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"Bush wants to kill me!"
Fidel Castro hysterically accused U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday of plotting with Miami exiles to kill him as part of his administration’s hardening policies against the communist-run island. ’’We know that Mr. Bush has committed himself to the mafia ... to assassinate me,’’ the Cuban president said, using the term commonly employed here to describe anti-Castro Cuban Americans. Castro’s comments came at the end of a long-winded 5Âœ hour speech that began Thursday night and continued into early Friday at the closing of a conference bringing together activists across the region who oppose the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
I’ll bet a lot of them were thinking they’d be dead before he finished.
The Cuban leader didn’t back up his accusations with specific details.
"There are plots to kill me!"
"What kind of plots?"
"Deep plots!"
Castro also criticized the Bush administration’s Commission for a Free Cuba -- a panel set up last October and headed by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. When Bush announced the commission last October, Powell suggested that the goal is not to ease Castro out but to plan a strategy for Cuba once the 77-year-old leader is no longer in power.
Like who gets the major league league baseball team in Havana.
’’I can die a natural death or I can die a planned death,’’ Castro said. ``It really doesn’t matter to me how I die, but I will surely die fighting.’’
Just hurry up and die, please.
Posted by: Steve 2004-01-30
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=25289