Bush promises to rid Cuba of 'tyrant' Castro

[maddezmom]

MIAMI (AFP) - US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) vowed to "keep the pressure on" and rid Cuba of Fidel Castro (news - web sites), an appeal to the hard-line Cuban-Americans Bush counted on to win Florida and the White House.



"I strongly believe the people of Cuba should be free from the tyrant," Bush told a boisterous crowd of supporters here two days before the election, winning the rally's loudest cheers and chants of "Viva Bush" -- long live Bush.


"Over the next four years, we will continue to press hard and ensure that the gift of freedom finally reaches the men and women of Cuba," he said. "We will not rest, we will keep the pressure on, until the Cuban people enjoy the same freedoms in Havana they received here in America."


The crowd packed into the Coconut Grove Convention Center cheered, screamed and applauded, waving pro-Bush signs in English and Spanish and shouting "four more years!"

More: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1506&ncid=696&e=3&u=/afp/20041031/ts_alt_afp/us_vote_bush

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[Kimber Scott]

1. More nation building?

I'm surprised they think the cheering and chanting part is news. I mean, since you have to swear to cheer and chant to get into a Bush rally.

Viva la Bush? Fuck Bush.

[Sara Beverley]

50. Why does Bush think he is annointed to rid Cuba of an aging leader?

In due time, nature will take its course. Castro has outlived every US President who has ever tried to kill him and oust him. Only Carter had a decent position on Cuba. If the people there do not want him, they will get rid of him, otherwise it's between God and Castro as to the time Castro no longer leads Cuba. I am sure the Castro enjoys wider popularity within Cuba and the rest of the world than does Bush enjoy weithin the US and the rest of the world. In the meantime, We need to just damn get over it!!

[Kimber Scott]

52. Amen.

He's just pandering to the Cuban vote.

[Mika]

54. Actually, Cubans in Cuba are urging their families in Miami to vote Kerry

Cubans on both sides of the Gulf are pissed at Bush for placing more restrictions on their travel and remittances to Cuba.


Residents of Cuba Lobby for Kerry in Sunshine State
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2004/story?id=178683&page=1

HAVANA, Oct. 19, 2004 -- A multitude of unlikely volunteers is working the phones for Sen. John Kerry in the swing state of Florida. His campaign is unaware of the support, as the volunteers do not live in the United States, but in Communist-run Cuba.


Cubans, angered by a recent Bush administration measure restricting visits home by Cuban-Americans, say they are lobbying relatives hard to vote against the president just two weeks before Election Day. Early voting has already begun in Florida.

"My family in Miami never votes. They are not interested. I told them they had to get rid of Bush, and they all promised to go vote against him," housewife Amilia said, as she leaned over her third-floor balcony in a dilapidated Havana housing project. Amilia, like the other Cubans interviewed, did not want her last name used.

[Kimber Scott]

63. I didn't say he would get it, just that he was begging for it. He's out

of touch with everything else. It appears he's just as out of touch with the Cubans.

[Hand]

56. You got that right...

In the Third World, Castro's idolized by many. Why? because he kicked the CIA's ass at the Bay of Pigs and kicked the South African army's ass in Angola...

ON EDIT: I shuold add as well that for many years Cuba has been sending their SURPLUS doctors abroad to help treat patients and train medical personnel in the art of practicing medicine with no money and no equipment. Plus cheap AIDS drugs. Plus quite a few other things...

[Dickie Flatt]

2. Yeah, right

When will people realize that no President will remove Castro? It hasn't happened in the past few decades, Bush didn't do shit about it for his first four years; how damn stupid must you be to think he'll get the job done if you give him four more?

[Kierkegaard]

5. Who was it again that will 'say anything to get elected?'

Pandering of the worst kind. What a colostomy bag.

[Virginian]

22. So why didn't he do something in the first 4 years?

He had senate and house with him. He could have done anything he wanted that would have helped him get elected. If he is elected this time he won't have to face another election, so he does anything he wants, not anything he promises.

[truthisfreedom]

48. it's so transparent, isn't it? he's completely unaccountable this time.

[napi21]

3. Well, isn't that just great! Another war!!!!

Guess that's where he's going to redploy those troops he's bringing back from Korea, Germany etc. huh?

[Mokito]

23. And those f*ck*rs would be genuinely surprised when

the Cuban people resist fiercely.

Ignorant idiots.

[tsuki]

59. I say,

if the Cubans in South Florida want him gone, it's up to them. Otherwise, it is time to normalize relations.

[stray cat]

4. Really desperate for the anti-Castro vote in Florida

Promising to overthrow leaders to win the election. Sick!

[displacedtexan]

6. 48 hours away from defeat, and this is his plan?

Pathetic!

Why didn't he do this 4 years ago?

Oh, yeah. Cuba has no oil.

If Cubans fall for this, I won't respect them in the morning.

[DemOverseas]

7. IF (and he won't)

he was around to do anything for the next 4 years...Castro might fall ill and die. Then Bush -boy would take credit for getting rid of him. An act of God!

[WMliberal]

8. cognitive dissonance = GOP's Cuba policy

Trade and understanding with Communist China and Communist Vietnam is vital to our economy. Trade and understanding with Communist Cuba is WRONG WRONG WRONG! :crazy:

I can't wait until sanity reigns again.

[w13rd0]

9. Thats funny...

...he promised Castro would be gone by the end of his FIRST term back in 2000. Fuckin liar of a lying liar.

[union_maid]

10. Well, eventually

Castro will die of old age.

[txindy]

11. As Jon Stewart said about Junior's speech at the RNC,

"What he would do....IF he were pResident." :freak: Do Cuban-Americans not realize he's had complete control of Congress and the Supreme Court for the last four years? Haven't they wondered why he's not done anything for them in the last four years? Sheesh. :eyes:

[young_at_heart]

13. I'm guessing they haven't given a whole lot of thought

to anything that's been going on. All they seem to care about is getting rid of Castro...oh, and poor Elian!

[Crispus Attucks]

12. Gee, that's great, maybe it 'll be the same freedom he

gave the Iraquis.

[Zorra]

14. "Zorra promises to rid US of tyrant Bu$h"

With a lot of help from 2/3 of all the registered voters in America.

Kerry in a landslide.

[Free2BMe]

15. what beautiful guys.....

[DBoon]

16. So he finally figured he doesn't have enough troops to invade Iran

So he has decided to scale back his expectations to something he can handle.

Well, I guess accepting the reality of your limitations is a step forward for Bush.

[Mika]

39. Don't count on it.

"So he has decided to scale back his expectations to something he can handle."



No way!

Cubans won't start off with any hopes of American goodwill from the git go.

They know better.




If you think that Iraqi resistance is tough..

[Nordic]

17. Yeah, his "free market utopia" worked so well in Iraq

let's try it again somewhere else

[sr_pacifica]

19. Exactly, Freedom=Free Market

=Freedom for Investors. Bush's business cronies just can't wait to invade Cuba.

[Nordic]

24. here's awesome article on the plan they HAD for Iraq:

http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html


Baghdad Year Zero

Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia

[sr_pacifica]

28. Thanks for the link.

Perhaps you could start a new thread with some excerpts to that article and the link.

[NeoConsSuck]

38. Excellent article Nordic..

more proof that after Kerry wins, we need to 'take the gloves off' with these neocon bastards.

[realcountrymusic]

18. Hail Mary Full of Grace

He's scared about Florida if this is his Sunday theme. Hard line Cubans are already with him. He's losing support even with Cuban Americans. That is the message.

RCM

[nolabels]

20. Voters promise to get rid of Bush

See ya, :hi:

[Jacobin]

21. Yeah. It was much better when the mafia owned and ran it

:eyes:

[BenDavid]

25. Excuse me, but on November 2nd

we are going to rid ourselves of the worst pResident we ever had. Kerry wins 277 electoral votes...maybe more but one thing is certain, KERRY WINS!!!! The last time I felt this good was November of 1992 and November 1996.... and as the Big Dawg said. " I might be called the come-back kid, but on November 2nd John Kerry will make the U S the comeback country" I agree!!!

[pinniped]

26. We all know who the real tyrant is.

Why does the piece of human garbage* have such a hard-on for Castro?

The piece of shit thinks he's gonna get Castro's gun but it's never gonna happen.

Castro needs to publicly ridicule the piece of shit some more.

[madmax]

27. Kerry is going to releave bush of his job

because it's such hard werk, it's haaarrrd, it's harrrrd werk. Piss off bushie.

[fortyfeetunder]

29. Can't find OBL, but yeah, Castro

*'s failure to find OBL "dead or alive" must make him feel politically impotent. So to appease the Cuban refugees in USA, he's going to go after Castro? What lie will he fabricate to invade Cuba? Did the explosives from Al Qaqaa show up in Havana?

I am waiting eagerly for the justification, I mean lie.

[deadparrot]

30. What freedoms, George?

You gonna invade Cuba, too? Are our soldiers gonna have as much fun there as they're having in Iraq and Afghanistan? Go send your own goddamn kids to overthrow Castro.

What a worthless piece of shit.

[StupidFOX]

31. Bush would take credit if Castro had a heart attack...

or fell again :crazy:

[Born Free]

32. There he goes again....

One of these days the bush cowardisn't going to be able to hide behind the most powerful military in the world and people will see how much of a tough talking coward he is

[Democat]

33. What did he do for the last four years?

If only Bush gets elected, then he'll do something. Sure! Maybe that would have worked in 2000, but who would believe that bullshit now?

[ngant17]

35. invade Cuba = invade Latin America

So when Cuban-Americans see TV and watch their relatives being gunned down on the streets of Havana by US troops, will they still cheer Bush on?

The USA will collapse militarily, economically and politically in a very short time after the first gringo troops storm the Malecon. The world won't tolerate it, especially Latin America, which will go up in flames. Look how much a fight a handful of Cuban engineers put up against the Marines in Grenada. The Cubans also turned the tide against South African aparteid troops in the decisive April 1988 battle of Cuito Cuanavale, Angola. Castro would be prepared to die heroically, with assault rifle in hand, like Pres. Allende did on Sept. 11, 1973.

Modern USA under Bush reminds me of a Czarist Russian bureaucracy right out of Gogol’s “THE INSPECTOR GENERAL”, it has all the same bureaucracy and corruption as in Czarist Russia, the US with Bush is becoming a mirror-image the Gogol’s depiction. Imperialist to the
core. Very rotten.

Caesar, Czar, Kaiser. The names have changed a little from language to language, as those imperial regimes migrated to the north and the west. In America, the name appears to have mutated considerably and was shortened into “CEO”, or chief executive officer, the commander-
in-chief. CEO Bush, Czar Bush, Kaiser Bush. It’s all the same thing.

[TheDonkey]

34. too bad he hasn't done a damned thing about cuba

[amandabeech]

36. If we invaded Cuba in lieu of Iran,

we can just kiss all that Venezuelan crude good-bye. The Venezuelans send us more black goo than the Saudis these days.

And you have to wonder whether the Mexicans and Canadians might start having "technical" problems with their oil and gas (for the Canadians) shipping facilities and pipelines.

[hangemhigh]

37. Freedom's on the march again!!!! n/t

[George_S]

40. Oops, missed again. Sorry Mexico!

They play hand grenades and horse shoes in Texas.

[cosmicone]

41. Well he only has till January 20th but

most of that time will be spent on drafting pardon lists :evilgrin:

[Malva Zebrina]

42. Ayuh--cause he the "war president"

doncha know.

[Judi Lynn]

43. Tough gibberish from our chimp.even as he spoke, Cuba bought food

from U.S. producers:

Cuba readies to sign more food deals
October 31, 2004


Just days before an American presidential election whose outcome could alter US-Cuba relations, communist officials were designing deals to buy $US150 million ($A201.48 million) more in corn, wheat, cattle and other American farm products at a trade fair opening Monday.
Agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland of Illinois, Tyson Foods of Arkansas, Splash Tropical Drinks of Florida, Marsh Supermarkets of Indiana and White Rose Foods of New Jersey were among 125 American companies participating in the weeklong International Fair of Havana.

"This is happening at a crucial moment, during elections in the United States," Pedro Alvarez, chairman of the Cuban food import company Alimport said Saturday after inspecting stands at the exposition centre where the Americans will display food samples.

"Many companies and their people will come after the elections," so they don't miss the chance to vote Tuesday, Alvarez said.

Alvarez declined to talk about the US presidential candidates or express a preference.

Democratic contender John Kerry has said he would maintain more than four decades of trade sanctions against Cuba if elected president. But many on the island believe any change to reverse the US government's increasingly tough policies on Cuba would be more likely with Kerry in the White House.
(snip/...)

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/31/1099220013872.html

[Mika]

44. CASH, I might add

Cuba pays cash. Not credit.

-

... among 125 American companies participating in the weeklong International Fair of Havana.

125 and more every week.




Hi JudiLyn :hi:

[Judi Lynn]

46. Hi, there, Mika! Do you remember when Cuba was only beginning

to arrange the limited trade right after the hurricane wiped out their food supplies? The Cuban American National Foundation in Miami started planting articles in papers all over the world that Cuba couldn't pay its debts, and that Cuba was debt ridden and impoverished, etc.

They tried every way possible to get American producers to back away from Cuba and they refused. They've been happy as clams doing business for these 4 years now.

Interesting how devious those rightwingnuts are. They will literally stop at nothing. They see every politician as a possible weapon against Cuba, and a tool for themselves.

[Iceburg]

45. Bush is losing in the Hispanic Newspaper Endorsements

Kerry received endorsements from 9 hispanic papers this week
StateProv Newspaper
MN Gente de Minnesota (Sp)
MN Lazos Hispanos (Sp)
PA Al Dia (Sp)
NV El Mundo (Sp)
NM Imagen (Sp)
IL Chicago El Dia (Sp)
IL Chicago La Raza (Sp)
NY El Diario La Prensa (Sp)
MA Siglo 21 (Sp)

Adios Bush!!

[Judi Lynn]

47. Cool, Iceburg! Bush, vaya con Cheney! n/t

[Iceburg]

49. el ir que va ido ...

Republican Editors Can't Stand By their Man in 2004

Since 1940 when industry trade magazine Editor & Publisher began tracking newspapers during presidential elections, only two Democratic candidates -- Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Bill Clinton in 1992 -- have ever won more endorsements than their Republican opponent.

In 2000, Bush picked up nearly 100 more daily endorsements than Gore


In 2004, with 422 newspapers having reported, Kerry has nearly doubled Bush in both endorsements and total circulation
Kerry - 247 endorsements - 24.3 Million total circulation
Bush - 159 endorsements - 12.4 Million total circulation

2004 -- 63 Republican Editors/Papers Who Endorsed Bush in 2000 Leave the Ship

State Newspapers Circulation
-- American Conservative ( 12,600 ) *
CA Contra Costa Times ( 186,335 )
CA Los Angeles Daily News ( 178,360 )
CA Lodi News-Sentinel ( 17,362 ) *
CA Oakland Tribune ( 67,807 )
CA Ventura County Star ( 99,425 )
CA Santa Cruz Sentinel ( 26,063 )
CO Greeley Tribune ( 25,172 )
CO Boulder Daily Camera ( 33,031 )
CT Stamford Advocate ( 38,558 )
CT New London Day ( 41,113 )
CT Bridgeport Connecticut Post ( 76,133 )
FL Tampa Tribune ( 224,220 ) *
FL Orlando Sentinel ( 257,191 )
FL Bradenton Herald ( 52,163 )
FL Jupiter Tribune ( NA ) *
FL Stuart News ( 40,960 ) *
IA Davenport Quad City Times ( 53,872 )
IA Des Moines Register ( 152,885 )
IA Iowa City Press Citizen ( 14,803 )
ID Idaho Statesman ( 64,934 )
IL Chicago Sun-Times ( 486,936 )
IL Edwardsville Intelligencer ( 5,212 )
IL Peoria Journal Star ( 68,690 )
IL Arlington Heights Daily Herald ( 150,364 )
IL Rockford Register-Star ( 66,249 )
KY Messenger-Inquirer ( 28,586 )
KY Louisville Courier Journal ( 213,176 )
LA New Orleans Times Picayune ( 253,610 ) *
MA Worchester Telegram & Gazette ( 102,592 )
ME Bangor Daily News ( 63,611 )
MI Detroit News ( 227,392 ) *
MI Petoskey News-Review ( 11,225 )
MI Flint Journal ( 84,897 )
MI Muskegon Chronicle ( 46,769 )
MO Columbia Daily Tribune ( 18,411 )
MT Billings Gazette ( 46,980 )
NC Winston-Salem Journal ( 85,266 ) *
NJ Camden Courier-Post ( 79,400 )
NM Albuquerque Tribune ( 14,373 )
NY White Plains Journal-News ( 145,073 )
NY Elmira Star-Gazette ( 28,834 )
OH Cleveland Plain Dealer ( 365,288 ) *
OR Oregonian (Portland) ( 342,040 )
PA Allentown Morning-Call ( 131,110 )
PA Scranton Times ( 61,316 ) *
PA Uniontown Herald Standard ( 28,453 )
PA Harrisburg Patriot-News ( 101,322 ) *
TN Memphis Commercial Appeal ( 189,961 )
TX Corpus Christi Caller-Times ( 60,537 )
TX Wichita Falls Times Record News ( 32,005 ) *
TX Crawford Lone Star Iconoclast ( 500 )
TX Abilene Reporter-News ( 33,250 ) *
TX Bryan College Station Eagle ( NA ) *
VA Clinch Valley Times ( 2,100 ) *
WA Bremerton Sun ( 30,370 )
WA Seattle Times ( 237,303 )
WA Grand Coulee Star ( 3,577 )
WA Walla Walla Union Bulletin ( 14,409 )
WA Kennewick Tri-City Herald ( 41,246 )
WI Marinette EagleHerald ( 10,153 ) *
WI La Crosse Tribune ( 34,283 )
WI Wausau Daily Herald ( 22,840 )
Total Defections in Circulation ( 5,632,696 )

* No endorsement this year

[Malebolgia]

51. Another war....

If, God forbid, Bush gets elected, we're going to be in many more wars. :(

[quaker bill]

53. I also hear he has the terrorists on the run..

However, reviewing the tapes, it appears that they were just running to the unsecured weapons dumps so they could reload.

[pinniped]

55. The same monkeyass who proclaimed a few months ago...

that he wanted to be a "Peace Presidung".

Them words sure don't sound peaceful to me tough guy.

Maybe Castro will challenge the chickenhawk to a duel like Sadaam did. But it would matter anyways because monkeyass chickened out last time around.

[vetwife]

57. Read the sig line

[agincourt]

58. Gee whiz ,silly me,

And to think I would have recommended getting rid of mass murderer OBL before we even thought of a geriatric Caribbean socialist leader. Silly, silly me, I guess I don't have the well oiled brain of a neo-con.

[DeadManInc]

60. Castro

Bush knows he has a broken knee and can't run away like bin laden did.

[The_Casual_Observer]

61. They want a new place to build casinos and grow sugar cane.

This has been going on for 45 years, they won't let it go.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

62. I guess that was something ELSE that Daddy didn't finish...

...does El Chimpo have ANY original thoughts?

Or does he have ANY thoughts at all??

[goforit]

64. Bush's claim to fame .......Regime changer of the 3rd world!!!

[HeeBGBz]

65. Bush's new campaign slogan for aging fractured Castro

"You can hide, but you just can't run."

[Sequoia]

66. Hello, YOU are the tyrant pal

whatcha gonna do, carpet bomb the place freak? We are sick of you attacking other countries so scram.

[calimary]

67. Here we go again... any WMDs in those cigars or something?

Let's see... first it's Saddam. Now Castro. The schmuck still needs to try to scare us with some whiskered boogey-man.

C'MON TUESDAY!!!

[GoldenOldie]

68. Tyrant cleansing begins at home

[calimary]

69. And hopefully concludes by tomorrow night.

[wrate]

70. * will probably rid Cuba of Cubans while at it. Much like he is doing in

Iraq.

[symphony]

71. since when has * began to care about minority issues?

Phony, phony, phony!

[foreigncorrespondent]

72. Yeah!!!!

And I strongly believe that the people of America should be free of that evil tyrant George W. Bush*.

[Spirochete]

73. Is he going to run against Castro

after he loses the election here? hehe