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Cuba demands US gives back Guantanamo Bay
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Posted on 02/14/2008 1:09:42 PM PST by chemical_boy
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To: chemical_boy
OK, I have a proposal. We swap him Gitmo for the Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña. That was where Che killed a few hundred people. It has a nice view of Havana, too.
To: farmer18th
John McCain wants to pull terror suspects out of Gitmo and he wants to end water-boardingWhat does this have to do with giving up the naval base? BTW, waterboarding ended about five years ago.
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:36:51 PM PST
by
squidly
To: COBOL2Java
My thoughts also. Obama would give back Gitmo to Cuba because it’s “colonial minded” to take it.
Not so sure about Hillary or McCain though.
Hillary’s a witch. She’s a socialist witch, but I don’t think she’d ever give away anything except other people’s money.
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:37:01 PM PST
by
I still care
("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
To: chemical_boy
Ummm... OK, but you have to take Michael Moore too.
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:37:31 PM PST
by
westmichman
( God said: "They cry 'peace! peace!' but there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14)
To: chemical_boy
Come and get it, Feedell.
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:37:56 PM PST
by
misharu
(US Congress = children without adult supervision)
To: chemical_boy
CUBA LIBRE!
Here ya go Fidel, have one of these and chill.
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:41:19 PM PST
by
mc5cents
(Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
To: squidly
What does this have to do with giving up the naval base?
In this particular war, what good is a "base" if you can't use it for interrogating Muslim terrorists? Do you and John want a base you can't use? No one accused John of being a genius, but putting Muslim terrorist on a military facility, with an ocean mote between them and American citizens seems to be a reasonably sound use of resources. The best way to abandon a military asset is to make it useless-and in that he walks lock stop with Fidel.
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:42:07 PM PST
by
farmer18th
(Conservatives who vote McCain are like abused dogs who keep licking their master's hand...)
To: chemical_boy
wait a few months, and President McCain will be happy to give it back, the dumb B###trd.
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:44:14 PM PST
by
gitmogrunt
(Yes........................McCain for President!!!!!.....(of Albania))
To: farmer18th
In this particular war, what good is a "base" if you can't use it for interrogating Muslim terrorists? Do you and John want a base you can't use?I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking you don't know much about Gitmo Naval Base. We've been using it for decades for all kinds of things. We've also got a whole lot of other bases we don't use for interrogations. Are you suggesting that they are useless?
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:44:15 PM PST
by
squidly
To: chemical_boy
The dictator Communist will be appeased with Hillary, Obama, and McCain.
Does anyone wonder why they are making this demand now?
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:48:01 PM PST
by
dforest
(Nothing left to say.)
To: chemical_boy
Let’s see ... uhm ... how about a big bucket of NO.
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:50:09 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(su - | chown -740 us ./base | kill -9 | cd / | rm -r)
To: squidly
I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking you don't know much about Gitmo Naval Base. We've been using it for decades for all kinds of things.
Of course there are other uses, but, heah, John wants to curtail its usefulness in the war on terror. Very patriotic of him, isn't it? If that were the only hint of his disloyalty, you might give him a pass, but when he works with Russ Feingold to put hand-cuffs on the first amendment, when he garners an F- from Gun Owners of America, when he votes for Ruth Bader Ginsberg, when he puts a La Raza traitor on his Hispanic outreach coordinator, when he dumps his 60s era wife for his 80s era wife, when he calls Evangelicals agents of intolerance, he's starts smelling like a stinking, Bolshevik turd, don't you think?
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:50:12 PM PST
by
farmer18th
(Conservatives who vote McCain are like abused dogs who keep licking their master's hand...)
To: puroresu
With McCain, Hillary, or Obama our next president, this is indeed perfect timing on their part. 7. Do you support
a. normalization of relations with Cuba?
Our longstanding policies toward Cuba have been a miserable failure, evidenced by the fact that Fidel Castro is now the longest-serving head of state in the world. If our isolationist policies were meant to weaken him, they certainly havent worked. I believe that normalization of relations with Cuba would help the oppressed and poverty-stricken Cuban people while setting the stage for a more democratic government once Castro inevitably leaves the scene.
Barack Obama, 2004
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:50:37 PM PST
by
SJackson
(If 45 million children had lived, they'd be defending America, filling jobs, paying SS-Z. Miller)
To: indylindy
Castro endorsing McCain too?
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:51:09 PM PST
by
roses of sharon
(Who will be McCain's maverick?)
To: SJackson
Yes, if we just normalize relations with a Communist dictatorship, civil liberties will just naturally follow. Look at Red China, a regular bastion of freedom.
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posted on
02/14/2008 1:53:28 PM PST
by
farmer18th
(Conservatives who vote McCain are like abused dogs who keep licking their master's hand...)
To: chemical_boy
Come and get it you che lovin’ commie poofters.
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posted on
02/14/2008 2:03:23 PM PST
by
ExpatGator
(Extending logic since 1961.)
To: chemical_boy
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posted on
02/14/2008 2:04:41 PM PST
by
dbacks
(Taglines for sale or rent.)
To: MattinNJ
“Come and take it!”
Seems I read, many years ago, of a scenario where tens of thousands of unarmed Cubans are made to swarm across the no-man’s-land open zone (guns aimed at their backs, of course) and crowd up to the wire, demanding “asylum”. Their sheer numbers threaten to overwhelm the Marine garrison, with Marines reluctant to open fire. The garrison holds out, at first, but thousands more appear and blanket the base with a human flood.
Thoughts?
To: bert
.We got Cuba and the Philippines in that war.
We could have made it a territory of the US.
Here the snippet from Wikipedia.
The war ended after decisive naval victories for the United States in the Philippines and Cuba.
The Spanish-American War
Only 109 days after the outbreak of war, the Treaty of Paris, which ended the conflict, gave the United States ownership of the former Spanish colonies of Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam.
The Treaty of Paris provided that Cuba would become independent from Spain but the US congress made sure it would be under US control (Platt Amendment). Specifically, Spain relinquished all claim of sovereignty over - and title to - Cuba.
We won and set the terms. Independence was what we decided to do.
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posted on
02/14/2008 3:16:47 PM PST
by
ScratInTheHat
(Don't like my immigration stance? I'm dyslexic. PC keeps sounding like BS to me!)
To: elcid1970
It’s all been wargamed, and we have more than tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition.
And Marines are not reluctant to fire. They will follow orders.
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posted on
02/14/2008 3:18:10 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
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