Castro's sudden re-emergence after four years in seclusion for health reasons has raised questions about his intentions, but his message has been consistent -- a devastating war is at hand if the United States, in alliance with Israel, tries to enforce international sanctions against Iran for its nuclear activities.
He also has predicted the United States will attack North Korea.
"The United States finds itself now in an unsolvable dilemma (in the Middle East). It cannot get out, nor can it stay," Castro told 115 ambassadors, who listened with rapt attention.
"It won't get out of that situation through diplomacy, but through the power of its arms," he said, pointing his finger in the air and pontificating at length as in the old days.
Castro, 83, spoke for more than an hour as he sat in front of the ambassadors. He looked fit, relaxed and fully in charge as he took questions and read numerous news reports to back up his position.
Posted 7/29/2010 8:05 am
Despite crippling economic sanctions he actually provided a surprisingly good standard of living for his people. Low crime and decent health care are two things that Cubans have managed that Americans could not.
The more time goes by, the more that the US seems to be the rogue terror state
Posted 7/29/2010 8:08 am Cuba is an impoverished dump of epic proportions. He is a tyrant of the worst kind. No surprise that the nazi lovers like kingmambo like him. After all he loves the nazis and imperial Japan.
nobody took him too seriously back in the day, either -- at least not the soviets. i read kruschev's biography a few years back, and in it, one of his deputies commented on castro's hysterical, tear-filled temper tantrums in front of high-ranking red army personnel when the missile crisis was resolved peacefully. when the two leaders met for the first time, kruschev offered his hand, and rather than shake it, castro bowed and kissed his ring like a fucking jesuit meeting the pope. that dude's as far from alpha as it gets.
Liberal zeitgeist leader Michael Moore thinks all Americans should move to Cuba to receive health care. Dont forget all of the Obama voters and the Che Guevara T Shirts they bought at Hot Topic.
Doesnt change the fact that he is absolutely right about Americas motivations (Israel sockpuppet) in explaining the difference in their policies towards Iran/Iraq and North Korea.
North Korea is a confirmed nuclear power who is openly testing delivery systems capable of hitting the US. America hasnt done shit to them.
On the other hand Iran, like Iraq before them, will probably be attacked first on the mere premise of WMDs. This will probably kick off a shitstorm that will end with war with Pakistan and then, perhaps, North Korea.
so you think the u.s. can or should treat an isolated military state and confirmed nuclear power (north korea) the same way it treats a massive, relatively open and wannabe nuclear power like iran? that's silly, dude. despite what most people think, the north korean nuclear program isn't new. they've been enriching uranium since the '60s, back when pyongyang was still sheltering beneath moscow's umbrella. there is absolutely nothing the u.s. could have done to prevent north korea from developing its own nukes. they've had the technology and the resources to produce such things since long before you or i were born.
there's no comparing the two. iran can be stopped (whether or not i think it should be stopped is another matter), but nobody -- least of all the americans -- could have prevented the north koreans from going dayglo. apples and oranges.
LOL. So the US should attack Iran for <MAYBE> having nukes but North Korea, who not only has nukes and openly talks of turning America into a "Sea of Fire", but is also launching ICBMs into the Pacific, should be left alone?
Even if Iran <DID> develop nukes they couldnt hit the US because they dont have any delivery systems. So who COULD they hit? You got it...Israel. Thats the difference.
yup. as well as families who sold their sons and daughters to brothels that cater to european and canadian tourists. or people getting money from their relatives in florida.
and then they can finally access the worl-- i mean, cuban wide web!
just fucking retarded. and there are people who still sympathize with castro and his little cabal.
Posted 7/29/2010 9:30 am : Edited 7/29/2010 9:35 am
the sad thing is, there's an extended version of that video out there (can't find it at the moment), and it turns out that the woman they interviewed actually bought the computer for her young daughter, who is so excited by the prospect of going online and studying for a career in i.t. that she can hardly contain herself. then you see them taking it out of the box, and you realize that the cuban government is basically just bluehippo.com dressed in olive drab fatigues: charging a bunch of impoverished huckleberries an arm and a leg for a $200 emachine pc loaded with bootleg software, and a round-trip ticket to whatever fucked-up "web sites" the government cogs have developed for your browsing pleasure. and that's it. a damned shame all around.
Yeah it's pretty funny to see Canadian labour union and NDP types taking their inexpensive holidays in Cuba and being smug about it. It's going to be dirt cheap if the locals are poorer than our beggars sitting in front of the liquor store...
"You should go, you can fuck any woman you want, even schoolgirls in their uniforms standing at a bus stop!"
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Just a little factual correction - the norks have never enriched uranium - they didn't need to since their reactor was a gas/graphite design (based on the old British magnox reactors) that ran off fuel with natural isotope ratios.
Their bomb was presumably made from Pu extracted from the burnt up fuel - and this can be done by entirely chemical methods (probably using the PUREX process or some variant of it).
Of course, this means they have to make their bombs using Pu instead of HEU, which is much harder (and probably why their test was a fizzle).
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea apparently began pursuing a uranium enrichment program in 1996 at the latest, the South Korean foreign minister said Wednesday, bolstering fears that the North’s second route to building a nuclear bomb could be well on its way..
