Bardach is a tool. A thinner, female version of a Jim Defeedme.

Ann Louise Bardach is the female version of Jim Defede; they have no credibility with anyone who is truly informed, but they do a lot of damage to the cause of a Free Cuba with the garbage they print!

Incredible how the left recycles stories to support their agenda, yet ignore even greater injustices committed by the regime.

Prettier too.

It's true she doesn't identify who "Coll's enemies" are and takes cheap shots at Ros Lethinen and Diaz Balart who have no involvement in her story whatsoever. That is biased and reprehensible. She should have made the effort to find out who was behind the calls.

She has published many other articles where she talks about the dissidents in Cuba and specifically the crackdown on the 75. FSU's website (www.ruleoflawandcuba.fsu.edu) where there is a lot of information about dissidents and human rights violations in Cuba, has one. I recommend that site by the way, very thorough. They even have a video of the model of Biscet's cell, constructed by James Canson.

At the same time, I didn't know about Coll's case and if the story is true, it's very sad. Here's someone whose life is being destroyed because of his political beliefs, which is wrong in Cuba and wrong here.

g- Your comments consistently begin with an affirmation of Babalu’s viewpoint of the post you’re commenting on, followed by statements in support of a pro-castro position. This is classic communist/leftist tactics in disseminating information. I'd like to know if you have a personal viewpoint you'd like to share or like all communists, are you only able to repeat the party line.

Well, I wanted to oust Gansibele at the tourism post, but what the hell, let's do it here. He is no more than one of those homosexual jineteras the lefties love so much. Educated and well read. And pretty in drag! THAT'S WHY HE KNOWS SO MUCH ABOUT SEX AND TOURISM, what's on demand and what's hot!
Typical commie whore.

Kathleen, what's the pro-castro position I'm supporting in my post? And what information I'm diseminating? Quote from my post, no generalities please.

If you'd like to know my viewpoints, all you have to do is read my posts. I suspect no matter what I say, it'll sound like "party line" to you.

CB, I'm starting to worry about you. First you had that fantasy about fighting me wearing a tutu. Now you picture me as a jinetera in drag. You may want to have those tendencies looked at before it's too late. Just saying.

Don't worry about me, worry about yourself.
I just ridicule and mock you at every occassion, for that you're a pitiful, sad, and lowly commie bitch.

g- more of the same, you speak in generalities and then answer the question with a question, another common commie tactic, piling on lots of layers to hide the truth. One thing you're right about, I think you're a leftist commie bloody handed sob and no amount of bs coming from you will change that.

In other words, you throw accusations you can't back up and you ask questions whithout being interested in the answer. Nice. And you were saying about bs?

You're the one who never answers a question, just because you use a lot of words, doesn’t mean you’re saying anything. However, here you go:

In the above post, and you use the same tactic in almost all your comments.

Keep in mind that I'm not fooled by the fact that you do not come out and say I'm pro-castro. Did you vote for John Kerry?

In the first paragraph your affirmation, It’s true she …....etc. You affirm the Babalu stance.

Followed by a gush on the many articles where she talks about the dissidents.
You disseminate the political viewpoint here by making this persons point of view appear to be the exact opposite of what in fact the article we're talking about exposes it to be.

This would compare to amnesty international declaring they're anti castro because they've listed some human rights violations, never mind their prolonged silence on the 46 years of murders, exile, hunger, terrorist activities and so forth.

First, you all need to calm down please. Enough with the ad hominem attacks.

And the first one to point a finger gets banned.

Gansibele,

Do you live in lala land?

Here's someone whose life is being destroyed because of his political beliefs, which is wrong in Cuba and wrong here.

Coll is a career politician, therefore schooled in diplomacy and tact, and he should have known better. Politics is all about discrediting the enemy, as your democratic party with its MSM allies has been doing ad nauseum with the Valerie Plame/Karl Rove non-story.

that Coll is getting his lfe screwed because he screwed up? He knows perfectly well how to play the game. he played, he lost. End of story.

In innocence, I bought and read Bardach's book. I thought it sucked. I put the damn thing down and went out and bought a different book.

Please, screwing an old girlfriend and covering it up and ousting an undercover CIA agent are not the same thing, ethically, morally or legally.

Maybe I live in lalaland but I don't like smear politics. I'm fine with him losing his security clearance and his government job. Trying to get him fired from the Naval College and the History Channel sounds petty and vindictive to me.

Yes I voted for Kerry. If voting for Kerry is being pro-Castro, 49% of this country is pro-Castro.

g- if voting for Kerry is being pro-castro, 49% of this country is pro-castro. Finally, you wrote something factual and true.

You mean the same Valerie Plame that came out in Vanity Fair with her husband? The same one that everyone already KNEW she was a CIA agent? Puulleze, man. that ship has already sailed, and there's lots of people that missed that boat.

This affair, like the one in this article, only goes to prove how incredibly desperate certain political parties and their media backers are. How incredibly hysterically ridiculous.

As for Coll, what can I say. When you play with fire, sometimes you get burned. I have absolutely no sympathy for him whatsoever. With is politcal pedigree and experience he should have known better.

He played, he lost. End of story.

My condolences for your having voted for Kerry. I hope you took the bumper stickers off your car already. Maybe next time the democratic party will actually put forth a viable candidate.

Did you know Kerry served in Vietnam?

hehehehe

What can I say?
At least now we have a confession: a Kerry voter was here tagging this blog with procagastrist views. Well, a few of us knew already. What a day.

Is this the same John Kerry* who always had a plan but never told us what the plan was? The same guy who planned his "war wounds" in Vietnam so he could get a medal and jum-start his political career? The same guy who was friends with Jane Fonda and who supported the Sandinistas? The same guy who never met a defense appropriations bill he liked? That guy? Wow. Nice choice. He lost, you know.

(*The haughty French-looking Senator from Massachusetts who by the way served in Vietnam and who by the way got lower grades than Dubya.)

Yes, that same Valerie Plame that was in Vanity Fair (January 2004), posing with her husband in a Jag convertible in front of the White House AFTER Karl Rove broke the law by identifying her to three journalists (Novak's column was October 2003). Is that the defense? If it's so cut and dried or "incredibly hysterically ridiculous", why are Rove and the White House sweating bullets?

Rove sweating bullets?

Dude, you need to lay off the Kool-Aid.

This is the most utterly ABSURD smoke screen bullshit from the democratic party to date. Of course, it's to be expected seeing as you have no platform and no real issues to call your own.

I cant wait for this all to be over. We'll see who comes out with egg on the old face.

I'm gonna keep my comments on Alberto Coll. If you are an expert on a specific country (that is actually listed as an enemy of your own country) and you have an opinion that differs with that of the current administration's policies then you should be careful not hide anything about your dealing in/with said country.

A guy as "smart" as Coll should know that he has to avoid even the appearance of inpropriety. Nobody in the Miami "Mafia" told him to go to Cuba. We don't know all the facts in this case but his rationale seems pretty weak to me. 170+ countries he could have gone to in order to mend his wounded heart and he chose the one that he is advocating a softer policy on.

I'm not saying the guy is a spy, but Ana Belen Montes certainly was and from what I have heard Coll was quick to echo her sentiments as far as the "non-danger" Cuba poses to the US.

Like it or not, Belen Montes' case was a wake up call. We aren't paranoid when it's true that the highest levels of the Pentagon's civilian ranks had been penetrated by a Castroite agent. This should have served as another was warning to Mr. Coll. I'm sorry he lost his daughter, but this guy made his own bed with regards to his career.

And the reporting in the article is extremely shoddy. She wants to believe her conspiracy theory without a single attributable quote and forget the few facts we do have.

Typical MSM BS.

GANSIBELE
I THINK YOU EITHER NEED TO SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT!! CB, KATHELEEN AND THE REST OF THE BABALU BLOGGERS HAVE GOT YOUR NUMBER LOUD AND CLEAR, MAN YOU ARE WEARING PEOPLE THIN!
K: WELL SAID!!
GANSIBELE, FRANKLY I DON'T TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY,I ALREADY STATED TOO MUCH ENERGY IS WASTED ON YOUR COMMENTS WHICH ARE NOT REALLY COMMENTS, BUT DISTRACTIONS FROM WHAT THE POSTINGS ARE ALL ABOUT (CB FIGURED THAT OUT RATHER QUICKLY)
THE NEXT STOP ON THE BUS IS COMING UP SOON...
AMERICA IS WAKING UP TO THE TRICKS, LIES AND ATTACKS FROM THE LEFT, RED BABIES, YOU HAVE STRECHED THE PATIENCE OF THE PEOPLE TOO FAR, AND WE ARE SNAPPING!!

So... anything good cooking while I
was away , eh ?
Commie Fricasse?
Red pigeon a la Provence?
Asopa' 'e Three card Monty?
Chicharon de liberal democrat ?
Rat a la King?
Stuffed idiot Sicilian style?
Tinkerbel croquettes?
Boy, you no nonsense right wingers dont handle arrogant ultists full of smoke and mirrors kindly do ya?
Bwahahaha

KC... welcome back!! it has been interesting to say the least, so far, some of the topics have been hijacked by what I call the blah, blah, blah's at Babalu!! thank God for freedom of speech we are LIBRES to blah, blah, blah right back
:)

Asopa' 'e Three card Monty?

Dude, I so lost it with that one. You have a way with words, KC.

KC,that's quite a menu, ditto what Val said. Welcome back KC, you've been missed.

Ah, I just added a little Cuban accent to THAT particular recipe:
So let me ‘splain ... (LOOOSY!!! AM 'JOM")
It should have read “ASOPADO DE Three Card Monty.”
For Kathleen - ASOPADO is a Cuban/Spaniard dish where you throw anything you can find in the kitchen into a pot and BOIL the thing until it thickens to the consistency of light cement.
Like all the GREAT dishes of the world it is peasant food.
Three Card Monty is of course the popular "hand is quicker than the eye" game crooks play in the street of NYC where they "offer" you to pick the "Queen" out of a three card shuffle where you always swear you KNOW where the Queen is (well you do NOT know !) Of course the shuffling is so convoluted (sortta like Democretin's logic) than the saps who fall for that kind of slight of hands always loose.
In my circle we called Democrats’ bullshit "Three Card Monty Logic"
To wit:
“It all depends on what the meaning of the word “is” , is? ,, ( uh ? ‘scuse me?)
“Well I voted for it... But THEN I voted against it!”. Yeah and I want *YOU* with your well manicured finger on the BIG red button!
Sure, you lost at birth Herman Munster look alike MOFO piece of pimp poopoo

THANK GOD WE HAVE THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH SO WE CAN DISAGREE and I am able to push my crap down every idiot’s throat's so that I can - as SOON as they buy into my line of bullshit- take away EVERY liberty that afforded me the freedom to do so.
Let’s all now join hands and sing Le Internationale, while I go into everyone of your pockets, and steal everything you own.
"Simpletons of the WORLD; UNITE!"