This is Liberty?

Darg · 19 Feb 2008 at 13:39

Bush added, "The United States will help the people of Cuba realize the blessings of liberty."

The Bush administration has tightened the four-decades-old U.S. embargo on the island, increased Radio Marti news broadcasts into Cuba, curtailed visits home by Cuban-Americans and limited the amount of money Cuban-Americans can send to relatives.

sauce

I'm sorry but the irony of this necessitated a post.

gillywibble · 19 Feb 2008 at 13:40

Bush wouldn't know liberty if it bombed the **** out of his country.

~>Dg<~ · 19 Feb 2008 at 13:41

yes but getting them to admit they said it is even worse.

platypus · 19 Feb 2008 at 13:42

Condoleezza Rice chairs a 2005 meeting of the U.S. group working on plans for a post-Castro Cuba.

This kind of nonsense makes my blood boil.

The UN should be sanctioning America.

Gilly · 19 Feb 2008 at 13:42

I'm completely unsurprised by this. It was always going to happen.

jas72 · 19 Feb 2008 at 13:44

what was going to happen?

Rice discussing post castro cuba or bush tightening his embargo?

Gilly · 19 Feb 2008 at 13:46

Changes in US policy towards Cuba in a post-Castro administration.

platypus · 19 Feb 2008 at 13:46

America seizing an opportunity to expand its democratic empire.

badbob · 19 Feb 2008 at 13:47

Will the US eventually drop the embargo or continue until the country is run into the ground?

Gilly · 19 Feb 2008 at 13:48

badbob said:
Will the US eventually drop the embargo or continue until the country is run into the ground?

Given that the embargo is over 40 years old I can't see much changing to be honest.

Castro will still be involved and the Cuban foreign policy is hardly going to change overnight.

a1ex2001 · 19 Feb 2008 at 13:49

The Man said:
Changes in US policy towards Cuba in a post-Castro administration.

Depends on the administration, can't see them changing their stace much if his brother is in power!

I believe the Americans are still officially commited to returning the land in cuba to it's pre revolution owners and there decendants which seems to me to mean they will be diametrically oposed to any future government unless Cuba has a leader who wants to reduce the standard of living in the country to what it was 50 years ago.

Sankari · 19 Feb 2008 at 13:55

Darg said:
sauce

I'm sorry but the irony of this necessitated a post.

Bloody Yanks. Ignorant barbarians.

I wonder if they'll try assassinating Castro's replacement?

MookJong · 19 Feb 2008 at 13:56

A nice new market to flood....

Hitman_Leon · 19 Feb 2008 at 14:00

The oval office.

Ok guys lets make another unstable terrorist nation, or at least try our best we will tighten our grip until Cuba falls apart.

Cuba
Say nothing much, why?, they jut sit back and let the USA make its self worse, if it ever could but they have as much credibility in the international stage as smallpox.

Zefan · 19 Feb 2008 at 14:02

Remember kids, it's cool to hate America.

Sankari · 19 Feb 2008 at 14:07

Martha said:
Remember kids, it's fine to hate American foreign policy if you've actually studied 20th Century history and know something about the issues.

Fixed.

Hitman_Leon · 19 Feb 2008 at 14:13

Evangelion said:
Originally Posted by Martha
Remember kids, it's fine to hate American foreign policy if you've actually studied 20th Century history and know something about the issues.Fixed.

Cuba should have been left alone at the end of the cold war but the bay of pigs gave the USA a bloody nose it will not forget. If Castro pro governments continue in Cuba so will the US embargo and muscle flexing.

Sankari · 19 Feb 2008 at 14:18

HITMAN_LEON said:
Cuba should have been left alone at the end of the cold war but the bay of pigs gave the USA a bloody nose it will not forget. If Castro pro governments continue in Cuba so will the US embargo and muscle flexing.

Damn straight.

The US bears some responsibility for making Cuba what she is today - and that includes the Castro regime.

Zefan · 19 Feb 2008 at 14:19

Evangelion said:
Fixed.

Most haven't - they simply jump on the wagon

Not referring to anyone in here actually, just seems to be the norm with most "Omg look at what the US did" threads.

I agree though it is cause for a sigh or two.

Hitman_Leon · 19 Feb 2008 at 14:29

And no one said the Castro pro state is right it cannot be right but the USA prevents change by the embargo. If Cuba had no embargo it may grow with better economic and trade ties then change may follow as it has elsewhere. The USA makes the Castro pro state keep a firm grip on its people by making them feel like victims of the USA. The only way the USA could succeed is by a bloody coup or civil war when allowing the cuban people prosperity could lessen and even end the Castro pro grip with plain economics and no blood-loss.