[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bush asked Castro was to relax his commie grip a little on the Cuban people in return for trade considerations. Castro just squeezed harder.

Fidel Castro - Cuba

The Last Straw? White House lashes Cuba over dissident crackdown*** WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House pointed an accusing finger at Cuba's latest crackdown on dissidents, calling it proof President Fidel Castro's government remains a "totalitarian blight" on the region.

"We are not going to reverse our policy of helping the dissidents," pledged national security spokesman Michael Anton, who said US President George W. Bush was "deeply concerned" about Castro's heavy-handed tactics.

In the widest crackdown on opposition to the Castro government in years, dozens of dissidents, including journalists, economists and political reformers, were sentenced to lengthy prison terms this week.

"The Castro regime's arrest, prosecution and sentencing of these brave and peaceful activists are repugnant reminders that the regime remains a totalitarian blight in an otherwise peaceful and democratic hemisphere," said Anton.

The US House of Representatives meanwhile unanimously approved a resolution condemning the arrests of 79 Cuban dissidents and the harsh sentences handed down to dozens of them.

The measure passed by 414 "yes" votes and 10 abstentions, said the office of Florida Republican Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart, who co-sponsored it.

"The House of Representatives sent a clear message today in support of the Cuban people's right to be free and in opposition to the brutal tyranny that oppresses Cuba," said Diaz-Balart, a Cuban-American and hardline Fidel Castro opponent.

"Today's vote honors the Cuban people as well as the American people," he said. ***

[JudgemAll]

Here we go again on a Palestinian appeasement mode like. These people act evil because of us. What should that make us act like because of them? This is such an imature and crude statement giving whatever additional ludicrous reason to smear the US and praise evil.

I say fake currency, propaganda and bad calculations need to be punished. There is a reason why people do not shout fire where there is no fire.

Last but not least, we need peace for truth, not for people, let alone for scoundrels like Castro. Instead of asking us to investigate the truth in this matter, they lay the blame and turn away their faces from investigation that might prove the opposite. Free speech, free accademic endeavor and free investigation and freedom should be the motto, but it is not the tone of this false welfare and false peace article.

[JudgemAll]

"It's like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde approach to the US in its relation," said Erikson.

And what is Erikson's agenda here? Smearing the US, equating it to Castro at best? Excrement flingers were born and proven in Hitler's Nazi propaganda. Any reason to push socialism and destroy the US.

[JudgemAll]

[Beck_isright]

I hope W tells him to go to hell. This is all about OIL, unlike Iraq. If Catro can provoke the U.S. into tightening trade with Cuba, his Marxist buddy in Venezuela might cut off the oil to the U.S. and trigger the long anticipated crisis between the U.S. and Latin America. Until our CIA kills Castro, I shall continue to label them failures. We have got to get rid of this Marxist hairball and quick.