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Adding injury to insult: Bush administration lies by omission
<SMALL>Via Babalu Blog:SMALL>about offer of medical help from Cuba September 5, 2005âLast Friday, a grateful US State Department officially thanked the countries whose governments had offered help in relieving the distress on the Gulf Coast caused by hurricane Katrina. Cuba was not on the list. A sorrowful Fidel Castro, reporting to the people on Saturday, minutely traced the evidence that documented the official trail left by their offer made shortly after 11:32 on the morning of 30 August, when President Castro asked Exterior Minister Felipe Rodriguez to issue an immediate communique to the US Special Interests Section in Havana and through the equivalent Cuban office in Washington, promising medical support for the US victims of a hurricane the tail end of which had already hit Cuba, raising sea levels that battered the island's northern coast, leaving behind punishing torrential rains, while slamming its rage against the Florida coast. In the aftermath of this ordeal, when the hurricane was reaching category 5, Cuba thought of her threatened northern neighbors and offered instant helpâas it had done on 9/11, an offer firmly but politely refused. On this occasion, however, there was not even the politeness of an acknowledgment. Result? Cuba's embarrassment before the world, which had come to expect and witness its people's unfailing and prompt commitment, to anyone, anywhere, regardless of ideology or diplomatic tiffs. A smear by omission. SNIP Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-09-06 |
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