"It's alarming how charming I am!" Castro charms Americans at trade show

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | September 29, 2002 | CRAIG GILBERT cgilbert@journalsentinel.com

[Cincinatus' Wife]

"We've got everything to gain and nothing to lose," Irvin argued.

"What profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?" (Matthew 16:26)

Fidel Castro - Cuba

[xsmommy]

But, Judge said, "I can sell them the products without ascribing to his form of government."

No, actually you can't. trading with them is endorsing, condoning and abetting communism. period.

[bmwcyle]

He votes with his gun. He does not know about voting with a dollar.

[piasa]

I hope they leave those animals in Cuba instead of bringing them back. It'd be a real shame if the cattle came back with mad cow disease.

[goldstategop]

Well you have a a mix of Stupid and Satanic Leftists in attendance. They both support ending the embargo on Cuba but for different reasons. They either want to trade with Cuba because they know Communism doesn't work and naively hope it will convert Fidel into a democrat or more likely they want to trade with Cuba PRECISELY because they do support Communism and will do ANYTHING to demonstrate their hatred of America.

[piasa]

"We've got everything to gain and nothing to lose," Irvin argued.

That's what BMW said about Hitler...

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Castro's must be laughing himself sick. He runs a slave state, collecting wages from foreign countries (in U.S. dollars), keeps 90% and pays his slaves 10% in worthless pesos. He sells the good imported stuff in his state owned dollar stores only affordable to the average Cuban if they receive dollars from escaped relatives. This source of money infuses millions of dollars into Castro's pocket.

Bush has said he will ease the embargo if Castro begins to make moves away from communism and toward democracy. This would begin to improve the lives of Cubans living under Castro's communist regime. Castro prefers things the way they are. He's betting socialists on the Hill and ignorant, couldn't care less politicians, looking for campaign dollars from U.S. companies, and the elite LIBERAL U.S. media, consistent advocates of socialism, will bring pressure to bear on the remaining embargo rules (sell only in cash and restrict travel).

Castro wants to reverse U.S. policy thereby allowing financed sales to him. Ask the Europeans, Candians and old soviet allies, who have accepted Castro's worthless IOUs, what they think of that kind of arrangement.

Castro will fill his resorts with taxpayer subsidized goods and welcome tourists, in effect charging Americans twice for the priviledge of freeing up dollars so he can advance anti-American, anti-free market terrorism around the globe.

Useful fools use to be the term. Now it seems they're eager and willing partners in his brutal dictatorship.

[Lion's Cub]

It's a depressing commentary on the times, I guess. If we won the cold war, why are so many Americans supporting communism?

[backhoe]

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

If we won the cold war, why are so many Americans supporting communism?

Public education.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[backhoe]

Look at what I just found:

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/709264/posts

Cuba Supplies BW Technology To Libya, Syria
Middle East Newsline ^ | July 1, 2002 | Middle East Newsline

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/703968/posts

MEDICAL JOURNAL EXPOSES CUBA S BIOTERRORISM LINK
http://www.aapsonline.org/ ^ | May 15, 2002: | Helen Faria

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/695381/posts

US claims proof of Cuba's germ war project
The Guardian (U.K.) ^ | 06/06/2002 | Julian Borger

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/730542/posts

Iraq and Cuba – Fitting Pieces in the West Nile Virus Puzzle?
www.newsmax.com ^ | Aug. 9, 2002 | Miguel A. Faria Jr., M.D.
Database here:

BIOTERRORISM; BIOWARFARE; BIOWARFARE; CASTRO; CASTRO WATCH; CUBA; IRAQ; WEST NILE VIRUS;

[MadIvan]

"It's alarming how charming I am!" Castro charms Americans at trade show

We could add it's disturbing how Irving can be. ;)

Best Regards, Ivan

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Derbyshire: WHEN NONE CARES ***That most Americans cannot imagine what life is like in a Communist country. That they are easily bamboozled by a not-very-subtle puppet show staged by an experienced, but not especially sophisticated, Third World propaganda machine. That an energetic executive supported uncritically by the mass media, with a well-drilled party in Congress and a judiciary well-seeded with place-men, can do anything it pleases to American citizens and their liberties, under any flimsy pretext it can think up on the spur of the moment, without fear of sanction by either of the other separated powers. That our elites actually like Castro and his system and will go to any lengths to ingratiate themselves with him, regardless of the interests of their own nation, which they do not like half as much. And that penniless immigrants who work hard for decades to establish themselves as middle-class Americans are regarded with contempt and loathing by those same elites, especially when their vulgar, graceless striving is accompanied by signs of religious belief.***

Fidel, Saddam and Hugo --An improbable but growing friendship of three military revolutionaries

Jay Nordlinger: WHO CARES ABOUT CUBA?***The oppositionists and their supports are extraordinarily, even disturbingly, grateful for any sincere attention they receive. They are accustomed to being snubbed or defamed. Another exile writes, "Prisoners cling to newspaper articles about human rights in Cuba as their only hope against being abandoned and forgotten. The sense of helplessness, that no one is listening, that no one cares, is what kills their souls. I've known many such people, including within my own family."

Back in the Reagan years, Jeane Kirkpatrick became a heroine in the Soviet Union for the simple act of naming names on the floor of the U.N.: naming the names of prisoners, citing their cases, inquiring after their fates. Later, in Moscow, she met Andrei Sakharov, who exclaimed, "Kirkpatski, Kirkpatski! I have so wanted to meet you and thank you in person. Your name is known in all the Gulag." And why was that? Because she had named those names, giving men and women in the cells a measure of hope. Kirkpatrick says now, "This much I have learned: It is very, very important to say the names, to speak them. It's important to go on taking account as one becomes aware of the prisoners and the torture they undergo. It's terribly important to talk about it, write about it, go on TV about it." A tyrannical regime depends on silence, darkness. "One of their goals is to make their opponents vanish. They want not only to imprison them, they want no one to have heard of them, no one to know who or where they are. So to just that extent, it's tremendously important that we pay attention."***

[Happygal]

*ROFLMAO*...Poor Mrs. Irving ;-)

[ChadGore]

The lefties at this paper wrote a swooning puff piece about their love, icon, hero and mentor, fidel castro.

[lavaroise]

In this day and age, Silver Back apes are more popular than people, so Castro can rest assured, he does have competition.

[Stavka2]

Considering some of the dictators America regularly has dealings and love fests with, Castro is an angel. If anything, free trade will force him to change...he'll have no one to blame for a bad economy....but considering the state of the average Cuban under the CIA backed Batista...they're still better off.

[DTA]

>>>>>That's what BMW said about Hitler...<<<<

And Ford, GM, Dupont and many others as well.

Communist China probably has larger prison population than total number of Cubans (10 million). And no one complaints about "Made in China" Timberlands, Nikes and many other American icons.

Perhaps it's not fair to lambaste farm folks looking for a extra buck while big busines deals with devil.

[Lion's Cub]

Public education.

Good answer!