Cuba put US on notice with Monday's massive war games

[Judi Lynn]

Cuba put US on notice with Monday's massive war games
12-12-2004, 19h46


Adalberto Roque - (AFP/File)
HAVANA (AFP) - Cuba's armed forces are gearing up for their biggest military exercises in almost 20 years, with hundreds of thousands of troops and millions of civilians expected to take part, officials here said.

General Leonardo Andollo told reporters on Sunday that MiG-29 jets, anti-aircraft batteries were to be deployed during the weeklong exercises meant to be a warning to Washington that Cuba would vigorously defend itself against US aggression.

The mass war games start Monday and are due to run through to December 19.

Senior military and Communist government officials here warned that the administration of US President George W. Bush should take note of the island's war footing.

"The determination of the US administration to destroy the (Cuban) revolution however they can, including militarily, determines the necessity of conducting these exercises," Andollo, the deputy chief of Cuba's Armed Revolutionary Forces (FAR), said.
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http://www.turkishpress.com/world/news.asp?id=041212194641.rbeqjbr4.xml

[franmarz]

1. Why dont we just quit messing with Cuba?

The poor people of Cuba dont have anything to do with the power play that Washington has going on. What the hell are we trying to prove, or is there some profit to be had somewhere in the administration? Let the poor people alone - I say.

[Just Me]

9. I guess you have not yet acknowledged the vengefulness,...

,...and greed and control-freakishness involved with the BFEE and their following.

It's all about power-mongering.

Human life or love or strength or hope or grace,...humanity's democracy or freedom or justice or liberty,...has absolutely NOTHING to do with this obsession for domination.

They want control and power and profit,...for themselves. They actually fight against such noble principles as "freedom", "justice", "hope", "democracy" because,...if those notions were fully realized,...they would lose their power. They couldn't give that up.

[louis-t]

2. It's the same old story from * co.

They've been saber rattling again, and no one in the world trusts *. You wonder why we're having to deal with Iran nukes again? All that evil empire talk. Why is Cuba doing war games? * got more sanctions against Cuba and wants even more. The old Cold War relics in his admin still stay up nights studying McCarthyism. They believe in it. And so, I leave you with a question to this bunch of imperialists: "Mr. B*sh, have you not one shred of decency?" OK, so I stole the line, but it still applies.

[TheFarseer]

3. When is cuba going to learn

If you're going to be communist, you at least have to produce lots of cheap shit for Walmart or else we will put sanctions on you and threaten to invade you every once in a while.

[rndmprsn]

5. FOR REAL! n/t

[Judi Lynn]

6. No doubt Bush wouldn't think twice about blowing them all up.

He's the first President the rightwing Miami "exile" extremists have ever had who would no doubt be happy to slaughter the whole island to prove he can damned well do what he wants. They have been studying space photos of Cuba for years in Miami. I believe _Bush would dearly love revenge for his father's CIA misadventure in the Bay of Pigs, which didn't go well for them.

Knight Ridder Newspapers March 30, 2001

First commercial satellite photo of Cuba is released

By Warren P. Strobel


WASHINGTON -- A private satellite firm has released the first commercially available picture of Cuba as seen from outer space, depicting in crisp detail ships in Havana harbor, railroad tracks and even the lettering on the roof of a huge warehouse.

The image, snapped in January by a spacecraft orbiting 423 miles overhead, is the latest example of how "spy" satellites, once the exclusive domain of defense and intelligence agencies, have gone private. And the impact of that shift is just beginning to be felt, say experts on the technology.

In the case of Cuba, the effect could be both political and economic. Some Cuban exiles in the Miami area say satellite photographs could be used to inspect and map properties they still claim on the island.

"Many of these people have not seen their properties for 40 years," said Nick Gutierrez, a Miami-area lawyer with about 100 clients who have claims. "We are not going to get these properties back until Fidel Castro is gone. But there are certain steps we can take to prepare for that day."
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2001/010330-ikonos.htm


http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=10879

[0007]

13. Cuba produces cigars for the crime cabal in Washington D.C.

....and it still isn't good enough! I think Wallmart runs the country, LOL!!

[pinerow]

4. This frigging misadministration must be smoking

the real ghange...

[Mika]

7. Practice makes perfect

Judi Lynn, I thought you'd like this 'toon.

[Vogon_Glory]

8. Boosh Regime: High Crimes and Misdemeanors

The more I think of it, the more I think that the fellow in the White House and his Veep should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, convicted, and removed from office. The Boosh regime has frightfully misused their war-making powers in Iraq and could have convinced itself that invading and occupying Cuba would be a cakewalk. Unfortunately, what with the Republicans in control of Congress and the Senate, articles of impeachment are even less likely than little green men landing in Brussels and granting the EU exclusive rights to trade for Earth with the rest of the inhabited Galaxy.

One of my projects during the next few years is to read the Federalist papers. I am convinced that this maladministration's actions are precisely the ones that the Founding Fathers described as high crimes and misdemeanors, not consensual hanky-panky with star-struck interns.

[VegasWolf]

10. At this point chimpanzee couldn't take on Grenada! n/t

[Liberal Chad from WI]

11. BUSH BETTER NOT

I would like 2 say bush has enough brains not to bomb cuba but u never know we are fitin a useless war right now. if he gets greedy enough i could see him doing somethign really stupid like sendin cuba a "message." WOW that woudl cause sum big probs.

[Vogon_Glory]

12. Spread The Word to Your Evil Twin

Chad, good buddy, you might want to spread the word to your Freeper/BoortzBunny/Dittohead evil twin that even the dumbed-down, not-so-liberal corporate media is wising up to the fact that the US military is currently overextended in its war against terrorism and doesn't have the resources to fight yet another insurgency in Cuba.

Your evil twin might find this notion strange--but considering the fact that the US military has slowed the rates of discharges for its personnel, that it's recalling people discharged years ago, and that the guardsmen and reservists have been away for a lot longer than they anticipated, you might think that Generalissimo Gee Dubya Bush has bitten off more than he can chew for shoe-string budget imperium.

The US cannot afford to have another destabilized country whose lawlessness would provide another safe haven for al Qaeda terrorists, let alone a smuggling point for hard-core drugs or worse, which is what a combat-zone Cuba would become. However much I may dislike the way Fidel runs Cuba, the fact is that Cuba is stable right now, and the old boy in charge has enough good sense to realize that Islamic extremists threaten his Marxist Cuba, too.

BTW, if your evil twin is such a sooper-dooper patriot, why doesn't he or she go down to one of the fine military recruiters and ENLIST? Or does your evil twin, like Texas congressman Tom DeLay, think that enlisting is just for the poor and minorities?

[struggle4progress]

14. kick

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