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Analysis: Castro's departure won't bring quick change in US policy

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Feb 20, 2008, 0:22 GMT


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-Feb 20th, 2008 - 04:01:56

I can't wait until Fidel is shaking hands with Che in hell.

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No ChangesFeb 20th, 2008 - 05:01:42

I will not hold my breath for changes...

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IanFeb 20th, 2008 - 10:18:49

He did pretty well - outlasted 9 american presidents trying to get rid of him !

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tonny from belgiumFeb 20th, 2008 - 16:18:36

Apparently some here suffer from melancholia for the times when Fulgencio Batista was the designated dictator of Cuba,and the island was just a brothel and casino in the hands of the Mafia,Yeah,those must have been glorious times ....

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another gem...Feb 20th, 2008 - 17:05:09

'He did pretty well - outlasted 9 american presidents trying to get rid of him !'

Yeah, dictators last along time and democracies regularly change leaders... And yeah, he did well, hundreds of thousands of Cubans had to flee the country he ran in to the ground though to escape though.

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SP4: Perhaps TonnyFeb 20th, 2008 - 19:22:53

...but Castro runs imprisonment-without-trial, has huge human rights abuse issues i.e. persecution of Gays and Lesbians, and actually kills people wo simply wish to leave.

No thanks, Tonny, I'll let some wise guys own a Casino any day, to a totalitarian!

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EdFeb 21st, 2008 - 11:05:02

But its a pretty popular tourist location - I know several people who've been and found it a refreshing change to get away from the Coca Cola/McDonalds americanisation which pollutes so many places around the world

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Re: SP4s comment ...Feb 21st, 2008 - 17:57:10

He wrote '...but Castro runs imprisonment-without-trial...'

Yeah SP4 ... just like the practice YOU SUPPORT of Bush with 'detainees' (translation: prisoners).

AFTER YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT BY BUSH - they've never been tried or proven guilty in a court of law of anything ...

At Bush's direction, they aren't given the opprtunity to see any charges or evidence against them (or even to know if any such things exist)

Bush imprisons them indefinitly with no charges or evidence ... ( exactly what the founders of our nation sought to prevent our government from being able to do as outlined in our Constitution)

And here you are saying Castro is wrong in doing so? (which is correct)

But you fail to see the direct comparison to Bush's actions.

Hypocrite.

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:-DFeb 23rd, 2008 - 06:21:20

the poor terrorists.

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The above poster ...Feb 23rd, 2008 - 17:09:27

... forgets that Bush hasn't proven them to be terrorists.

If they are ... then prove it and justice would be done.

But Bush imprisoning without charge or evidence, is the same as Castro doing it (ya see, Castro calls his prisoners 'enemies of the government' too)

SP4 simply can't grasp the similarities ... that's what hypocrites like him, who don't understand our nations founding principles, do.

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