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Obama's Cuba initiative backfires big-time
American Thinker ^ | January 30, 2015 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 01/30/2015 9:07:35 AM PST by jazusamo

Raúl Castro knows a sucker when he sees one. Having watched Barack Obama, the world’s worst negotiator, hand concession after concession to the mullahs of Iran, he is going for a big score in the current negotiations over resumption of diplomatic relations, at President Obama’s initiative. Far from being grateful that he has been handed huge plums, he is making ridiculous demands. (And given Obama’s track record, you can’t call them unrealistic.) Alastair Jamieson reports for NBC News:

Cuban President Raul Castro has demanded that the United States hand back its Guantanamo Bay military base - an apparent bargaining tool in the restoration of full diplomatic relations between the countries.

Castro also asked for a complete lifting of the decades-old trade embargo and for compensation for its effects, saying that without these changes the recent diplomatic thaw "wouldn't make any sense."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: castro; cuba; execytiveaction; obama
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Anyone think reparations, an apology and deep bow from 0bama are not a possibility?
1 posted on 01/30/2015 9:07:35 AM PST by jazusamo
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How is it a backfire when the plan all along is to give back Gitmo?


2 posted on 01/30/2015 9:09:08 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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Cuban President Raul Castro has demanded that the United States hand back its Guantanamo Bay military base

Well, there you go. Crystal clear, as Col Nathan Jessup said.

3 posted on 01/30/2015 9:10:45 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: ColdOne

BINGO!!


4 posted on 01/30/2015 9:11:06 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Yep, wouldn’t be a surprise if 0bama had that in mind all along.


5 posted on 01/30/2015 9:12:14 AM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: jazusamo

The RADICAL LEFT, with its frothing, fanatic effort to deconstruct America, will charge forward to give up Guantanamo to appease the Muslim world and weaken America’s security and military capability.

Just watch the Muslim-In-Chief now....as Congress continues to allow this ongoing crime against America.


6 posted on 01/30/2015 9:14:21 AM PST by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: EagleUSA

” .as Congress continues to allow this ongoing crime against America.”

Both parties are funded by the same globalist scum.


7 posted on 01/30/2015 9:28:52 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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8 posted on 01/30/2015 9:30:49 AM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: ColdOne

9 posted on 01/30/2015 9:31:05 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: jazusamo

Carter gave up the Panama Canal.
Obama will give up Guantanamo Bay.

Did Clinton give up anything?.....................


10 posted on 01/30/2015 9:36:38 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: jazusamo

“Yep, wouldn’t be a surprise if 0bama had that in mind all along.”

If we dothat the Cubans wouldnt hate us as much as they do now. And knowing Castro, he would sell the base to the Russians, just to rub our face in it.


11 posted on 01/30/2015 9:41:47 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: Red Badger

He surely gave up his self esteem if he had any.


12 posted on 01/30/2015 9:45:49 AM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: jazusamo

Oh, his self esteem is intact.
His self respect, not so much........................


13 posted on 01/30/2015 9:59:45 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

The Chinese maintain an advanced electronic base in the center of the Havana province to intercept all electronic communications in U.S. and is equipped for eventual cyber attacks to U.S.

Putin is reopening the spy base in the outskirts of Havana that was closed after the dismembering of the Soviet Union.

Six months before the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attack to New York and Washington, Fidel Castro, speaking at Tehran University in Iran on May 10, 2001, vowed that “the imperialist king will finally fall”, that their cooperation would put the U.S. down its knees. The hatred of the Castro brothers against U.S. has not mellowed after 56 years in power.

After Obama surrender to the communist regime the American base in Cuba, Castro might give the Guantanamo base to Iran to consolidate and strengthen the Cuban ties to the Islamic terrorist network, an alliance that started since the very beginning of taken power in Cuba the communist revolution.


14 posted on 01/30/2015 10:06:48 AM PST by Dqban22 (Hpo<p> http://i.imgur.com/26RbAPxjpg)
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To: Red Badger

US economic preeminence, by granting MFN trading status to China.


15 posted on 01/30/2015 10:24:19 AM PST by oblomov (White privilege: the contemporary left's way of saying "the Jews".)
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To: ColdOne

When he apologized for past colonization it was obvious that was where he was headed.


16 posted on 01/30/2015 10:24:21 AM PST by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
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To: jazusamo

Will Obama choke on that Cuban Cigar ?


17 posted on 01/30/2015 10:36:51 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: jazusamo

What Castro wanrs, Obama wants.

Pretty simple.


18 posted on 01/30/2015 10:40:40 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: molson209

With his experience, I doubt it.


19 posted on 01/30/2015 10:42:14 AM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: jazusamo

Raul, chupa mi pinga.

5.56mm


20 posted on 01/30/2015 10:48:32 AM PST by M Kehoe
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