Cuba Denounces US Double Standard on Terrorism

[Billy Burnett]

Cuba Denounces US Double Standard on Terrorism
http://www.periodico26.cu/english/coverage/jan2010/cuba-us051110.html

United Nations, May 12, (RHC-PL).- Cuba reiterated Tuesday that the unilateral making of lists by the US government accusing other countries of supposed support to terrorism is incompatible with the international right and the UN resolutions.

In that sense, Cuba demanded to be excluded from Washington s list, which Havana qualified of spurious since it constitutes an unfair, arbitrary and politically motivated action.

The position of the Caribbean country was exposed Tuesday by its permanent representative before the UN, Pedro Núñez Mosquera, when speaking during a session of the Security Council.

When maintaining Cuba in that list, the government of the United States denies the political rationality that proclaims openly and follows the mistaken steps of his predecessors, Nuñez sustained.

He added that the whole thing is political manipulations and flagrant lies against Cuba to try to justify the discredited, isolated and untenable politics of Washington against the island.

"It is not in Cuba, but in the US, where a terrorist mafia has organized terrorist acts unpunishedly financed and carried out against the Cuban nation," Núñez Mosquera underlined.

He remembered that in the last 51 years the US government has been involved in repeated terrorist actions against this country causing 3,478 dead, 2,099 disabled and material losses for more than 54 billion dollars.

He also denounced the US double standard that claims the right to certify the behavior of other nations regarding terrorism, while it does not judge and allows people responsible for those horrendous terrorist acts against Cuba to live in freedom.

In this respect, he mentioned the case of Luis Posada Carriles, well-known as the most connoted terrorist in the western hemisphere and the one on whom the US authorities are limited to a judicial process for smaller charges.

He asserted that the handling of that matter by Washington constitutes a clear and flagrant violation of resolutions of the UN Security Council, the General Assembly and of several international juridical instruments relative to the fight against terrorism.

The Cuban ambassador insisted on demanding the US judges to take Posada Carriles to a trial as a terrorist or return him to Venezuela, country that requested his extradition almost five years ago.

At the same time he demanded the US administration the liberation of five Cuban antiterrorist fighters maintained as political prisoners for more than 11 years in high security prisons.

He explained that those men only tried to obtain information on the terrorist groups located in Miami, in order to prevent their violent acts and save Cuban and North American citizens' lives.

It is in the US government's hands to stop using the topic of terrorism with political objectives and put an end to the unjust and groundless inclusion of Cuba in the list of countries that supposedly favor terrorism, Núñez remarked.

"Cuba condemns all the acts, methods and practices of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, everywhere, for whichever they are committed, against whoever that are committed against and whatever their motivations are," he concluded.

[Peace Patriot]

1. "the US double standard that claims the right to certify the behavior of other nations"!

That about says it, as to the utter hypocrisy of our government and its corporate/war profiteer puppetmasters!

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"He also denounced the US double standard that claims the right to certify the behavior of other nations regarding terrorism, while it does not judge and allows people responsible for those horrendous terrorist acts against Cuba to live in freedom."--from the OP

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That is what has struck me most, and what bothers me most about U.S. foreign policy--aside from the mass murder of a million innocent Iraqis to steal their oil, the torture of prisoners, the on-going deaths of civilians in Afghanistan and the murder of tens of thousands of innocent people in Colombia (a phenomenon now occurring in Honduras as well) to serve U.S. corporate/war profiteer interests. The EGREGIOUS HYPOCRISY--and the lies and propaganda--make democracy in the U.S. seem like a hopeless endeavor. Democracy HAS TO BE based on an informed populace, on good information, on open dialogue. The U.S. government and corpo-fascist press propaganda and disinformation techniques make democratic decision-making impossible. And this tyranny is reinforced, at the practical power level, with the complete loss of transparent vote counting in the U.S.--now controlled by ONE, far-rightwing corporation (ES&S, which just bought out Diebold and thus achieved an 80% monopoly over the U.S. voting machine 'market'), which uses 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code to tabulate our votes, with virtually no audit/recount controls.

The controlled press and the controlled voting machines reinforce each other--the one writing false, disinformationist narratives about our political life, the other putting Pukes and "Blue Dogs" in Congress (and elsewhere) to prevent reform, and holding the capability--the EASY capability--of putting anyone they want into the White House and into other positions (governors, state legislators).

Anyway, I think that this Cuban diplomat nailed it. Hypocrisy!

[protocol rv]

3. Huh, to steal their oil?

The US invasion had little to do with stealing their oil. The invasion was instigated by the Israel lobby. What the Bush administration wanted was a colony, and the value was having its people out of the struggle for Palestinian sovereignity, and a large territory where they could build bases and use as launching pads for further invasions. It was a plain imperialist power grab, and it was fueled for the most part by the Israel lobby. The "steal the oil" bit is a cover up used to hide the true reasons why the US is fighting in the Middle East and Central asia. It's not about hydrocarbons, it's about Israel and building an empire. Check who is behind the war, the William Kristols, the Max Boots, the WSJ, US News and World Report, Rupert Murdoch, all of them with deep ties to israel. Also, the Democrats in congress backed it too - because they're financed by the Israel lobby.

[Judi Lynn]

2. As subsuelo's recent post mentioned, Rep. Michael Honda, among others, also denounces the lie

naming Cuba as a country sponsoring terrorism:

The longer we keep Cuba listed as a state sponsor of terrorism, an allegation roundly criticized by diplomats, the more we risk the credibility of our national security regime and reputation in the region.

U.S. embargo against Cuba is imprudent (Rep. Michael Honda)
By Rep. Michael Honda (D-Calif.) - 05/04/10 10:26 AM ET
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/95861-us-embargo-against-cuba-is-imprudent-rep-michael-honda

Thank you for posting this statement, Billy Burnett. One day the whole country is going to know the TRUTH, no matter how hard the liars, spinners fight it.