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Amen

Amen, brother. Amen.

It is probably too late to hang almost/already dead Kastro.
But not too late for Raul.
I have spoken to so many Cubans in Cuba in the last month, in Havana and in the campo.
We always think that Cubans are resigned to their fate. But one drop too much and the cup runneth over.
Don't be fooled by the relative calm. The volcano is active. Very active.

Amen, George, let this be the year, finally.

This is all very interesting. If indeed castro is on ice or getting there would announcing his death on Jan 1 or 2nd be best? They would immortalize him by announcing it in the 1st yet send a message that the revolution started and ended on the 1st. If he is dead and they announce it on the second they save face.I am not convinced that he is alive. If he were indeed "recovering" would he not have read his 3 paragraph letter to the people over the phone? The letter was extremely short to have to have been read bu another. This has my curiosity piqued.

Amen, George.

All you can hope for is a real revolution
in Cuba when the tyrant dies. But all you
read in the MSM is how beloved old Fidel.
It would be nice to see those bastards
with egg on their commie faces.

Amen. The national nightnmere is coming to an end. Someday Cubans will look back on this tragedy with sadness and revulsion, with a resolve to never let this happen again.

Cuba's evolution will resume when the dictatorship is over AND when clear thinking people in our country are able to push forward without the idiocies babbled by so called conservatives and liberals in the United States of America. This is a great country, but Cuba is a different country and it needs freedom, democracy, and sovereignty, not slogans and groupthink from rightwingers and leftwingers here or anywhere else. Viva Cuba Libre de verdad!

So far it seems every dictator in the world seems realy upset by Saddams execution... One could speculate why (;>)

Is is Holiness the Pope a dictator?

"Don't be fooled by the relative calm. The volcano is active. Very active."

I hope you are right. It would not be the first time that a dictatorship or totalitarian society seemed stable when it was nearing its end. But I have also heard many critics of such regimes sound very positive only to see these nations continue to persist. It is strange how stable a totalitarian regime can remain for so long. There needs to be some research done into exactly what factors are needed to undermine the stability which fear provides.

Mammey: The Pope is not a dictator (since anyone can leave the Vatican and Roman Catholicism) but he is no Democrat, and has somewhat of a history of opposing things which promote justice or liberty over "peace".

Mamey, Holy Mother Church puts its opinion out so all could hear: they were against the Iraq war, they are against anything Israel does in its own defense, and Saddam's execution. But they sure were in favor of shuttling known pedophiles to various dioceses so they could continue their evil, all in the name of compassion. Positions like these make me glad I am no longer a practicing Catholic that has to have that kind of compassion.

George- Amen on that last comment. No pun intended.

Chuck, Ceaucescu was still in TOTAL charge of the country hours before he died. A small miscalculation lead to his downfall, a minute he lost control.

On the execution of Saddam Hussein. While one very rationally can decry the death penalty to select the execution of a tyrant who killed over 300,000 of his own people for specially attention in this regard is absurd. Only too often the authors of protests over Saddam’s execution are also executioners. In this one notes some of the strongest protests come from senior Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Russian government officials who also have with bloody hands. Thus, the former KGB official Vladimir Putin apparently believes that it is still ok to kill defecting spies, but not deposed murderous leaders. Daniel Ortega who massacred Misquito Indians called Saddam Hussein’s execution “a brutal crime and abuse of the sovereignty of the Iraqi people.� The Cuban government, now headed by Raul Castro who personally directed the execution of at least as many as 70 in a single event on a single day, called the execution of Saddam Hussein an "illegal" act. It appears that what these officials object to is the execution of national leaders, no matter how murderous they have been. In doing so these particular leaders are setting themselves above the rest of humanity, declaring they have the right to kill, but that nobody has the right to execute them for it. It is difficult to prove motive, however in these cases one might be tempted to argue that these statements by these particular leaders are based on fear for their own skins….

As if half a century of suffering weren't enough, we still have to put up with flaming assholes like the mayor of London and his ludicrous plan to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the tragedy, not to mention countless opportunists, hypocrites and assorted cretins. Sometimes, it's very hard to believe in humanity. Cuba and her people have been screwed--up, down and sideways, over and over and over. One hell of a lot of people owe us BIG time, and we should never forget that or let them forget it. It may not be possible to make them pay, which of course they have no intention of doing, but at the very least we can call them on it in no uncertain terms. So many, so very many backstabbers!

Mentiroso, George! You're not a day over 40!

Bless you, Mora. Bless you.

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