Cuba rejects inclusion on U.S. list of terror sponsors

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CNN

Cuba rejects inclusion on U.S. list of terror sponsors
Frm Shasta Darlington, CNN
August 5, 2010 7:49 p.m. EDT

Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuba on Thursday denounced the U.S. decision to again include the island nation on its list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Earlier in the day, the U.S. State Department in its annual report on terrorism named four countries on its 2009 list: Iran, Sudan, Syria and Cuba.

"We categorically reject the decision," said Josefina Vidal, the head of the North America Department at Cuba's Foreign Ministry.

"Yet again, the United States questions the seriousness of our commitment to the fight against international terrorism and maintains one of the most irrational aspects that constitute its hostile policy on Cuba," she said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/08/05/cuba.us.terror.list/index.html

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. Oh for crying out loud.

When are we finally going to admit that this is insane?

[av8rdave]

2. Of all the foreign policy hot button issues we need to deal with....

Is Cuba even on the radar? Good grief! A 50+ year long failed policy on our part, and we can't get over it.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. Based on sugar production no less.

*sigh*

[Tempest]

7. And the casino business

Which were run by the mob under Bastista.

[Chulanowa]

14. About thirty years before we admit our Iranian policy is insane

"How dare you engage in popular revolt and throw our beloved mass-murdering despots out on their asses?! And then - THEN - you have the fucking BALLS enough to release pounds and mounds of government documents showing it was the US encouraging and paying for those murders?! The very nerve!"

[Arctic Dave]

4. Cuba? You are shitting me, right? Cuba?

Hell, the US needs to be on that list more then any of them.

[MisterP]

5. the "Coral Curtain" is what I call the stretch of water preventing subjects of a one-party tinpot

regime led by megalomaniacs and terrorists from visiting Cuba

[boppers]

6. Interesting discussion from CFR:

http://www.cfr.org/publication/9359/state_sponsors.html

[Peace Patriot]

8. Pretty awesome hypocrisy by the USA. We're "Number One" in so many ways.

Um, WHO has a notorious torture prison on the island of Cuba?

[Rage for Order]

9. Now thats just silly

Cuba is now a state sponsor of terror? What did they do in this recent age of "state sponsors of terror" that warrants that designation?

[inna]

15. That's not "silly", that's evil.

[Ghost Dog]

10. The U.S. should include itself on this list of state sponsors of terrorism,

along with the U.K. and Israel and probably France too, amongst others...

Perhaps the U.N. could come up with the definitive list.

[dipsydoodle]

11. Absurd

x(

[eridani]

12. So, where are Pakistan and Saudi Arabia? n/t

[inna]

13. Insane and reprehensible. WTF??

Let me get this straight - Cuba wasn't on that list in 2008, during the Bush administration?? WTF happened in 2009 that could possibly justify this inclusion??

Not only a WRONG thing to do, but bad politics too. Might please a bunch of Chamber of Commerce/Round Table types though.

:nuke: