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| Adding injury to insult: Bush administration lies by omission |
| 2005-09-06 |
| <SMALL>Via Babalu Blog:SMALL> about offer of medical help from Cuba September 5, 2005—Last 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 help—as 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 |
| #7 http://www.babalublog.com/archives/002191.html |
| Posted by: Dick Lynes 2005-09-06 20:41 |
| #6 Moved. |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-09-06 19:48 |
| #5 The real question is how many of them will go back to Cuba! Well, the ones without death threats against their families... |
| Posted by: Mark E. 2005-09-06 19:32 |
| #4 What drives Fidel bonkers is that the US just doesn't treat him seriously. Doesn't really care what he thinks. Sneers at him as a buffoon and mericon, instead of the hombre he pictures himself. Reminding him that he is minor league. Chavez is much the same way. They defines themselves by how much he can get America to pay attention to them. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-09-06 19:13 |
| #3 Well, that didn't work. Fred, please delete and I'll try again. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-09-06 18:46 |
| #2 I do, I do! |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-09-06 18:45 |
| #1 Links back to Rantburg - if you don't have a real link, post it in Opinion, anon. As for medical help from Cuba: You're kidding, right? I'd rather take care of my own medical needs; I'd have a better chance of survival. Anyway, we have more than enough homegrown medical help. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-09-06 17:31 |