Posted on 12/17/2014 1:46:43 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Gov. Scott Walker firmly denounced President Barack Obama's move to normalize U.S. relations with Cuba after more than 50 years of severed ties between the countries.
"I think it's a bad idea," Walker told reporters Wednesday. "I don’t think there’s been any noticeable change towards making that a more free and prosperous country. There’s a reason why we had the policy in the first place."
Walker said he hasn't seen solid evidence that Cuba has made changes that would warrant a shift in U.S. policy, which has remained in place through administrations of both parties.
"These 50 years have shown, isolation has not worked," Obama said in his address. "It's time for a new approach."
The announcements from Obama and Castro followed the release of Alan Gross, an American contractor jailed in Cuba for five years. Three Cuban spies will also be released in exchange for a U.S. intelligence asset who spent nearly 20 years in Cuban prisons, NPR reported .
The U.S. will also move to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Asked whether the release of U.S. political prisoners might signal a willingness on Cuba's behalf to make changes, Walker was doubtful.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.host.madison.com ...
Obama and Raúl Castro thank pope for breakthrough in US-Cuba relations.
Pope Francis, before visiting The Holy Land boasted to be himself the “Che” of the Palestinian people.
A Marxist leaning Pope blessed the Marxist American president embrace of Castro's genocide communist regime condemning the Cuban enslaved people to eternal damnation. On the deal Castro liberated an American illegally imprisoned in Cuba in exchange for the freedom of three Cuban spies serving prison terms in U.S. and the normalization of relations with a country that occupied for decades a top position in the list of the State Department ‘s terrorist countries.
The Cuban regime tried to obliterate New York and Washington with a nuclear attack during the October Missile Crisis of 1962. “In November 1962, the Castro brothers’ and Che Guevara’s agents had targeted Macy’s, Gimbels, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan’s Grand Central Station with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The Holocaust was set for detonation the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving.” (Humberto Fontova)
Castro has been a strong ally of Islamic terrorism. Cuba continues to serve as a base for coordination and mutual support among transnational terrorist organizations. At Tehran University he stated to the thunderous applause of students and faculty, "The imperialist king will finally fall,” (AFP, May 10, 2001). Immediately afterward the Iranian Press Service proudly proclaimed that "Iran and Cuba reached the conclusion that together they can tear down the United States.” (IPS, May 10, 2001).
According to World renown and highly respected American investigative journalist and author, Claire Sterling, : “All of the world’s emerging terrorist bands in the 1970’s were indebted to the Cubans and their Russian patrons for that honeycomb of camps around Havana. None could have started without rudimentary training, and those who didn’t train in Cuba were trained by others who did.” (“The Terror Network, The Secret War on International Terrorism.”)
As reported by Sterling, “Castro was training the advance guards of the coming European fright decade – Palestinians, Italians, Germans, French, Spanish Basques – and forming guerrilla nuclei in practically every Western hemisphere state south of the American border. As far back as 1962, Castro’s camps were taking in 1,500 Latin American guerrillas a year. . ‘Any revolutionary movement anywhere in the world can count on Cuba’s unconditional support,’ declared Castro at the 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana”. It was then and there that the international terrorism network was consolidated under Castro’s leadership.”
It is suicidal turning a blind eye to Castro, a deadly enemy at 90 miles south of Key West that does not hide his hatred for U.S.
After the restoration of diplomatic relations comes the end of the embargo.
To complete Obama’s betrayal of the American people, with the normalization of relations comes the opening to Cuba of the American and International bank credits that will sustain the Cuban regimen passing to the American taxpayers the same heavy burden that helped to bankrupt the Soviet Union.
When The FBI Tracked Terror-Suspects—Literally!
Humberto Fontova | May 10, 2013
http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2013/05/10/when-the-fbi-tracked-terrorsuspectsliterally-n1592705
Bad idea? LOL. The governor is too much of a gentleman...
How many milliseconds after Walker said this was he branded a racist?
I think it’s great he’s commenting on this so quickly. It makes me think he’s considering running for President.
My President is incredible! We would be so lucky to have a President Walker. Of course idiots probably think he was too successful as Governor. I don’t give a care about Amnesty........it will be done and over well before President Walker is sworn in January 2017. Get over the stupid Amnesty thingee and perhaps look at your idol Obama who is pushing for it.
From your lips to God’s ears. Oh dear Lord how we need a President Walker. Our Country is desperate for his governing.
He’s right to be critical.
As Obama unleashes another wave of crime and chaos in his quest to destroy America...
Obama vs. The United States of America. Reason: Treason.
Obama vs. The United States of America. Reason: Treason.
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