[Eric in the Ozarks]

Its what the Clintons had in mind for the rest of us.

[Billthedrill]

Well, Saddam said the same thing. A punk's a punk.

If Dubya or anyone else in the office wanted Castro dead it'd take one one shot from a Predator or a laser-guided smart bomb. And every tinpot despot in the world knows it.

[Polybius]

Mr. Bush has committed himself to the mafia [free Cuban Americans] ...

Ya all hear that? I'm the Mafia! Don't mess with me unless ya wanta sleep with da fishes.....

[Spok]

Talk isn't cheap, it's free.

[archy]

When Fidel and his 26 de Julio associates got the word that Cuban dictator Batista had fled the country on December 31, 1958 and the country was de facto in the hands of the victorious rebels, they did what victorious rebels generally do when their hated despot flees the scene: they held a victory parade.

On January 2, 1959, Castro and 600 of his bearded rebels marched into Havana wearing new uniforms taken from the former national army, and riding on captured or appropriated vehicles, including Sherman tanks supplied to the Batista regime by the US government. Thoughtfully, Fidel left the scoped .30-06 Winchester Model 70 rifle he'd carried since he and eighty-one others landed in Cuba from Mexico on the boat Granma in December of 1956 in his hotel room. Where it was stolen.

He replaced it with a Belgian FAL rifle, ordered from the manufacturer by Batista but delivered after Castro's rebeldes had siezed power. When the Brigada 2506 invaders struck at the Bay of Pigs a few years later, the FAL was the rifle he carried when he arrived at the scene to meet the invaders. More recently, he's been seen carrying a grunt-issue Kalishnikov.

[Walkingfeather]

Castro cant stand that we are waiting for him to die in a "let him fade away" strategy. There will be no swan song... just demensia and death.