Fidel Castro says Obama's smile can't be trusted

[Algorem]

Source: reuters

Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:31pm EST

HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro warned on Monday that President Barack Obama's "kindly smile" could not be trusted, saying Washington was plotting against leftist Latin American governments including Venezuela's.

Castro, 83, who ran Cuba for nearly 50 years before poor health led him to hand the presidency to his younger brother Raul last year, initially welcomed Obama's election but has been increasingly critical...



"The empire is mobilizing behind rightist forces in Latin America to strike Venezuela and, in doing so, strike (other leftist) states," the letter said...


Chavez, Washington's most outspoken critic in Latin America, called Obama "the Nobel War Prize" winner on Monday.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BE03120091215

[IndianaGreen]

1. The facts support Fidel

Why do we have Marines in Honduras? Why are we building and expanding military bases in Colombia?

[Imajika]

2. Same old tired rhetoric from Fidel...

"Castro, 83, who ran Cuba for nearly 50 years before poor health led him to hand the presidency to his younger brother Raul last year..."

This speaks volumes. 50 years? And then hands the presidency to his brother? And Fidel has cheerleaders here on DU whom defend this?

[IndianaGreen]

4. The point you purposely missed, is that the Obama Administration is pursuing an imperialist policy

in Latin America.

[TheWraith]

21. No evidence for that other than the word of dictators.

Moreover, dictators who have a large vested interest in casting America as a bad guy.

[IndianaGreen]

23. Obama's ambassador to Honduras is a Miami gusano, from CIA's Pedro Pan program

The US is building and expanding bases in Colombia, to strike anywhere in the hemisphere.

[roguevalley]

32. his policies on health care, such as it is, are shit too. I am thinking I

may agree with Fidel for once and I remember him staying in New York and killing chickens in his hotel room, the faux dipshit.

[twitomy]

9. But dontcha know he got 99.99999% of the vote in the

"free and open" elections in Cuba? Better than Saddam even! LOL!

Castro throwin' Obama under the bus I'm sure has a lot of DUers here torn.

I despise all tyrants, regardless of political tilt.

[Mithreal]

11. curse that broken clock that is right twice a day

I asked you the time, not if your clock was broken. If it's right, who cares. Oh, that's right, you do.

And improper use of the thrown under the bus metaphor too.

[IndianaGreen]

14. That was our boy Karzai in Afghanistan

Have you heard of him? He is a narco-trafficker that our brave troops are being asked to die for.

[O is 44]

25. correction, that is Bush's boy

we are just stuck with him. Or would you suggest we take him out because we don't like him?

[IndianaGreen]

26. He is Obama's boy now!

[O is 44]

28. No he is not, Obama would have never

put this crook in power. Yes he is now stuck with him, due the the last administrations utter failures, but he is not his boy.

[EFerrari]

17. I wish it were just tired old junk. But it's not.

Last April, on Obama's watch, there was a plot against Morales and the money went right back to State.

Escalation in Colombia, in Panama and Hillary Clinton's joke of a State Department is recognizing the election in Honduras.

If I were Raul Castro, I'd be tired too of having to point out the same old shit, over and over and over again.

And there are pompom girls on DU who defend this?

[Marthian]

37. I was born there, have family there...

Fidel is right about US imperial designs on Latin America. You are obviously uninformed, but that's typical when discussing things outside the navel of the USA.

[Cha]

3. Fuck them both.

[IndianaGreen]

5. Chavez has brought free universal health care to his people

Can you make the same claim here about our leaders?

[twitomy]

7. Nothings "free"....

The fact that Cubans have to take the donkey to the "free" health clinic tells you how much it really costs...

Edit,,,Had Castro on the mind, not Chavez. Same principle applies.

[Mithreal]

12. become one with the logical fallacy

[WriteDown]

15. Its amazing more people don't emigrate to Cuba to take part in that...

I've always wondered why that is. Would be very easy as long as you're not a US citizen.

[Mudoria]

33. I've always wondered about that myself..

we're assured it's a paradise but I don't see boatloads of Haitians trying to get there. On the other hand most any Cuban that find something that will float long enough to get to Florida tries to leave Castro's fiefdom.

[ima_sinnic]

34. how do you know how many Haitians have tried to get to Cuba?

and speaking of Haiti, and Cuba, and injustice and lack of rights and stuff, I wouldn't go reminding people of our little colony called "Haiti," where if they democratically elect the wrong leader, the kindly ole USA goes in there and removes him. We couldn't have the Haitians being independent and NOT being our $2/hr labor force or anything as well as let them control their own land, where we have all our bananas growing.

[timo]

38. its because

the hatians cant afford anything that floats :)

[cowcommander]

6. Time to throw Castro under the bus too?

[Cha]

8. No, any asshole that takes a stupid cheap shot at the President

gets to drive the bus over Obama.

[IndianaGreen]

10. What about those of us under the Obama bus?

The Single Payer advocates, the Stupak/Nelson/Casey abortion HRC language opponents, and the anti-DADT/DOMA/Rick Warren LGBTs.

BTW, it is not a cheap shot by Fidel, but a clean shot at a target. Obama was involved in the coup in Honduras. Obama's own ambassador to Honduras is a Miami gusano.

[Ildem09]

16. RIght oh!

As someone who worked in Indianapolis and Barron Hills District. I agree with you on being under the bus! I tried to do my part! Andre and Barron both turned out to be stellar folks

[Mithreal]

13. Stop abusing that metaphor.

[twitomy]

39. I think you need a smilie

that stomps its feet to go with that,,,

[Mithreal]

40. You are so right. Have a link so I can learn how to use smileys?

Shamefully I don't really know how to use em.

Thanks in advance

[twitomy]

41. Never seen one actually...

SO I guess its my idea...But would be cool to have

[unkachuck]

18. K&R, for the truth....n/t

[hughee99]

19. A ridiculous accusation...

to suggest that Obama would choose to continue a wrongheaded military intervention in a foreign country's affairs started by a previous administration is just laughable. :sarcasm:

[IndianaGreen]

20. LMAO

Very true, hughee99.

[Odin2005]

22. Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch!

STFU, you Cold War relic.

[IndianaGreen]

24. Obama is pursuing a neocon foreign policy in Latin America

and we don't need Fidel to tell us that.

[Andronex]

30. But it seems many will support imperialism and corporatism...

if "their guy" is on top, Fidel is just pointing out the obvious, judging from the reactions here the truth does hurt...

[IndianaGreen]

31. And SOA at Fort Benning is still graduating torturers and assassins

under Obama's watch.

[ima_sinnic]

35. oh, did he say something untrue?

Messing around in other countries' business and killing people there and making them have the "leaders" we want, the economic system we want, and the freedom to take what we want from them--that's okay when it's under Obama's watch I guess. If you think we're not soon going to be openly stomping around down there like we are every other place in the world, you've been asleep. Empire never sleeps, however, and it's on YOUR dime.

[Ken Burch]

36. Our policy towards Cuba is the "Cold War Relic"

It's just silly that we're still embargoing the place to get money for rich old white Yanks who DESERVED to have their companies nationalized.

We're the only country in the world that thinks something as ugly and pointless as "private property" is a right.

[proteus_lives]

27. Ahh, Fidel.

Dictatorship's poster boy.

[boppers]

29. The smiles of Morales, Castro, and Chavez, however...

Have no murder squads and political prisons behind them, of course.

Please, look at the US, it's so unjust there that Latin American dictators and socialist corruption should get a free pass!

[NYC Liberal]

42. I trust Obama FAR, far more than I trust Castro

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro warned on Monday that President Barack Obama's "kindly smile" could not be trusted, saying Washington was plotting against leftist Latin American governments including Venezuela's.

[Vidar]

43. Nothing about Obama can be trusted.