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Fidel Castro Resigns
Smordnys s'regrepsA writes "Fidel Castro, the leader of the island nation of Cuba has declined the possibility of keeping his seat as President, after the February 24th National Assembly election. "I neither will aspire to nor will I accept — I repeat — I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief," Castro wrote almost 19 months after a severe illness caused him to hand power temporarily to his brother Raul."
From the article: "Eventually this transition ought to lead to free and fair elections. And I mean free, and I mean fair -- not these kinds of staged elections that the Castro brothers tried to foist off as being true democracy," Bush said, on the road in Rwanda. Anyone get the vibe that Bush is just jealous. I think the United States needs a few of these free and fair elections unlike the ones we've had for the last 8 years.
Bloke's been in charge for half a century and he's finally stepping down.
In other news Ronald Reagan can take credit for the fall of the USSR, not the internal politics which were bringing the Soviet Reign to an end.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Remind me how many US citizens are incarcerated in Guantanamo? Oh, thats right. There aren't any. As political prisoners are invariably citizens of the detaining state, that rules them out. Got any other terms you use that you don't know the meaning to that you would like clarified?
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
Liberty is expensive, but it's cheaper than ever.
you've got to love it when americans refer to their fellow men (who were lied into giving their lives up for a shady but very lucrative cause) in derogatory terms like these... let me guess... nobody from your family entered this super-deal "bargain"? Talking about dehumanizing culture of cannibals...
It seems though the "liberty warriors" that actually make it out of that hell you're cheerleading about are having some...consciousness problems... committing suicide in the end...let me guess..."liberty is cheap but hard"... just give me a moment to throw up in disgust knowing that I belong to the same species as you... carry on, nothing to see here...
Yam, yam, uga booga, yam, yam, yade, yade, uga booga, yam, yam, yade, yade
Please, drop the simplistic let-he-who-is-without-sin crap. The world is not black and white, and history is the story of thousands of years of lesser evils. There isn't a nation or a people on earth without blood so deep in the seams of their hands they can't tell it from their own. Grow some perspective and stop reading so much Chomsky.