Cuba blasted U.S. President George W. Bush's newly toughened policies...

[Say_What]

Mods: This is in the Miami Herald's "Latest from the Newsroom" page.

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HAVANA - Cuba blasted U.S. President George W. Bush's newly toughened policies toward the communist-run island on Monday, saying they were developed to placate anti-Castro Cuban exiles crucial for his re-election.

''Cuban again denounces these new provocations and aggressions by the neofascist American government,'' the island's leadership said in an editorial published in the Communist Party daily Granma.

Bush announced Friday that his government would tighten a ban on American tourism and other restrictions against the island, and would allow more Cubans to emigrate to the United States. He also called for a commission to plan for the day Fidel Castro's rule ends.

Cuba said the measures have an ''electoral stink'' that show ``the unlimited commitment of the American government to the extreme right and its obsession with destroying the Cuban revolution's example.''

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7004155.htm

[joshdawg]

1. I believe it is past time to lift the sanctions

against Cuba. That is a poor country and is of no threat to the U.S. at all. But then, neither was Iraq.

[Say_What]

2. Correspondence.org responded well to the Bushies....

[Judi Lynn]

3. Excellent.

Bush and Bush's brother and Bush's father have been courting Cuban "exiles" forever.

There's no way he'd pass up invading Cuba if he and his pathetic advisors can devise an excuse to keep the rest of the world off their backs.

[Say_What]

8. Jebbie wrote a letter to one of the FL papers in support of big brother's

latest draconian Cuba initiatives. I ran across it when looking through the Cuba news sites today :puke:

[Voltaire99]

4. "The neofascist American government"

It's a sad day when Fidel Castro has your number!

[Say_What]

7. Fidel has had the number of TEN (10) US presidents!!

As a journalist from Canada observed recently. "Fidel is playing chess while the US is playing checkers, and, as usual, Fidel is several moves ahead."

No matter what one might think of the Cuban leader, he has held at bay 10 US presidents and a money pit of covert opts over 40+ years. For that he is a hero in the Third World. The following editorial provides a perspective from the Third World:

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THE Third World people should learn from Cuba's example in their dealings with Europe and America.

There's need to learn from Cuba's refusal to make any concessions to the European Union for the sake of aid.

The changing of a social regime in Cuba is a question for the Cubans themselves to decide - and not for the Europeans or the Americans. Cubans should decide which regime they have and not any country, even the most powerful.

It is not possible for us to resign ourselves to a world order whose highest principles and objectives embody a system that colonised, enslaved and plundered us for decades.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200310070601.html

[dArKeR]

5. Revolution, Si! Democracy, No! - CBS

Cuba blasted President Bush's newly toughened policies toward the communist-run island on Monday, saying they were developed to placate anti-Castro Cuban exiles crucial for his re-election.

"Cuban again denounces these new provocations and aggressions by the neofascist American government," the island's leadership said in an editorial published in the Communist Party daily Granma.

Mr. Bush said Friday that his government would tighten a ban on American tourism and other restrictions against the island, and would allow more Cubans to emigrate to the United States. He also called for a commission to plan for the day Fidel Castro's rule ends.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/10/world/main577549.shtml

[0007]

6. junior's rule will probably

end earlier than Castro's