Casto's rhetoric is kinda cute. Bless his stone cold little heart.
Posted on 10/23/2007 4:38:15 PM PDT by period end of story
HAVANA - Fidel Castro wrote Tuesday that President Bush is threatening the world with nuclear war and famine — an attack on Washington a day before the White House was to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism.
"The danger of a massive world famine is aggravated by Mr. Bush's recent initiative to transform foods into fuel," Castro wrote in Cuban news media, referring to U.S. support for using corn and other food crops to produce gasoline substitutes.
The brief essay titled "Bush, Hunger and Death" also alleged that Bush "threatens humanity with World War III, this time using atomic weapons."
The White House on Tuesday brushed off Castro's comments — particularly his assertion that Bush was pursuing a forceful conquest of Cuba.
"Dictators say a lot of things, and most of them can be discounted, including that," said White House press secretary Dana Perino.
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Castro's just po'd because he failed.
It's nice to see that some of the anti-ethanol Kool-Aid drinkers are in full agreement with our historic friend El Presidente. It's unforgivable that America should use its resources to produce its fuel; we're under some moral obligation to buy our oil at whorehouse prices yet feed the world on a shoestring.
The U.S. is the largest foreign supplier of food to Cuba.
Hate to say it, but Old Fidel may be right this ti,e.
After listening to Lou Dobbs this evening, I’m beginning to think the Bush Administration is the worst and most destructive since the Hoover Administration.
Fidel has a point there about using all our corn to make ethanol, and the longrange effects it might have on the food supply.
Lou and also Pat Buchanan this week are pointing out how we are selling our national birthright to China. They get richer by the minute as we get poorer.
I really fear for the future of our great nation.
Hey Fidel, you are right, GWB may start WWIII and it starts with the Bay of Pigs II.
You’d think that Fidel would have caught a tropical disease by now, or been in Chopper crash, or slipped in the shower...but ohh noo, not this guy he just keeps going and going...
For now anyway...;)
Uh, food is a fuel! I know my engine stops if I quit eating.
Cuba needs to vote him off the island, put him in a box, and push him offshore....
Fidel is a little slow.
WWIII was the cold war, Fidel.
WWIV is what we’re in now; started, Fidel old boy, by your friends the Islamofascists.
all of the above may have already happened??
If he’s right, he’s right for the wrong reasons. America can afford this experiment, and he’s got nothin’.
“all of the above may have already happened??”
Hmm, an optimist...I like that...lol!
Castro was willing to risk World War III to keep Soviet missiles in Cuba. And he was willing to nuke all those nice liberals who kiss his butt today.
“danger of a massive world famine is aggravated by Mr. Bush’s recent initiative to transform foods into fuel”
This is the first time in my memory when Castro actually said something that makes sense. I bet it drives his fellow leftists crazy.
If you throw enough darts at a dartboard, eventually one is gonna stick.
I would really like to hear him fully reason this out. Then again; who cares? Is he dead yet?
Castro is against ethanol, I bet Sean Penn and those of his ilk in Hollyweird are really pissed off at the Cuban dictator.
(Chirp)
This, from the AH who had nuclear missles aimed at us.
we won’t but we will end it
“”Dictators say a lot of things, and most of them can be discounted, including that,” said White House press secretary Dana Perino.”
A polite way of saying “He talks a lot of bull%*&$....we just ignore him”. :^)
He’s been reading those liberal talking points again
Was Castro in Carter’s cabinet?... they named a street after him in SF... ... maybe they were just lovers.
Just had to respond to a student on this topic:
You may have some points there, but you sure picked some curious sources to back it up.
Listen to Fidel Castro? The last time his country listened to him voluntarily, he had promised to end corrupt government, to secure citizens’ private property, to open national elections in three months, to allow freedom of the press, and to establish friendly relations with the U.S. If anyone is under the impression that Castro kept any of these promises, it’s time for “Castro’s Cuba 101”:
Visit “The Real Cuba” online:
http://www.therealcuba.com/
Visit “Havana: The new art of making ruins”
(In Spanish with English subtitles)
http://z8.invisionfree.com/CAFE_CUBANO/index.php?showtopic=4025
“Ruins” is a good companion piece to “The Lost City” by Andy Garcia and the memories among that DVD’s special features:
http://www.thelostcitythemovie.com/
Or take a peek here at Cuba before Fidel Castro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGfqhQfyXRE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4a8Yruys08
See what passes as “Improper Conduct” in Cuba and what happens to people who are accused of it:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8977190502944603700
Castro wrote an essay about Hunger and Death? Well, I see you went straight to the expert. In the 1950’s Cuba’s standard of living was higher than any other Latin American country and even half of Europe. “But in 1962 Castro’s government introduced ration cards that persist to this day.” “The Soviets ended up pumping some $130 billion into Cuba. That’s ten Marshall plans, and pumped — not into a war-ravaged continent of 300 million — but into an island of 7-9 million. Yet the ration cards persist to this day.”
“Prior to 1959 Cuba experienced net immigration. In fact — as a percentage of population — Cuba took in more immigrants in the 20th century than the U.S.” “Before Castro, more Americans lived in Cuba than Cubans in the U.S. Back then people were as desperate to enter Cuba as they are now to escape. Come Castro and half-starved Haitians (a short 60 miles away) turn up their nose at Cuba.” “”By 1992 two million Cubans had fled Cuba, most against staggering odds and with only the clothes on their back. By most estimates this is a tiny fraction of those who desired to leave. A causeway from Havana to Key West in 1961 with the same free travel as existed in Cuba (indeed, in all civilized countries) in 1958 would have emptied the island in two months.”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=912
In the 70’s Castro let Cuban’s leave to America for a while, but both Castro and President Carter agreed to put an end to it because it was looking like most of Cuba was going to empty into Florida.
Again, Castro is an odd one to cite on behalf of peace. “Castro wrote in his essay that Bush ‘threatens humanity with World War III, this time using atomic weapons.’” Obviously, he’s jealous. If the world had let Castro keep his atomic weapons, he would have shown us how to use them. So now you’re suggesting that the world goes ahead and let’s his best friends have some?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3U3ATRiboI
“Khrushchev documents in his memoirs how Castro pleaded with him to launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the U.S. in October of 1962. The telegram making the plea sits in the Kennedy Library today. Some think Khrushchev’s fear of Castro’s officers somehow getting hold of the nuclear buttons was a bigger factor in his decision to remove the missiles than the ‘blockade’ (in fact, 55 ships breached it) imposed by the Kennedy administration around Cuba at the time. The prudence of Khrushchev’s decision was revealed the following month by Castro’s second-in-command, Che Guevara. ‘If the missiles had remained,’ he told The London Daily Worker in November 1962, “We would have used them against the very heart of the U.S., including New York. We must never establish peaceful co-existence. In this struggle to the death between 2 systems we must gain the ultimate victory. We must walk the path of liberation even if it costs millions of atomic victims.’ “
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=912
Speaking of listening to Russian leaders, are you also suggesting that we follow their examples? Let’s see now… A nationalist leader is denying the Jewish holocaust and repeatedly threatening to wipe the Jewish nation from the map, and a Russian leader has decided to keep a tentative peace with him. If that doesn’t help a student make some sort of connections from a history class, then that answers Kris Anderson’s first two questions.
At this point I wouldn’t want to be the student or the President who couldn’t guess what was happening in August 1939. We might as well say that Stalin was right to make that treaty, and FDR should have tried even harder to avoid war. Who knows, maybe everything would have turned out great for everybody (even the Jews) if we had just left them alone.
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