October 29, 200421 yr I don't like Fidel either, but there's a way you do things...that makes a difference. But I really don't understand why America is rabidly anti-Fidel when they don't mind cozying up with Commie Chinese. I think we even trade with Vietnam, another Commie nation. Perhaps someone can tell me more about why Fidel only earns America's scorn. I think it's got more to do with local politics. That's because so many anti-Fidel Cubans have fled and settled in Florida that just to gain their votes in a political battleground State like FL, everyone talks trash about Fidel. that's just my guess...
October 29, 200421 yr Author Perhaps someone can tell me more about why Fidel only earns America's scorn. musiclover wtf is your name? i hate calling you by your screen name can you tell me why america gets the world's scorn? ahh having a strong nation nvm i got it now
October 29, 200421 yr remember in the 60s when cuba let the USSR put their missiles there so they could attack the US? probably still holding a grudge against him for that
October 29, 200421 yr Fidel Castro is in all honesty probably better for Cuba than whatever dictator the US would have installed had the Bay of Pigs fiasco not been such an unmitigated failure. The people of Cuba more than anything have been hurt by the US's economic sanctions (which have also been a complete failure: rather than unseat Fidel, they only spurred anti-American sentiment, and oh yeah, Fidel is still in power 50 years later). But that's a long-winded rant for another day. :P
October 29, 200421 yr can you tell me why america gets the world's scorn? ahh having a strong nation nvm i got it now ah okay, i won't bother then! and i dont think world hates america, as much as they hate Bush. People are far more loving of Americans and know the difference between the ruler and the ruled.
October 29, 200421 yr hahah...i like that Peed! and thanks, Ali, for that input. I had forgotten to include that in my thinking. Also perhaps, the fact that he is the one who kicked out America and made all American-owned businesses (they owned pretty much anything generating wealth in Cuba) into Cuban national business. America practically ruled Cuba like a colony from 1902 (after kicking out another colonizer, Spain, in the SPanish-American War) until Fidel brought Commie revolution in the 1950s... I bet if Fidel dies tomorrow and someone else takes over, America won't have quite as much grudge...Fidel just gives a personal sense of hurt to American presidents! lol Not to mention that he is like an eyesore, a Commie leader ruling over a land merely 80 miles away from American shore! lol
October 29, 200421 yr under Fidel, all Cubans are covered by a healthcare system that serves everyone equally well. Also, more Cubans are literate than Americans due to Cuba's excellent public school system. It's another matter that they are all poor and also can't protest against communism.
October 29, 200421 yr Yeah, it doesn't do a lot for our credibility that a communist leader is sitting right there on our doorstep mocking us. :lol: And I think the US not only ruled Cuba like a colony during the first half of the 20th centure... it literally WAS a US colony. As you mentioned, we got it from Spain in the Spanish-American war. Along with, I think, Puerto Rico and the Phillippines for some reason. :confused:
October 29, 200421 yr oh yeah...i forgot about PR and Phillipines... the world's strongest democracy ruled over Phillipines, too. Under the guise of fighting the Soviets (or for some other reason?), U.S. had thousands of troops stationed in Phillipines up until 1993...Clinton brought them home. And we kicked around Phillipine leaders as and when they didn't behave like we wanted them to behave...
October 29, 200421 yr Yeah, the Filipinos aren't alone in the "puppet leaders installed by Americans" category... (see Chile, Iran, Brazil, Nicaragua, South Korea, Indonesia, South Africa, et al)
October 29, 200421 yr I'm really tired of talking about politics. It's making me feel stupider just by association. :lol:
October 29, 200421 yr Author lmao you guys are loonies if you don't like american policy so much then get the hell out
October 29, 200421 yr just giving you some idea about why people don't like American policy and American presidents who run those policies... so chill. perhaps you should get the hell out. it's seriously wrong to say that to any fellow American.
October 29, 200421 yr plus american policy can affect the whole world, but then again we are talking about fidel castro and not american politics :rolleyes: :dozey:
October 29, 200421 yr THE BOTTOM LINE IS JOHN KERRY WILL WIN THIS ELECTION COME TUESDAY, NOV. 2, 2004
October 29, 200421 yr I don't know but i don't have anything against fidel!!! maybe i'm a comunist! :o
October 29, 200421 yr THE BOTTOM LINE IS JOHN KERRY WILL WIN THIS ELECTION COME TUESDAY' date=' NOV. 2, 2004[/quote'] JESUS CHRIST STOP POSTING THAT IN EVERY DAMN THREAD.
October 29, 200421 yr THE BOTTOM LINE IS JOHN KERRY WILL WIN THIS ELECTION COME TUESDAY' date=' NOV. 2, 2004[/quote'] JESUS CHRIST STOP POSTING THAT IN EVERY DAMN THREAD. Don't get mad at facts :P
October 29, 200421 yr Believe me, I want him to win as much as you do, but we don't need to post it over and over in every single thread, whether it's relevant or not.
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