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The Embargo has not contributed one bit to the freedom of Cuba, nor has it loosened Castros grip on the island.

I don't know where you're getting this idea that the US Taxpayer will subsidize Castro if the Embargo is lifted.

I'm almost certain that people in Cuba want the Embargo ended.

I don't know where you're getting this idea that the US Taxpayer will subsidize Castro if the Embargo is lifted.

This is becoming a LOOP.

Go back and begin at the beginning and read the LINKS and LEARN.
Repeating myself is a useless exercise and I have no intention of doing it.

The embargo was not successful because the rest of the world has been financing Castro’s tyrannical rule. Six billions dollars of economic help from the Soviet Union every year for more than three decades and forty-three years of business relations with the West did not bring prosperity or freedom to Cuba. The failure to restore freedom, democracy and prosperity to Cuba is not a product of the U.S. embargo, but rather the Western world’s complicity with Castro’s brutal exploitation of the Cuban people.

Cuba is an economic black hole thanks to Castro’s adoption of a brutal Stalinist regime that does not allow any kind of freedom, personal or economic, for 43 years he has maintained “Socialism or Death” without any room for compromises or changes. Castro brought a country that enjoyed one of the highest standards of living in Latin America down to the level of Haiti.

President Bush is a man of his word who says what he means and means what he says. We are in a worldwide war against terrorism and he is absolutely right when he affirmed that if we are going to win that war we must take it to the states that harbor and support terrorism. Cuba, at 90 miles of Florida, is the main base and haven for international terrorism in this hemisphere, and that must be the first place to start the war on terrorism in this hemisphere. Counting with biological, chemical and cyber warfare capabilities and a leader with an evil mind who has an irrational hatred towards the U.S., we must not underrate Castro’s capacity to attack us.

Furthermore, Castro never pays for whatever he purchases, he not only defaulted in all his debts but he also encourages other Third World countries to do likewise. It is not necessary to go back too far to figure out that this small country is not a good credit risk. Last year, it was reported that France canceled a grain shipment of $160 million due to Cuba's non-payment and that South Africa and Thailand stopped providing credits to the island. Eastern European governments have tried unsuccessfully to get payment on their Cuban debt. Cuba has one of the worst credit ratings in the world.

The ending of the embargo will allow Castro to raid our treasury as a result of giving Cuba access to the International Monetary Fund, and all the International Banks that are funded mainly by the U.S. taxpayers. Once the credit gates are open, then Castro’s powerful lobby in the U.S. will begin to push for riders, postponements and exclusions from the law on humanitarian bases. Do not allow to be fooled by politicians’ promises. In the end, Castro never has paid any debts and the American taxpayers would end up footing the bill.

Those businessmen, legislators, governors, and media pundits are acting as lobbyist for the Cuban government lured by promises of huge profits, although, those who tried before them, found out those dreams were mere mirages that in Cuba always end in nightmares. Those unscrupulous merchants in the slave trade are, in fact, undermining President Bush war against terrorism and endangering the security of the U.S. When you deal with the devil, you always end loosing your soul and your fortune.

I'm as rabid a Castro-hated as anyone, perhaps you're right on the embargo issue. If we want to export our ideas into Cuba, what makes more sense? Radio Marti or getting our products in there?

One of the reasons that the Russians became disenchanted with Communism was that they were able to see the quality of western-made products compared to the shoddy products that were made in Communist countries.

I agree that the last thing Castro wants is the embargo to be lifted. I suspect if the US offered to unilaterally lift the embargo, Castro would do anything to place such conditions as to keep the embargo in place. Castro IS the embargo!