Yay!
Posted on 10/07/2006 8:22:53 AM PDT by woofie
U.S. intelligence reports now say the Cuban leader's condition appears terminal, government officials tell TIME
Ever since President Fidel Castro was sidelined for what was said to be abdominal surgery last July, Cuban officials have maintained that the country's leader will return to his post. ''We will again have him leading the revolution,'' said Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque just two days ago, speaking at an outdoor rally to protest the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba, according to the Communist Party daily newspaper Granma.
But U.S. officials tell TIME that many in the U.S. government are now convinced that Castro, 80, has terminal cancer and will never return to power. "Certainly we have heard this, that this guy has terminal cancer," said one U.S. official.
Of course, such intelligence reports could be wrong, and one official cautioned that definitive proof is nearly impossible for the U.S. to come by. Yet the fact that the Cuban government removed Castro from the public stage before his death could suggest that Castro and his would-be successors were aware of a terminal condition and wanted to gauge public reaction to his absence. "They got to see how people would react," says one U.S. official. "They have had a chance to see how things might work without out him functioning day-to-day."
The U.S. government has been preparing for Castro's departure for half a century. But this time, the Bush Administration has set up an interagency group to coordinate policy once the inevitable happens....
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great one oldbill!
The old loser had quite a run.
Fidel! Fidelllll! C'mon Fidel, it's long past time for your dirtnap."
Like duh! Remove colon for internal bleeding, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure this is a nasty cancer.
Here's hoping he'll soon join his close buddy Che in Hell!
And how about Jimmie (Worst President of My Lifetime) Carter? He probably will deliver the eulogy at fidel's funeral.
Lord, forgive for what I would like to post here.
However, please remove this human cancer from earth. I want to go to Cuba to urinate on Castro's grave and fly fish with the freed Cubans.
That means Baba Wawa must be there *now.*
Castro has been dead for months.
Newsweek will probably feature Castro's portrait on the cover, with a black border to signify mourning.
My suggestion to Fidal if he just happens to be reading this tread is to turn to God. Just think if he converted on his death bed and changed his country into a place of freedom.
That is the choice, Mr Castro, repent your sins and embrace Christ and maybe he will forgive you and you will go to Heaven.
Or hope the Communists is right about no after life because you will burn in hell.
Probably a result of a CIA plot from the Kennedy administration. Those suckers are patient!
I hope he is in pain/
Bump Phil!
I understand what you said. In my Spanish, I call Fidel and his bunch males cabrones. That is what they are.
Have to wonder, will they pickle Castro like they did Lenin?
Who cares, wake me when he's dead.
He can't die fast enough for me. Supposedly when Stalin died he actually strangled to death due to the type of illness he had. Here's hoping Castro's death is as painful as the pain he inflicted on Cuba during his evil reign. How's that for being a compassionate conservative? But my compassion only falls on those who deserve it. Castro deserves to die a thousand cruel deaths for what he's done.
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