Castro and Guevara were killers, period. Guevara led Castro's execution squads. You really want to hang with these guys (well, Castro. Guevara is very happily long gone).
How can they help Obama? Why the Hell would Obama want their help?
Anybody who loves freedom and does not get their bloodboiling reading this needs to check their pulse.
from Politico
CBC members praise Castro
Key members of the Congressional Black Caucus are calling for an end to U.S. prohibition on travel to Cuba, just hours after a meeting with former Cuban president Fidel Castro in Havana.
“The fifty-year embargo just hasn’t worked,” CBC Chairwoman Barbara Lee (D-Ca.) told reporters this evening at a Capitol press conference after returning from a congressional delegation visit to Cuba. “The bottom line is that we believe its time to open dialogue with Cuba.”
Lee and others heaped praise on Castro, calling him warm and receptive during their discussion.
But the lawmakers disputed Castro's later statement that members of the congressional delegation said American society is still racist. "It was quite a moment to behold," Lee said, recalling her moments with Castro. “It was almost like listening to an old friend,” said Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Il.), adding that he found Castro’s home to be modest and Castro’s wife to be particularly hospitable.
“In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor,” Rush said. Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Ca.) said Castro was receptive to President Obama’s message of turning the page in American foreign policy.
"He listened. He said the exact same thing" about turning the page "as President Obama said," said Richardson.
Richardson said Castro knew her name and district. "He looked right into my eyes and he said, 'How can we help? How can we help President Obama?'
" President Obama vowed during the 2008 presidential campaign to loosen the longstanding travel embargo on Cuba, and Lee – who has been pushing for an end to travel and trade restrictions for some time - said now was as good a time as any to change the way the two countries did business.
There is now serious momentum in long-standing efforts to overturn the nearly five decade ban on travel and trade with Cuba. Previous efforts have been blocked by a vocal and influential Cuban American community, and former President Bush's veto threats on legislation to overturn the prohibitions have kept such proposals at bay.
In a statement following the meeting today, Castro said that the delegation had expressed to him that a segment of American society “continues to be racist,” and is at least partly to blame for the travel restrictions. But the delegation this evening said those remarks were not expressed in the meeting.
“That did not happen,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), told reporters.
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This is the result of dropping context and indulging in wistful thinking, and a particularly virulent strain of it is spreading exponentially in the wake of the Obamassiah's coronation. Yes We Canners are embracing the delusion that all our would-be friends who were alienated by BushHitler (Cuba, Iran, NoKo, the Taliban) are "reaching out" to Teh One in trembling hope and friendship...
Bah.
The wake-up call for this epidemic is going to have to be loud enough to puncture eardrums. The only question remaining is from which quarter it will come.
I'm betting on Iran, although the NoKo/Chinese do show promise. Anybody want to start a pool?
A dead pool...
I'm still betting on Al Qaida aided by Iran or Pakistan ISI.
Or Pakistan itself.
Unfortunately there have always been leftist who idealize Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba. For anyone interested in debunking their nonsense, check out The_Real_Cuba. Its a website dedicated to telling the truth about what Castro and communism did to that country and its poor people. Warning you may come across some disturbing images.
I've studied the following deeply for over 15 years. Hast thou?
Know thy history: if the US had done business with Cuba instead of saying "no" for tossing out our dictator Batista, then Cuba would not have gotten into bed with Russia and things would be different today. If Cuba had followed Che's ideals, things would be better today--Che was an idealist, Fidel a master politician. Che hated the Soviet system and got into serious hot water over his comments and was made to leave Cuba.
As far as the death tolls in Cuba, they have been ridiculously overblown from the wealthy Cuban exiles many of whom were on Batista's payrolls, those who ran the casinos, whorehouses and clubs that were shut down or nationalized...and refused to join the revolucion.
Deaths there were, my goodness yes--but even the US, we kill tons of folk, but why do we say we can't have an educational system or health care system as good as Cuba's that's crazy--we're the US -the best nation on earth--and we deserve the best.
Why do so many hate Cuba so much? Think about it--there are deathly poor in Mexico but we never talk about toppling the many years of the PRI government that terrorizes them? Why?
Play ball with the USA's giant corportations and no problems...
Cuba, Guatamala, Nicaraugua, Chile, on and on and on...
study history, like 1953 Iran and Guatamala... study for 15 years and then step to me. no me chinga.
¡Democracia! ¡Libertad! ¡Justicia!
pablito,
Don't blame America for Castro's tyranny! There has not been a free election in forty years in Cuba. How do you explain that?
And oh, one last thing, Che's ideals were communism! So if they followed them, they'd be in a situation similar to the one they are in now. Che may have been an idealist of sorts, but he become Fidel's executioner. He was no freedom fighter. He helped establish a government, much more authoritarian than anything under Batista. Study real history, not propaganda. Not to mention he was responsible for the deaths of many innocent people, who were simply critical of Castro.
Don't believe me, Watch this_video!
Pablito,
Have you used the wonderful Cuban Healthcare System?
Good one, Pastorius!
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