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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 01:28 PM
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Fidel Castro: "This Mr. Bolton is a Liar! A Cynic! A Gangster!"
This April in front of "the Union of Young Communist Leaders, the Officers the Revolutionary Armed Forces and Relatives and Surviving Victims of the Empire’s Terrorist Attacks on our Country," Castro gave one of his famous "speeches." This one blasted John Bolton's nomination as U.N. ambassador. "The longer John Bolton’s Senate hearing for the post of United Nations representative went on," Castro raved to the suffering crowd, "the more outrageous it seemed that President Bush could have nominated this man!"

Much applause erupted here (his honored guests knew they were being watched. They wanted their starvation rations that week.) "Mr. Bolton tried to have an intelligence analyst punished for stopping him from making false claims about a weapons program in another nation, notably Cuba! He's a kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy" (unlike Castro, I suppose) and this intimidation had a lasting effect on his department!"

Castro was simply reading from a (translated) New York Times article dated April 13th titled "Questioning Mr Bolton." Castro spent three-fourths of his time at the lectern reading from the article verbatim, spicing it up with exclamation marks and a few quips of his own. "See what kind of man this Mr Bolton is?" He asked while poking his finger skyward and arching his eyebrows. "This is one of those people who can walk on his long tongue, (much laughter here, for the same reason I mentioned above) They’d better watch him! This Mr Bolton is a Liar! A Cynic!--a Gangster!"

The rest of Castro's speech came mostly from Newsweek and the Washington Post. And who could blame him? Why put Cuba's propaganda ministers to work fashioning anti-Yankee diatribes and puff pieces on himself when he can simply pick up America's Mainstream media? For almost half a century now they've served him handily. During the Elian circus, in particular, they merited honors. Much better to put my captive propagandists to cutting sugar cane, rather than duplicating the work of the Yankee media, he reasons.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=8421

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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 01:30 PM
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1. Takes one to know one.
:)
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FreeStateDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:29 PM
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6. You have to believe an expert one's opinion.
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Caleb Donating Member (251 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 01:33 PM
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2. Castro is 100% right
But, maybe he should take a look into a mirror.
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cssmall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 01:48 PM
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3. Castro is not a tyrant.
Ask anyone save Americans and they'll tell you that they enjoyed Cuba on their visits. Castro is a well-educated man and truthfully only baseball players and the upper-classes wanted out of Cuba. The average citizen in Cuba has shelter, food and health care. Not to mention this little ticket on the end: Castro has truthfully won his elections. And, the opposition party is still anti-US. Their elections appear to be more truthful than our own.

Castro is NOT a dictator; however, he takes care of his people and his people love him for it. With the military police state, if you are running a communist government, why spend more money and have a military sitting on its ass in a time of peace?

By the way: look it up, Castro hasn't cashed one of the checks for the usage of Gitmo.
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rinsd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 02:29 PM
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5. More BS castro crappola...
...I swear if Hitler were resurrected and called Bush an asshat there would be DUers singing his praises.
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cssmall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 07:36 PM
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9. Look it up.
Castro is not an evil man, nor is a he a tyrant. Look at CBC evidence and look at BBC evidence and it will show the truth. The point is: Castro's communism is working on Cuba, period. You can't argue that, except just to equate Castro with Hilter. Hah!

The reasons for communist success in Cuba:

1. Size of the country.
2. Cuba was a captialist haven.
3. The workers are getting their fair share.

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Greeby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 02:15 PM
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4. Worth putting this one up
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:34 PM
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7. See? Bolton gives aid and comfort to our enemies
He must be shot for Treason. Then we can have a trial.
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Nikki Stone 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-04-05 03:38 PM
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8. So how much did Rove pay Castro to say that?
;) ;)

Best publicity for Bolton in a long time.
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