Bush Touting Cuban Life After Castro (AP)

Eugene

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Wed Oct-24-07 08:20 AM
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Bush Touting Cuban Life After Castro (AP)

Source: Associated Press

Bush Touting Cuban Life After Castro

Wednesday October 24, 2007 1:16 PM

By BEN FELLER

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush, ever pushing for a
Cuba without Fidel Castro, wants allies around the world to
offer money and political support so the island can be ready
to transform itself.

It is Bush's vision for Cuban regime change: providing help
on the outside, prodding change on the inside.

Seizing on Castro's fading health as a rare opening, Bush
was to ask other nations Wednesday to help Cuba become
a free society.

In remarks prepared for delivery at the State Department -
his first standalone address on Cuba in four years - Bush
looks to the day when Castro is gone. Bush describes a
nation in which Cuban people choose a representative
government and enjoy basic freedoms, with support from
a broad international coalition.

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malaise

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Wed Oct-24-07 08:23 AM
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1. Tell George there are billions on the planet

who look to the day when he is gone. :puke:

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LakeSamish706

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Wed Oct-24-07 08:28 AM
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3. Now thats a great point, cause I sure know that I am... My greatest fear...

however is that he will never be gone, but will cause something like WW111 in order to stay in power. That thought in itself is very disturbing indeed. It seems to me that the Dems are trying to run the clock out until he is gone, but they may be wrong big time with that.

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Ganja Ninja

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Wed Oct-24-07 08:27 AM
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2. There he goes again talking about spending our money in

another country rather than on American's right here at home.

They don't even stop to think about it any more. Money for another country? Sure why not! Money for American's right here at home? Outrageous!

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Vogon_Glory

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Wed Oct-24-07 08:31 AM
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4. If Bush Succeeded In Overthrowing Cuban Gov't

If G W Boosh succeeded in overthrowing the current Cuban government on the terms he wanted, I doubt that Cuba would be given any better treatment than El Salvador, Guatemala, or Nicaragua received after their guerilla wars ended in the 1990's. Cuba, like those Central American countries, would treated to Republican-style "benign" neglect.

Considering how the drug cartels have managed to grow in power and force in Guatemala and Honduras that they rival that of the official governments, the continuing poverty and ecological devastation, such "neglect" would hardly be beneficial either to such a post-Castro Cuba or the USA, for that matter.

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LakeSamish706

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Wed Oct-24-07 08:42 AM
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6. I think that Venezuela will have something to say about Cuba and...

lets hope that other leaders in the world can hold off * and his cronies.

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Vogon_Glory

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Wed Oct-24-07 11:02 AM
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7. I Doubt That The Venezuelans Could Stop Military Moves, BUT

I doubt that the Venezuelans could stop a military move if the US tried to overthrow the Havana regime by force, as many of the South Florida and New Jersey suburban emigres would love the US to do. On the other hand, Chavez could turn off the oil spigots, which would make US voters even LESS enthusiastic about such military adventures.

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bullimiami

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Wed Oct-24-07 08:36 AM
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5. if life before castro had not been so corrupt and unfair there wouldnt have been a castro

Edited on Wed Oct-24-07 08:38 AM by bullimiami

or a revolution.

there wouldnt have been a need for one.
it was all roses and chocolate for some groups in the old laissez faire cuba but for many it was not.

the bush family thinks fascist oligarchy is peachy keen and george has been focused on that like a laser.

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GrpCaptMandrake

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Wed Oct-24-07 11:09 AM
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8. Anybody wanna bet

the * thugs already have a CUban Free Trade Agreement (CUFTA) drawn up and ready to go?

Poor Cuba!

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theboss

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Wed Oct-24-07 11:36 AM
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9. I am quite excited about going to Harrah's Havana in 2015 or so

I've been waiting my entire life to go to a casino in Cuba.

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piesRsquare

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Wed Oct-24-07 11:39 AM
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10. Oh, fer the love of...

Will somebody PLEASE find the "OFF" button?!

Shut this man up already!

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Eugene

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Wed Oct-24-07 01:35 PM
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11. BBC: Bush pledges to keep Cuba embargo

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Wednesday, 24 October 2007, 17:58 GMT 18:58 UK

Bush pledges to keep Cuba embargo

US President George W Bush has vowed to maintain the
trade embargo on Cuba while the government in Havana
keeps its "monopoly" on power.

Mr Bush said he looked forward to a world without
Cuban leader Fidel Castro and urged greater global
action to promote democracy in Cuba.

He denounced present-day Cuba as "a tropical gulag".

Mr Bush was speaking in Washington in front of
dissidents and relatives of Cuban dissidents.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7060788.stm

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