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We did not support the Soviet Union BY giving free anything they wanted. Why should the U.S. taxpayers maintain Castro's regimen to the tune of 6 billion dollars annually? Don't try to misrepresent the true nature of the deal. Castro owes to the rest of the world tens of billion of dollars AND HE DOES NOT PAY ANYONE BACK. As matters stand now, Castro can buy all the food and medicine in the U.S. he wants, but he has to pay for it in advance. Now the American Senators and Representatives want to reward him for staying in power for so long, and are in want of maintaining a terrorist regimen whose leader just this week reaffirmed his alliance with "the Axis of Terror" offering total support to Iraq in the eventual war with the U.S. Castro is the only leader that once tried to nuke our cities and who sent his henchmen during the Vietnam War to torture our P.O.W.'s.

In the middle of the war against terrorism, American legislators are betraying their own country and supporting a terrorist state at 90 miles from our shores. SHAME ON THEM!

Well, I did say sell grain and wheat to the Soviet Union, not give grain and wheat to the Soviet Union. And we also allowed citizens to freely travel there, if they chose (and if the SU approved their visa.)

I am not advocating lifting anything, except the ban on travel for citizens of the US. I am not saying that anything should be shipped or sold on credit to Cuba. I'm not saying that you should be able to bring huge quantities of Cuban cigars here from Cuba (just as many as you can carry on your person ;-) ) I'm not even saying you should be able to import baseball players from Cuba to replace striking players come September. I just don't think there is any reason for citizens to not be able to travel where they wish. That's part of being free.

I also haven't figured out why we never engaged in a hot war to eliminate the problem in the first place, when we were willing to attempt to do so in Korea and Vietnam.