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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: marcos who wrote (7850)6/28/2000 5:14:00 PM
From: Machaon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 9127
 
<< ... and it was only the latest in a long sick history of cruel US manipulation of the peoples to its south. >>

Nonsense. If it weren't for U.S. influence, assistance and aid to South and Central America countries, over the decades, those countries would've been a lot worse today. God bless the U.S.!

<< ... he has stood up to the eight thousand pound gorilla to his north ... >>

What total nonsense! What has his people gained from Castro's ignorance and arrogance against America? If Castro had any brains (I mean "working" brains), he would have kept his independence and kept a friendly relationship with the U.S. Cuba would've been a paradise, and it's people would have been much better off.

Instead, Castro chose to become a ruthless dictator and steal from his people. Castro is a blood sucker. He "stood up" to the U.S.? What garbage! All he did was isolate his nation and murder his own people.

<< ... but for one thing i respect him >>

You can respect Castro, or you can respect Charles Manson, or you can respect Stalin, or you can respect Neville Chamberland, if you want to. But, you won't get any medals from me for doing so.





To: marcos who wrote (7850)6/28/2000 5:15:00 PM
From: nealm  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9127
 
Reagan held the line against the communists. I consider him one of our best presidents because of it. If people got brutalized in the process then so be it. The future will tell if the ends were worth the means.

Castro is the true gangster here. He's the one that "stood up" to America by bending down before communism. His biggest problem now seems to be keeping his people from joining those people in Miami that you characterize as "mafia".