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| Cuba backs Russia over crisis |
| 2008-08-11 |
| CUBA has backed Russia in its conflict with Georgia, saying Russia's demand for Georgia's full pullout from South Ossetia before agreeing to a ceasefire was "just". "The demand for prior withdrawal of the invaders is just, and our government supports it,'' Cuban President Raul Castro said in a written statement. Mr Castro said Russian troops had been deployed in South Ossetia legally as a peacekeeping force. "Therefore, it is false to assert that Georgia is now defending its national sovereignty,'' he said. Russia sent its tanks and troops to pro-Moscow South Ossetia on Friday in response to pro-Western Georgia's military offensive to take back the province, which broke away in the early 1990s after a separatist war. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 Can we start issueing US passports to Cubans, and then invade with overhwlimg foce, a naval blocka, and set up "peacekeepers" in Cuba? Sure! Imagine the parties in Miami! |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2008-08-11 19:35 |
| #10 I dunno if I want to see the US invade Cuba. The first thing that'll happen is Congress will shut down all their oil drilling. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2008-08-11 15:25 |
| #9 We should issue a UN statement condemning Russia for it's unprovoked attack on it's tiny neighbor and state that we would never do that....first. Then attack, overwhelm, and create a democracy in Cuba. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2008-08-11 15:18 |
| #8 Can we start issueing US passports to Cubans, and then invade with overhwlimg foce, a naval blocka, and set up "peacekeepers" in Cuba? |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-11 14:02 |
| #7 Heh! If it's communists doing the invading it's called "liberation". If it's Americans doing the invading it's called "imperialism". |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2008-08-11 12:54 |
| #6 I wonder if Castro has considered the precedent of a big neighbor brutally swallowing a small bordering country? Time to wet his pants? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-08-11 10:46 |
| #5 Anyone surprised? Why? |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-08-11 08:43 |
| #4 Who yanked this asshole's chain anyway? Of course he agrees with Russia, what the hell else is he going to do. |
| Posted by: Lonzo Unolump2106 2008-08-11 07:48 |
| #3 Once a Red always a Red - the color didn't change just the contrast, brightness and sharpness. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-08-11 04:22 |
| #2 What doses he say to the bombing of civilians outside SO? Hmm you little lapdog Fidel? AN asskisser to the end, trying to beg crumbs form his masters. Pathetic. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-11 01:59 |
| #1 OTOH, TOPIX > IRAN TRYING TO SIDE WITH GEORGIA. Iran = Tehran Times appears to had adopted the US position on the Ossetian conflict??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-08-11 01:13 |