle East, which are hypothetical. This isn't hypothetical." A clash on Thursday between government supporters and opposition party members at a drilling site in Monagas State killed two oil workers and injured three, the police said today.****

[patriciaruth]

So, okay, I'll ask God to take the yoke off the suffering people of Cuba and give Castro a stroke.

Doesn't Castro have a brother who would take over in Cuba if Castro died now. I don't remember as it has been so long since I've thought about options since Kennedy promised Krushchev that Castro would remain untouched as his trade off concession to bring an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[RippleFire]

Despite the aging dictator's inflammatory rhetoric, however, there is growing consensus among foreign-policy experts that Cuba's appearance on the list, alongside Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea and Sudan, is a Cold War relic counter to U.S. interests.

Wow! Kewl! As far as I can figure out these people's definition of U.S. interests is maximum enlargement of the number of hand biting dictators receiving U.S. foreign aid.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Cuba: Our Terrorist Neighbor To The South.****Cuban research has been centered on developing virus strains, which can be inoculated in migratory birds, such as the SV 1417 strain of the West Nile virus, which appeared mysteriously for the first time in the Western Hemisphere in New York, and which more recently has been found in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Georgia, and northern Florida.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Good thing the Bush administration is tightening the noose and annoying the communist dictator. Cuba (Castro) Protests 'Subversive' U.S. Radio Handouts

[Cincinatus' Wife]

US Food Cos. Hope for Sales to Cuba - Bush adm. denies visas---LINK to Otto Juan Reich's remarks at his swearing in ceremony.

Bush Calls Cuba A Repressive Regime--[Excerpt] "I'm just going to remind the Human Rights Commission to remember that Cuba is an incredibly repressive regime. It's the one non-democratic government in the Western Hemisphere," said the president. The UN commission meetings began on Tuesday and will continue through April 26. President Bush said the Cuban people have suffered because of Castro's dictatorship. "They put people in prison if they don't agree with you. There's no rule of law there. It's the rule of one person. He's been there for a long period of time and, unfortunately, the people of that country are suffering as a result of him," he said. [End Excerpt]

Vicki Huddleston Q&A: Veteran leader speaks about dissidents, Castro and the U.S. role****Her tour of duty ends in September. She has been more vocal in recent months in defense of island dissidents and in her criticism of the Cuban government.****

Leftwing stooges create another front for Castro [Excerpt] The Cuba Policy Foundation is headed by Ambassador Sally Grooms Cowal, who acts as its president. If you can remember back to the Elian Gonzalez debacle, Sally Grooms Cowal was the individual whose other group, Youth for Friendship, "hosted" the Cuban boy in the Rosedale mansion after he was taken by Janet Reno's agents in Miami. The Rosedale compound, which is in Maryland, is owned and operated by Youth for Friendship. Additionally Grooms Cowal, was a former deputy assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs under President George Bush in the late 1980s. She has also served as ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago. The CPF is bankrolled by the Arca Foundation.

For those of you who don't know about the Arca foundation, it passes itself as a philanthropic organization that gives millions of dollars annually to organizations that fight for social justice around the world. Unfortunately a grand majority of these organizations are of a far leftist nature, like in 1998 when it gave $1,000 to an obscure contingent called Fondo Del Sol which helped surviving members of the Stalinist Abraham Lincoln Brigade view a photo exhibit on the Spanish Civil War! Among the pro Castro groups Arca has funded have been the Pastors for Peace ($10,000 in 1999), Global Exchange ($50,000 in 1999), and the TransAfrica Forum ($100,000). Communist Cuba is the main focus of Arca's Foreign Policy grants list, and although it gives money to other international and domestic institutions, it annually gives a substantial amount of funds to causes dealing with communist Cuba. In 1999 alone, the Arca Foundation gave to over 19 organizations that are sympathetic to revolutionary Cuba.[End Excerpt]

[ChadGore]

Fidel will be gone soon enough.

Then maybe we'll *think* about it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Yes, maybe they'll think about it when nothing changes.

[Luis Gonzalez]

OUR FIRST BILLBOARD IS UP!   In Miami, Florida at the busy intersection of Bird Rd. and 37th Ave. the first billboard of our new campaign has gone up.  Next stop:  Washington, D.C.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Check out post #15.

[MadIvan]

"Iran and Cuba, in cooperation with each other, can bring America to its knees," Castro said at the University of Tehran.

For this remark alone, Castro should be sent to a painful and humiliating death. Castro has been a thorn in British sides for supporting the IRA. We should have killed him a long time ago. I see no reason to leave Fidel out of the Axis of Evil - get the blighter.

Regards, Ivan

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I see no reason to leave Fidel out of the Axis of Evil - get the blighter.

Bump!!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

In Havana, where billboards of a finger-wagging Castro condemn both terrorism and the Afghanistan war, government officials said they don't lose sleep over Cuba's designation.

I'm glad we have one of him in the U.S. waving his finger and quoting him praising terrorism. Way to go!!

[xsmommy]

Great!!!