CNN's report of "kill Castro" controversy

She's now saying the comment was taken out of context, but thanks to youtube her entire comments can be heard here:

Ros-Lehtinen's comments

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Comrade Stalin.

I ask you to stop sending terrorists to Yugoslavia to murder me. We have already caught seven ... If this doesn't stop, I will send one man to Moscow, and there will be no need to send a second.

Joseph Broz Tito

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What are they at now? 650 attempts to murder Fidel?

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If this goes through it will be 639. Don't exagerate or else the likes of EmmaG will say all of us "commies" are liers!

At the same time it appears the US wants to drag us into becoming their new Cuban "refugee" dumping ground:

U.S. wants Canada to take refugees from Iraq, Cuba

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The United States is calling on Canada to accept more refugees driven from Iraq in the wake of the turmoil there.

American officials also want Canada to take about 40 Cuban refugees now housed at the American naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba.

Ellen Sauerbery, an American assistant secretary of state, spent two days in Ottawa this week discussing the matter with foreign affairs and immigration officials.

Ms. Sauerbery said most migrants are economic refugees and in no danger of political persecution and are routinely returned to Cuba. But the 40 at the naval base, along with a handful of Haitians, are deemed to be legitimate refugees, she said.

“Canada has been very helpful in taking Haitians, but at this point has not taken Cubans. We would welcome Canada's assistance.”

She said Canadian officials said they would look into the matter.

Ms. Sauerbery also said the United States is planning for a new wave of migration when Fidel Castro, the ailing Cuban leader, dies.

“A lot of people may see this as an opportunity to escape. We are laying out a strategy to try to discourage a mass migration, but at the same time we can't guarantee it won't occur.”

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How nice of our colonial masters to choose which refugees we should take in. Maybe they figured if we had our own gusano population we might start acting as irrationally as them too.

How much do you want to bet that their conversation involved us becoming Washington's new poodle on the Cuban file?

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I also see a far darker picture emerging which is Washington drawing us into their stupid economic war against Cuba. Of course their poodle Steve will only be too happy to oblige.

Fidel I also agree because history is full of examples of western powers interfering in the affairs of others only to find a far worse outcome than originally planned. I believe it's called blowback.

[ 19 January 2007: Message edited by: a lonely worker ]

To give an example: if a Cuban politician said about Bush what that Repugnicon said about Castro, the marines would have already been deployed.

I've seen somewhere the US is now spending more money on monitoring Venezuela and Cuba than they are on looking for bin Laden.

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Originally posted by a lonely worker:
That would be nice Fidel but unfortunately until our voting system changes and we have a fully committed left wing party, I'm afraid an NDP government (while being a massive improvement) would not dare the heavy lifting that needs to be done (repeal NAFTA, re-examine commitments to NATO, WTO, IMF and neo-lib globalisation in general).

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The way I see it, the NDP campaigned against FTA and NAFTA over at least two election campaigns. I think they will focus on Kyoto for now as it's straightforward for Canadians. They can see the effects of global warming all around them.

I think the capitalists realize the writing is on the wall for oil based economy and commodities. I think the focus for privatization since GATS has been the global multi-trillion dollar public services in: health care, education, and child care. The NDP is the only one of the three mainstreams, as you've said, who are for maintaining public funding and control of these important services.

The NDP has had to bide its time with conservative ideology in the provinces for privatization. The Saskatchewan NDP under Calvert seems to have continued with the neo-Liberal agenda for privatization. Privatization is a gimmick as is the other part of that neo-Liberal ideology, deregulation. The ONDP knows that things like electrical power generation and health care should remain publicly-funded and controlled. And we only have to look at the deregulation and privatization disasters in the U.S. and around the world to know that the NDP has taken the correct stance all along.

That's why I still believe PR has to be priority one to allow for a more democratic process to ensure the oligarchs, which has its tenticles in elements of all parties (witness Summerville's brief forray), will not take precedence over the people.

[ 19 January 2007: Message edited by: Fidel ]