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Fidel Castro blasts Cheney's defense of counterterrorism methods, says torture always wrong
New York Newsday / The Associated Press ^ | May 27, 2009

Posted on 05/27/2009 6:59:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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The screams of tormented (Cuban) women

“Day and night, the screams of tormented women in panic and desperation who cry for God’s mercy fall upon the deaf ears of prison authorities. They are confined to narrow cells with no sunlight called “drawers” that have cement beds, a hole on the ground for their bodily needs, and are infested with a multitude of rodents, roaches, and other insects.

These female prisoners lack all sort of necessary personal possessions and almost always have no water, even for bathing, often drinking this precious liquid full of insects. The food distributed to them is terrible, smells rotten, and is stored in receptacles lacking in hygiene. Even prison officials have complained of the small quantities served.

In these “drawers” the women remain weeks and months. When they scream in terror due to the darkness (blackouts are common) and the heat, they are injected sedatives that keep them half-drugged.”

http://www.cubaverdad.net/torture_in_cuba.htm


21 posted on 05/27/2009 7:10:43 PM PDT by Hugin (GSA! (Goodbye sweet America))
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Castro's Torture!

22 posted on 05/27/2009 7:12:54 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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I immediately looked for John Semmons' by-line after reading that head. How insane has the world become?

The idea that AP would give any credibility at all to murderer Castro shows how low it's descended. They must not teach any history at all in schools these days.

23 posted on 05/27/2009 7:13:59 PM PDT by Bernard Marx ("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
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Castro: Torture is always wrong, but allowing Che to shoot bullets into people’s heads is A-OK!

JoMa


24 posted on 05/27/2009 7:14:20 PM PDT by joma89
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Who says dead men tell no lies?


25 posted on 05/27/2009 7:14:24 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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The last speech of Ceausescu

Comrade FIDEL aint out of the woods yet.

What comes around goes around, and that red son of a bitch in Cuba may yet get whats coming to him.

Paybacks a bitch.

26 posted on 05/27/2009 7:15:27 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Texas Fossil

Yup, after all, the dead tell no lies...


27 posted on 05/27/2009 7:15:35 PM PDT by piytar (Take back the language: Obama axing Chrystler dealers based on political donations is REAL fascism!)
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Castro says torture should never be used to extract information.

This is not an inconsistent philosphical position, in spite of appearances. Castro apparently believes that, as Orwell's torturer in 1984 said: "The purpose of torture is torture." Not to extract any information, but simply to punish deviation.

Because there is no doubt that torture--real torture--is national policy in Cuba.

28 posted on 05/27/2009 7:15:47 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr a)
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Is this satire?


29 posted on 05/27/2009 7:19:25 PM PDT by jazminerose
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This coming from Fidel Castro. In other news, Bill Clinton opines that oral sex is a sin, Bonnie Parker says that bank robbery is despicable, and Pot calls Kettle black.


30 posted on 05/27/2009 7:20:08 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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There really is something upsetting when a person who is known to be a practitioner of a particular evil such as Castro and torture, speaks like he is a saint and accuses his betters of the same, and people take him seriously.

My Sister worked at Eglin AFB as a clerk typist during Summers while in college in the early 60’s. There happened to be a large number of Cubans at Eglin at the time and just about all of them had been tortured by Castro’s minions.


31 posted on 05/27/2009 7:20:26 PM PDT by yarddog
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The Associated Press is pretty much useless as a source of accurate information, and is doing the country a disservice. Are they incapable of diving into the facts of the Castro regime?


32 posted on 05/27/2009 7:20:33 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by governments. You've been warned.)
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This is a joke, right? Fidel Castro, whose regime employed (and employs today) torture as a matter of course and standard procedure, is sayinbg torture is bad? Then WHY THE F**K didn’t he discontinue its practice!


33 posted on 05/27/2009 7:23:30 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Actually, it was Raul, not Che, who was the executioner of the “revolution”. Raul is hated in Cuba.


34 posted on 05/27/2009 7:26:24 PM PDT by Juan Medén
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Yeah, right. Read THIS and get back to me.
35 posted on 05/27/2009 7:29:19 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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That’s right, assassins like Che Guevara should just kill any political prisoners.


36 posted on 05/27/2009 7:30:25 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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Noted this-

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ridley/che-it-aint-so_b_67729.html?page=2

What is in little dispute is the savagery of his tenure as the commander of the La Cabaña Fortress prison. Think of it as Cuba’s Abu Ghraib. In a mere five months Guevara oversaw and personally signed off on the execution of as many as 500 people. Men, women, children. Not all merely loyalists to overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Also executed were political prisoners, dissidents, artist, intellectuals and homosexuals. A representative number of the left the revolution was supposed to be lifting up.

His bloody handiwork should come as no surprise. Before Guvera was a soap pitchman from beyond the grave, he was the “The Butcher of la Cabaña” who preached: “hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine.”


37 posted on 05/27/2009 7:32:00 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
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Good post, thank you.


38 posted on 05/27/2009 7:33:39 PM PDT by Juan Medén
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Castro said that? OMG. I’m LOL! That’s classic, precious, ridiculous! Alice in Wonderland material!


39 posted on 05/27/2009 7:39:52 PM PDT by saganite (What would Sully do?)
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That is rich coming from him. Wow.


40 posted on 05/27/2009 7:44:12 PM PDT by Pinkbell
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