Maxine Waters says Haiti was part of regime change policy...

[not systems]

Venezuela and Cuba next.

Bush has decided to clean out hemisphere.

US returning refuges to hands of death squads.

[brainshrub]

1. I don't think Cuba is next.

For two important reasons:

1) No oil in Cuba.

2) Castro is so old he's bound to die of natural causes eventually! Why bother invading now?

[not systems]

3. Would Bush win the election if he invades Cuba and wins?

How would people take a policy of military offense?

[shanti]

15. are you kidding??

they are DYING to snap up cuba's prime real estate!

[NNN0LHI]

4. Do you think the Rethugs would like to build some nice casinos there...

...to replace the ones that Castro shut down in 1959? Cheap labor. No unions.

Don

[not systems]

5. Sun City West. n/t

[oneighty]

13. Open some nice

teenage cat houses for Neil and his ilk.

180

[mac2]

17. The mafia back in town.

The Cuban people wouldn't profit. Just the Bush gang. Children would be denied good health and education.

[lazarus]

6. Cuba does have oil

Off shore exploration is indicating lots of pretty oil in Cuban waters.

[mac2]

18. Too bad.

How long will the world allow this man to invade other counrties? Is this type of aggression not putting us in danger?

Bush is going for it all before he's out of office. His brother and the Americas all set up and ready to go in 2005. They've plunded all we have for now.

I'm afraid, they'll do as much as they can get away with until we put them out of power.

They should be tried under RICO and the World Court. Everyone deserves a trial even though he wants to prevent it for others.

[wuushew]

8. I believe Castro has a younger brother

seven years younger, who would likely succeed him.

[GreenArrow]

10. there is oil in Cuba

of low quality, but there is the possibility of locating better quality oil -- just requires financing. And Haliburton wants it

http://havanajournal.com/business_comments/P1089_0_4_0

Gulf of Mexico oil, Cuba's billion-dollar bet
By Anthony Boadle | Reuters

HAVANA - When one of the world's largest deep-sea drilling rigs parks off Cuba next March, the island's Communist government will be betting on an oil bonanza to shore up its cash-strapped revolution.

Oil experts say it's a long shot and Cuba would have to discover a major deposit of light crude to make it commercially viable to tap a deep water field in the Gulf of Mexico at a cost of more than $1 billion.

But multinational oil corporations, eager for virgin fields to exploit, will be watching closely as Spain's Repsol-YPF SA puts the Norwegian-owned Eirik Raude rig to work at $195,000 a day drilling for oil in water more than a mile deep. Cuba's current small oil output is drilled from onshore rigs in coastal deposits to the east of Havana.

.......

[Zinfandel]

11. No fucking way..The US has been trying to overthrow Castro for 46 years...

Castro will be celebrating his 50 year anniversary as Cuba's socialist leader and Bush will be long gone.

Even Bush, Cheney and Dumsfeld are not stupid enough to just invade Cuba without any provacation...Castro know this, that's why he'll be in power until he dies, probably in his 90's, where's he at now...late 70's?

Fuck the Cuban right-wing greedy fucks in Florida, they are all dying off anyway.

[cprise]

2. Yes, because the U.S. KKKares about the W. Indies

.

[madrchsod]

7. Cuba would be a blood bath

for both sides. the Cuban army during their African wars were proven to be excellent soldiers. for the us army to attack Cuba would be a military and political disaster. the Europeans ,Russians, South Americans would all lose significant investments and their retaliation would be damaging to the us economy...it`s a no win for either side but that won`t stop bush

[Renew Deal]

14. It would be very bad.

It would take full out assaults. And don't be suprosed if Castro has a few long range missles in his pocket for Miami.

[htuttle]

9. She just said that the State department won't tell her a thing...

She's head of the Haiti Task Force in Congress.

[Lindsay]

12. That was Barbara Lee,

not Maxine Waters, who was just on.

But the administration has stonewalled the entire Congressional Black Caucus.

They will have a hearing next Wednesday on Haiti. Lee said she had questioned Powell in writing and has heard nothing back. Also, they've been unable to get any information from the administration all weekend.

It will be interesting to see who from the State Dept. shows up for the hearing...Lee sounded not too confident that Powell himself would show up.

[Disturbed]

16. Black Caucus vs Powell

That should be an interesting encounter.

[I AM SPARTACUS]

20. the Black Caucus has been foisted off on Powell & Rice for the entire

reign of the misunderestimadministration, with the exception of a meeting last week with Smirko - about Haiti. The Caucus had to INSIST - while at the White House - to meet with the Resident.

I'm guessing that they will feel, what? a bit lied to??? ya think? I wonder if they'll be happy meeting with Powell and/or Rice yet again...

[mac2]

19. It's a dictatorship.