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Lebanon Opposition Demands Total Syrian Withdrawal
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Fifth Column
A True Believer
You should read this posting/exchange at Babalu Blog about Castro.

Power to the People!

I just had the following comment posted on the Monte Rouge video post and...I...I just couldnt resist:

I am not Cuban but was fortunate enough to have journeyed to the island before Bush's crackdown on the right to travel in 03... in fact I arrived the day after the so-called crackdown and the execution of the three. I found no sympathy on the island for any of these. And when I heard a chanting mass of people outside the Havana Libre hotel, I was stunned to peak outside and see Castro walking down the street among voracious clapping to a studio to give his response to the wave of hijackings that prompted th execution of the 3 ferry hijackers (who used the same razors as the 9/11 terrorists and threatened the lives of all on board).

How can you equate 3 men hijacking a plane to seek the freedom they do not have to men who hijack a plane to murder innocents? Not that I condone their actions, but certainly they deserve some mercy, if only even because they didnt actually kill anyone. I suppose you are also pro capital punishment here in the States, too, right? Right???

And silly Matthew, dont you know that whenever castro travels anywhere on the island there are lead people who go on ahead of him and gather up "supporters?" Or that they shoo away those who could be considered "subversives?"

I found Cuba the most enchanting place I have ever been. Havana is the most beautiful city in the Western Hemisphere, due to lack of capitalism and strong preservation laws....

Posted by: anonymous2u || 03/03/2005 1:11:21 AM || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Poverty is quaint. I went into a grocery store (well it was more like those reconstructed pioneer homes you see in heritage villages) in Cuba to see what they had for sale. All they would sell me was sardines in rusted cans. They seemed to have more (not much) but that seemed to be reserved for favored customers. So there you have it. Under Socialism you are free to eat as many sardines out of rusted cans as you like.
Posted by: phil_b || 03/03/2005 3:04 Comments || Top||

#2  actually one amazing thing about Castro's Cuba is that beautiful woman will have sex for supper -- gives new meaning to the phrase, "will work for food".
Posted by: mhw || 03/03/2005 8:10 Comments || Top||

#3  The right to teavel. Yeah amendment 15,23/48-(j) in the EU Constitution.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 03/03/2005 8:51 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2005-03-03
  Lebanon Opposition Demands Total Syrian Withdrawal
Wed 2005-03-02
  France moving commando support ship to Med
Tue 2005-03-01
  Protesters Back on Beirut Streets; U.S. Offers Support
Mon 2005-02-28
  Lebanese Government Resigns
Sun 2005-02-27
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Sat 2005-02-26
  Rice demands Palestinians find those behind attack
Fri 2005-02-25
  Tel Aviv Blast Reportedly Kills 4
Thu 2005-02-24
  Bangla cracks down on Islamists
Wed 2005-02-23
  500 illegal Iranian pilgrims arrested in Basra
Tue 2005-02-22
  Syria to withdraw from Lebanon. No, they're not.
Mon 2005-02-21
  Zarq propagandist is toes up
Sun 2005-02-20
  Bakri talks of No 10 suicide attacks
Sat 2005-02-19
  Lebanon opposition demands "intifada for independence"
Fri 2005-02-18
  Syria replaces intelligence chief
Thu 2005-02-17
  Iran and Syria Form United Front


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