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IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Cuba Si, Colombia No? (http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=321491293790404 - broken link)
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Cuban-Americans will be given special travel privileges to visit relatives on Cuba, and be able to send unlimited remittances. Restrictions on food and medicine sales will be dropped, and goods sent to Cuba may even qualify for U.S. trade credits.
The Castro dictatorship, which controls all economic activity in Cuba, would no doubt benefit handsomely from this. Fees skimmed from remittances would beef up state coffers by the billions, while trade credits will let Cuba buy our goods with our money. Spies, too, will have a field day with freer travel.
And in return for all this, Castro gives . . . nothing.
Leave it to obama the appeaser and the democrats to shun our friends and allies and embrace our communist enemies.
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But none hold water so long as Colombia, a U.S. ally that has helped us out as few others have, continues to be denied the free trade treaty that Congress promised in 2005, 2006, and 2007. It's downright obscene to reward Castro, an unremitting foe, while denying Colombia, a friend in a sea of free trade countries, the right to trade freely with us.
Click the link to see all that Columbia has done for the US.
Why are democrats/liberals always, always on the side of communists and our enemies?
Why are democrats/liberals always, always on the side of communists and our enemies?
The question is logically incoherent. Democrats and democrat-leaning voters are, at present, a majority of the voters. What, then, do you mean in talking about "our" enemies? Whose enemies? Maybe we, the majority, don't want to keep all the enemies the right wing has stacked up for the country.
P.S. How do you manage to misspell Colombia even as you cut and paste from an article about it?
Chávez has aligned himself with Castro, taking over where the Soviet Union left off. In an article for National Review magazine last April titled "Latin America's Terrible Two," Otto Reich, the former assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere and a member of the National Security Council under the current President Bush, stated that in exchange for billions of dollars, "Castro has provided an estimated 20,000 or more 'teachers' (read: indoctrinators), intelligence agents, and military advisers to turn Venezuela into another Cuba. Chávez has also provided safe haven to Colombia's Communist terrorist groups such as the FARC, thus undermining one of the most democratic and successful leaders in the region, President Alvaro Uribe."
Chávez has funded other radical leaders as well. He has called the U.S. "the world's most evil regime," and threatened to cut off oil exports. According to Reich, in a recent visit from the president of Iran, Mohammed Khatami, to Venezuela, "Chávez publicly defended Iran's right to develop nuclear power and said that if the U.S. used military power to stop Iran, Venezuela would cut off oil deliveries to the U.S."
In addition, Chávez is engaged in a huge military build-up, buying and planning to buy sophisticated weapons from Russia, including 50 Mig-29s, 40 attack helicopters, and 100,000 advanced AK-47s. Chávez was the first Western leader to visit Saddam Hussein in Iraq, in 2000, since the end of the first Gulf War. He is also reported to have supported al-Qaeda and Hezbollah members in Venezuela.
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P.S. How do you manage to misspell Colombia even as you cut and paste from an article about it?
Good call. It is idiots like this person that started the thread that I want to hide my kids from, hide my jewels and lock my home.
These people are so ignorant that they spend 2 minutes reading 1 article, form an opinion, stick with it and copy/paste it all over. These are the type of people, that I put in my famous "75%" category. Most americans are dumb and fall in this category.
Wait a minute... didn't you bash free trade treaties in various other threads? Pretty sure you have... which side do you take on that particular issue? Do you believe in free-trade treaties like NAFTA, or not?
P.S. How do you manage to misspell Colombia even as you cut and paste from an article about it?
Classic.
How about Uribe pressures the FARC to release the rest of the hostages they are holding. Better yet how about Colombia cleans up its own act without taking billions for us and remaining the most dangerous country on the continent.
Well, I kind of like Uribe and what he has been doing in Colombia:
"Operation Checkmate," the brilliantly executed July 2 rescue of 15 hostages—including high-profile captive Ingrid Betancourt, three American citizens, and 11 soldiers and police—was a brilliant triumph of intelligence, coordination, and deception. The audacious rescue casts an entirely different light on President Uribe, the Colombian government, and the FARC. Most Colombians reacted as if their nation had just won the World Cup, and Uribe now enjoys above 90 percent approval rating...
The FARC is also isolated from political support, with approximately 97 percent of Colombians opposing the organization. The capture of computers belonging to Raul Reyes, whose contents were authenticated by Interpol, was akin to lifting a large boulder and exposing the slimy earth below; foreign support for the FARC was thrust into the harsh glare of international scrutiny...
President Chávez's change of heart in June—when he said the day of the guerrilla was over in Latin America—has not passed unnoticed.
IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Cuba Si, Colombia No? (http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=321491293790404 - broken link)
Leave it to obama the appeaser and the democrats to shun our friends and allies and embrace our communist enemies.
Click the link to see all that Columbia has done for the US.
Why are democrats/liberals always, always on the side of communists and our enemies?
You want to talk abour Free Trade agreement with Colombia, or you want to talk about Cuba trade embargo?
Pick one, and don't try to confuse one with the other.
Yeah Fidel is going to get more money isnt that great
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