In 1989, Castro finally admitted, after decades of denial, that high-ranking members of his own govt. were involved in the drug traffic. Of course, he knew nuttin' about it, honest!
When did the US ever murder "millions of people?" If Stalin killed more people than Hitler, and Mao killed more people than Hitler and Stalin put together(if only because there are more Chinese, than who is the real villain but socialism(Hitler, by the way, was a socialist).
The Soviets have trained and armed genocidal regimes in Africa(Ethiopia, Angola, Uganda, Somalia, Ghana, Guinea, Libya, etc.); is SE Asia(Vietnam, Laos, China, Afghanistan), Latin America(Cuba, Nicaragua), and in Europe(Nazi Germany). China has practiced genocide in Tibet, against its Uighur citizens, and trained and armed a genocidal govt. in Cambodia.
The use of atomic bombs in Japan actually saved human lives. If the bombs hadn't been dropped, Japan would never have surrendered.In that case, we would have had to invade Japan, the Japanese would've fought to the very last man like in Guadalcanal, a lot more American, British, and Aussie lives would've been lost, and Japan would not be the nation it is today. Neither would South Korea, which once belonged to Japan.
Had it not been for the atomic bomb, the US and the USSR would've probably fought a conventional war, instead of a relatively peaceful Cold War. More lives saved by Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Israel is a democratic nation, North Korea and Iran are dictatorships. That makes all the difference in the world. Democracies never start wars, only dictatorships do.
You should get down on your knees and thank your Allah or whoever it is you worship for the US and Israel. If it weren't for them, you would not have an Internet to write your hate-filled screeds on. For that matter, you probably wqouldn't be alive today, either. Be grateful.
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kobaincito
17 years ago
Funny, i should thank them for the internet. And for the thousands of indigenous people they killed in Nicaragua too.
But one thing strikes me as revealing of your character. You justify the murder of 150000 civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki because it saved the life of US and British soldier (with the added bonus of keeping the soviets out of the pacific theater).. admit it, US history simply has better PR. You guys are imperialists who kill any one who thinks differently. You always like to forget about the indian genocide, and stealing half of mexico, and murdering 4 million indochinese and conducting a war on the third world under the veneer of the cold war. Nothing more savage than a US marine, nothing more frequently seen in this past century than those vampires wantonly killing anyone they choose to be a tyrant. And so today, you say, but they only killed tyrants... why don't you start with the tyrants at home and stay out of our countries... out of our oil reserves... out of our banana fields. Keep your internet and your fries... we are happy healthy people in the third world, just hungry people who want to never see a marine or a whopper again in our lives. So, why dont you do your civic duty and put a leash on that rabid dog that is your army, and buckle down that vampire club you call corporations, and practice neoliberalism rather than imporsing it on third world countries... please keep you army of bloodthirsty simians with their hightech individual blitzkrieg equipment from touching one more arab girl, one more indian girl, one more third worlder. We might just react next time, and we will take back all that was taken away from us, all the way to the Mississippi.
PEACE, really, give us peace.
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AuroraForce
16 years ago
Kobaincito,
Bravo, you speak the truth! My fellow Americans are indeed naive!
"My daddy spanked my bare bottom. Now he's gone. Will you take his place?"
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joeparkson
15 years ago
Pre-Castro Cuba had one of the highest standards of living in the Western Hemisphere & one of the lowest infant death rates. There was freedom of the press and no one was risking drowning or getting eaten by sharks trying to leave Cuba.
The reason the US has suspended trade with Cuba was because Castro confiscated all US owned property on Cuban soil. This happened well before the Cuban Missle Crisis and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. In fact, President Eisenhower declined Dictator Batista's requests for military aid, thus aiding Castro. When Castro took power on New Year's day 1959, he was treated like a hero in the US media.
Castro even visited the US to welcoming crowds. This was before he declared that he was now and always had been a Marxist-Leninist.
It was Castro who initiated the bad blood between Cuba and the USA. Why did he do this? Because Castro had always dreamed of becoming the most influential figure in Latin America, not just Cuba. To do this he needed an enemy and the US, with it's history of interfering in various Latin American countries, fit the bill.
Since Castro has been in power, there has been no freedom of expression or media. No freedom of travel. No free elections. None of these things are caused by the US embargo.
By the way, the rest of the world is free to trade with Cuba.
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