Harkin in Cuba Urges Castro to Free Dissidents

yahoo.com news ^ | April 24, 2003 | Anthony Boadle, Reuters

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Face it - Castro's a Tyrant** Gone also, by the way, is any persuasive argument that the United Nations has relevance in the fight for governmental decency in this world. Its Human Rights Commission winked at Castro's latest depravity, saying only that a U.N. representative should visit the island to see what's up. Stay out, Cuba replied.

So what's to be done? Simply extending the U.S. embargo from here to eternity is unlikely to achieve much, but neither is it consonant with the lessons of history that rewarding criminals stops crime. At the least, voices must rise in fierce condemnation, and from all over the civilized world. The dissidents must be encouraged, their tormentors excoriated. The free world must not let go of its outrage, but beat the drum regularly, turning to other sanctions if effective, humane ones can be found, while insistently seeking the release of all Castro's political prisoners and the demise of his government by thuggery.***

Fidel Castro - Cuba

[cars for sale]

Harkin could care less for the imprisoned in Cuba
what a pantload of a liar he is

[boomop1]

He should have taken Jesse (jackass jerkson that is) with him.

[Artem55]

Ah, Dungheapius Harkinus shows his disingenuous concern for the downtrodden. Don't you feel all warm and fuzzy?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

So many years, so many useful fools..........

[Semper Paratus]

He'll have as much luck as Carter did last year.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

HARKIN "DUNG" =

CASTRO "DUNG"

[reagan_fanatic]

What a load of crap ... both Harkin and Castro share the same central nervous system,
so this has all the sincerity of the Slickster's 'I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman' speech.

[Southack]

After Castro has 3 dissidents executed, Harkin goes to Cuba to demand that Castro turn over a new leaf and free a few of the survivors. Whadda guy.

Their bodies are still warm in their graves and Harkin is already trying to grant Castro favors such as an end to our embargo on Cuba.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

After Castro has 3 dissidents executed, Harkin goes to Cuba to demand that Castro turn over a new leaf and free a few of the survivors.

But not after first pitching his wares.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Don't hear much from Jimmy on Castro's latest tyranny, do ya?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Just what Iowa farmers need. Send their crops to Cuba and get stiffed like the Canadians.

[george wythe]

At that meeting on Tuesday evening at the Hotel Nacional, the dissidents recognized the waiter serving drinks as one of the witnesses the government produced at Palacios' trial to testify that the dissident had met with U.S. legislators at the hotel.

A meeting surrounded by "minders," so much freedom just 90 miles from America.

[mabelkitty]

Harkin in Cuba, the same week Bill and Hillary meeting with the President of the Dominican Republic, and the same week Galloway went to his home in Portugal.

Somebody needs to store this for future terrorist attacks or boatloads of folks around election time.

[iowaboy]

I am ashamed to be from Iowa because of blithering fools like Harkin. He comes home once every 6 years to get re-elected by the liberals in Polk and Johnson counties.

[babaloo]

I am from Iowa too and I think a fair trade would be for Cuba to free the dissidents and keep Harkin.

[David1]

Don't be ashamed. You can find blithering fools anywhere.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Oh, by the way Fidel……

U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Ia), visiting Cuba to promote sales of Iowa farm products, speaks at a press conference at the end of his visit, in Havana April 24, 2003. Harkin called on Cuban President Fidel Castro to release the 75 dissidents jailed for conspiring to subvert the one-party communist society born from Castro's 1959 guerrilla revolution. REUTERS/Rafael Perez

[PeterPrinciple]

promote sales of Iowa farm products


You have to understand these deals, we give them the money to buy our products.........sounds like a good deal to me.

[flashbunny]

Harkin: "Fidel, please free the dissidents."
Fidel: "No."
Harkin: "Well, I tried. Can I have a cigar now?"