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View Poll Results: Should The Travel Embargo to Cuba be Lifted?
Yes 36 92.31%
No 3 7.69%
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Old 04-01-2011, 10:36 PM
 
Location: San Antonio Texas
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For what reason?

Travel to Miami instead.
Miami is not a foreign land. The people there are rude, east coast types. It is an american destination with American prices. What we need is a tropical paradise with down to earth prices.
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Old 04-01-2011, 11:15 PM
 
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The Cold War's over. Lift the ban.

We could help the average people's economy with cigar and old car body part purchases alone.
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Old 04-01-2011, 11:33 PM
 
Location: Louisiana
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For what reason?

Travel to Miami instead.
Too many New Yorkers and Canadians.
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Old 04-02-2011, 02:17 AM
 
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I think travel to Cuba should be encouraged, even if only for people to see first hand what a failure communism is.
Or what economic oppression sanctions look like. Who can tell if communism fails if folks insist on meddling? IMO it wouldn't have lasted this long if not for US oppression, but now we'll never really know because evidence tampering under the guise of democracy makes liars of 2 people, not just one. Corrupting your own principles to 'win' leaves you bereft.
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Old 04-02-2011, 02:19 AM
 
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Miami is not a foreign land. The people there are rude, east coast types. It is an american destination with American prices. What we need is a tropical paradise with down to earth prices.
Try haiti.
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Old 04-02-2011, 02:26 AM
 
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Let's see... there never was a travel ban on the Soviet Union or any of the other eastern block countries, which no longer exist as "socialist" states. There is a travel ban on Cuba and it stands as the only remaining Marxist-Leninist state.
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Old 04-02-2011, 02:32 AM
 
Location: Louisiana
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Or what economic oppression sanctions look like. Who can tell if communism fails if folks insist on meddling? IMO it wouldn't have lasted this long if not for US oppression, but now we'll never really know because evidence tampering under the guise of democracy makes liars of 2 people, not just one. Corrupting your own principles to 'win' leaves you bereft.

Not doing business with them is not oppressing them.
We have not "meddled" with their island since the Bay
of Pigs. The rest of the world is free to trade with
them. Without their Soviet benefactors they fell flat
on their face. What oppression? Fidel recently
admitted that communism failed in his country.
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Old 04-02-2011, 02:32 AM
 
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Let's see... there never was a travel ban on the Soviet Union or any of the other eastern block countries, which no longer exist as "socialist" states. There is a travel ban on Cuba and it stands as the only remaining Marxist-Leninist state.
And the Castro revolution did not start out as a communist one. The Russians certainly did not consider them communist at the time. But we did a real nice job of pushing Cuba into Russia's arms.
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Old 04-02-2011, 02:46 AM
 
Location: Denmark
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Decades of embargo, countless assassination attempts, an unsuccessful invasion...man the US should just give it up and accept Cuba's victory in this David vs. Goliath scenario.
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Old 04-02-2011, 02:50 AM
 
Location: Louisiana
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Victory?!?
That's a good one.
Is Cuba what "victory" looks like?
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