Woo Hoo!
No more NLG Cuban Committee!
Posted on 07/05/2006 7:32:49 PM PDT by FreeManWhoCan
HAVANA (Reuters) - Two senior Cuban officials charged on Wednesday that a report on the communist nation delivered to the Bush administration's National Security Council amounted to a blueprint for an Iraq-style regime change in the Caribbean.
"We are facing a real threat of aggression," National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon said of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba's report, flashing a draft he said had appeared briefly on the U.S. State Department's web page, to a national television and radio audience.
The report, ordered by President George W. Bush and delivered but not made public on Wednesday, focuses on insuring communism ends when President Fidel Castro, who turns 80 in August, can no longer govern the Caribbean island nation, according to draft seen by Reuters.
Cuban Defense Minister Raul Castro, 75, in line to succeed his older brother Fidel, recently insisted the Communist Party would continue to rule the country after he and his brother were gone.
An earlier commission report delivered in 2004 and since implemented led to further tightening of U.S. economic sanctions and travel restrictions established in the 1960s and increased support or dissidents. It also outlined what a post-Castro Cuba might look like and established a Cuban Transition Coordinator to oversee preparations.
The new report supports the earlier one and calls for building an international coalition to support a transition, increased organizational and financial support for dissidents and a further tightening of economic sanctions, among other measures.
The first chapter, entitled "Hastening the End of the Castro Dictatorship: Transition not Succession," includes a separate "classified annex" of recommended actions.
"You can't accomplish what they propose without an invasion, without a war. ... This plan implies a U.S. military invasion of Cuba, a direct U.S. intervention," said Bruno Rodriquez, First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The United States denies it has any military designs on Cuba. Western diplomats generally discount a U.S. military threat, pointing out the country is bogged down in the Middle East and the large number of Cubans living in the United States who would oppose a military venture because of family and friends on the Caribbean island.
I do believe this one qualifies for a (barf alert) doesn't it?
www.therealcuba.com/
"I already told you I don't know anything about any [Freeping] set-up. You can torture me all you want."
"Torture you? That's a good idea. I like that."
I wish we would.
Don't send the military. Just send McDonalds and Walmart...
Either they're saying we have a heck of a lot leaks in our government, or they're BS'ing.
Lets see now: Chavez claims we are going to invade Venezuela, Ahmadinejerk claims we are going to invade Iran, Kim Il Jerkoff says we will invade N. Korea. and Castro says we will invade Cuba. Meanwhile Mexico is invading us. If we invade all these places, and stop the mexican invasion, we are really going to be busy folks.
Are all Dictators paranoid? It sure looks like it.
This can only mean one thing. Bush and the globalists now have plans to extend a spur on the Super Transporter Highway to reach Cuba.
Yeah, and Castro will never allow a McDonalds and/or Walmart.
Hey, I would donate a big mac, fries and a shake, special delivery... :)
Perhaps it is wishful thinking and they want us to rescue them from the day to day problems of running small Latin American countries.
Little known fact about Ricardo Alarcon: Every day, the US Interests Section in Havana delivers a copy of the New York Times to him. Does this surprise anyone?
Great credit goes to President Bush. Note during the terms of the the last two RAT presidents, none of these little weasels worried about getting whacked.
Seriously, the U.S. gov't should buy the fricking island outright, give Castro and his cronies some type of asylum in Puerto Rico or something in exchange for making Cuba a possible territory or state. I know that Castro is still a dictator but it's time to look to the future instead of dwelling on the past.
Did the New York Times just publish details of the Bay of Pigs?
The ogre is 80. I think God is planning a regime change soon.
I can't wait. I'm sick of paying way too much for Cuban cigars that aren't any better than a good JRCigar knock-off.
And let's not forget to ask if we can buy the oil drilling rights off of south Florida.
Hmmmm..........
Patria o muerte and los Yanquis es diablo.
The Cuban Commies have been pushing the "us against them" agitprop since 1959. Granma's pages never change...they just keep the same galley set and change the dates.
So long as the fear of Yankee imperialism, and the Cuban secret police, infect the Cuban peasant psyche, Castro will live on. Like a bad case of dysentery.
If there is no leak from the NY Times, then it can't be true.
Fla., Tex. and the Gulf coast is getting pretty full of retirees, guess it'll be OK open up Cuba now. This statement probably is a lot more credible than we think.
All tyrant regimes use the United States as a convenient scare tactic to keep their people in line, warning that the US is secretly interested in becoming an empire and taking over their oil, or basket weaving or some other commodity by killing their innocent people.
Whoops! I just figured out the Democratic Party!
As someone who had lived his whole life during the cold war I found the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent unraveling of Soviet Communism almost surreal and hard to comprehend it at the time. Some years later I was at a live taping of a magazine type radio show by the extremist Canadian CBC. The story being covereed was how some plucky leftists had managed to circumvent the US trade emabargo and the Helms Burton act by smuggling a piano into Cuba. The leftists were all congrats and high fiving themselves and all I could think was if this pathetic act of defiance turned their crank the cold war was indeed now history.
Woo Hoo!
No more NLG Cuban Committee!
>>>>>Either they're saying we have a heck of a lot leaks in our government
I agree with that too.
Ok, THAT was funny.
Bump
Should have been done decades ago.
Alas, the puppet masters have plans for Castro and Chavez and they are not to enhance our Republic.
Still, would love to see some courage to remove both Marxist idiots from power and from breathing air and taking up space in the public arena.
There is already a McDonald's in Cuba.
I was thinking more along the lines of "Joke of the Day."
[gasp]
Castro and Chavez are working as deep cover agents for the Bush Family?
No. I did NOT say that.
I did not even think that.
Please avoid putting your words in my fingers.
I prefer to construe the President's actions as doing all the good he can get away with doing and staying alive long enough to do so.
One FREEPER insisted to me in a freepmail that The President was part of a group covertly and successfully sabotaging the NWO's efforts. I hope so.
But I was not even thinking anything about him in my post.
I think Billdo, Shrillery, Boxerface; Scuba Teddy et al are far more hideous traitors than anyone else would remotely be ABLE to be in the months and years we have left before the curtain falls. No one can catch up to those raging traitors. All the more so if they aren't even trying.
Sorry, I was being facetious. The whole puppet master thing always brings out the "It's Bush's Fault!" placard. It fits with the general hysteria.
It occurs to me that the Leftist/Socialist/Collectivist ideologies are prone to spawning conspiracies. It is the nature of the beast that idle hands will find mischief, and there are no hands more idle than out of work, or barely working former public servants.
Besides, I think the Left has grown rather fond of their conspiracy theories and they feel left out because they don't have any secret conspiracies of their own. Much as they try, their conspiracies and groups are all fairly exposed, poorly organized, and transparent. Their flaw is that they love attention, and conspiracies thrive on secrecy... Secrets are the one thing they are unable to keep, at least without leaving a trail of bodies - apparent suicides all.
But inept conspiracy attempts aside, I was hoping you'd catch the joke in saying that Castro and Chavez were secretly on the Bush Family payroll.
Sorry.
I have a lifelong personal weakness, flaw.
I've never been particularly good at catching humor vs sarcasm vs plain speaking truth--in some contexts along some lines etc.
I'm not a total idiot at 59 but it has taken a lot of years to get tolerable on such nuance laden stuff.
It's probably related to being mostly a social isolate the first 14 years or so of my life.
No sweat. Sorry I missed your humor. I often have to have many things spelled out to me.
Oddly, I didn't need things spelled out to me so much in China for 15 years. And that was even with a big language gap. I have no explanation for that.
No problem.
I hope you see the humor in the fact that Castro, Chavez, Kim Jong-Il, and that Iranian dude with the funny name... Well, the fact that all of them are a bunch of pompous windbags with too much power, money, and gall.
It seems that on foreign policy issues, it is difficult for the President to miss a beat when there's so much competition from our enemies to reaffirm everything Bush has said about them in the past, and what Americans believe to be true about third world piss pots.
Their timing is usually pretty darned perfect too. Almost choreographed, which is why it is so much fun to blame it all on a secret Bush family conspiracy.... because it drives liberals nuts.
Let's see: Fidel drops dead and his doofy 75yo brother takes over...
The force of his magnetic personality, his history of fighting oppression and the unbridled respect of the Cuban people for his staunch "stay the course" line gets him...
Dead in a week.
We'll put the Wal-mart over there... and can we get a bidding war between Disney and Universal? "Cubaland" with rides, cigars, rum, beaches, managed properly could be a real hot proposition!
About time, Fidel. You've fiddled long enough.
Not entirely infeasible, IMHO. Statehood would be a little bit of a reach, but some sort of administrative district with PR could very well happen. How many deputies does inFidel have whose hearts are really in it?
The place would change overnight. Quicker than when Somoza fell. Buy off Castro and give him a feeding tube. Your idealism is not too far from pragmatic. I think some folks in Florida would make some fine, fine civic servants there.
Forgot to say, too, as long as we are looking forward, the Florida Marlins are seeking a permanent home, and Cuba is more baseball-crazy than NYC.
That, culturally, could go a lot farther than just a gesture.
ROFL
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