Comments for Obama moves to mend US image at http://www.independent.co.ug , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.independent.co.ug Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:43:28 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/world-report/890-obama-moves-to-mend-us-image#comment-14935 So pastor1, you want the whole world to believe what you sayinf on this forum? look, the days of the information scarcity are well behind us and we really know that the imprialistic embogo imposed on Cuba is so inhuman and your country, the mighty USA is the worst violator of every law in the book.its only the violation is aganist you that you will cry foul. For record who started the terrarism act by hijacking and bombing a plane carrying 73 people from Havana in the eary 1970s if not the USA and the main culpult ane Carcilles after being tried and found guilty was instead protected by the same organisation that had hired him.Why should the difference in ideology ie capitalism vs Socialism -communism be a sure source of hell to the cubans? did the USA loose more land than the Castro senior? it was the the Agrian reform carried out in that country and it did not exclusively affect the USA interest. so because the Castro brothers along the legend Dr.Ernesto Che Guavara did not and will not subscribe to your man eat man notion of life they become the worst human being ever to leave? dont you know we the Abgraighb and Gwatanamo human rights violations and you have the audicity to take us for fools just because you are from or talking on the behalf of the mighty imperialistic state or is it that you guyz have never come to terms with the embrassiment of the 1962 war at the bay of pigs? Who does not know that there is whole organisation affliated to the state department that is charged with terrarising and subtaging the Cuban state. You that thousands of cubans drawn in the but you know very well that there is an agreet btn the countries that the USA has failed to honour which allows ships to correct the cubans who want leave the island but because of double standards, u will not do it so that the people take risks and blame the castro brothers.Enough is enough and the whole world knows the trueth so let President Barrack Obama do the right thing and straighten out problems that his predicessors only helped to exasibate. - rwabukanga Tue, 12 May 2009 15:06:45 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/world-report/890-obama-moves-to-mend-us-image#comment-14769 U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, D-N.J. on realities in Cuba I urge everyone to look at the speech by Senator Menendez D-NJ on youtube (a link posted here). He details the truth about life in Cuba, and the abuses of the Castro dictatorship. It should be required watching for those which have apparently abandoned their moral duty to freedom. Shame! pro-Castro elements for participating in such a sham, and for espousing admiration for the Castro brothers and their totalitarian regime. I expect such excesses from radicals, but not from anyone who thinks clearly, or from anyone who values freedom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vbpJ6Ishbg - postor1 Wed, 06 May 2009 11:41:29 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/world-report/890-obama-moves-to-mend-us-image#comment-14768 What a hypocritical double standard ! Now they happily advocate for total "engagement" with a 50 years old totalitarian regime. They don't even care that more than 50 per cent of the oppressed people in Cuba are black. For some insensitive people, the Castro brothers are more important than the stifled freedom voices languishing in Castros' jails…..but most American citizens do not dismiss history as lightly as you seem to do. Intelligent people are not fooled by your rantings. America has always stood alone when it comes to moral issues. The fact that the rest of the world recognizes Cuba and its regime has absolutely NO bearing on America's stance. - postor1 Wed, 06 May 2009 11:38:26 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/world-report/890-obama-moves-to-mend-us-image#comment-14767 and to bring back home fresh anti- American slogans from "el Comandante". After 50 years of communism, Cubans see the United States as the "promised land" and the "American Way of Life " as the raw model for their future generations. This mistaken policy will destroy forever our present moral image and stature in the eyes of the oppressed people in Cuba. They need freedom.....but have no use for abusive adventurers, communist fellow travelers or Castro siypathizers. I think it would be wise if all this money destined for Castro, stay home to help aliviate our awful economic situation. - postor1 Wed, 06 May 2009 11:34:51 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/world-report/890-obama-moves-to-mend-us-image#comment-14766 America's stance Yes! Open up travel to Cuba - More US dollars for Castro's regime. Maybe if we're lucky we'll be able to travel to North Korea sometime soon, too. You cannot appease nor negotiate with EVIL! When will those on the left figure that out? Probably never. The only ones who will benefit from these actions are the Castros. 100,000 cubans murdered....more than 300,000 have suffered prison...almost one third of population in exile...and thousands drowning in the ocean every year escaping from hell....and some people have the audacity to call for “normalization of relations” . Poor souls! How can they look themselves in the mirror every morning. I remember well during the "apartheid" years in South Africa, how all these anti-embago voices (for Cuba) demanded from the United States a total economic blockade, called "disengagement", against the government of that country. What a hypocritical double standard ! Now they happily advocate for total "engagement" with a 50 years old totalitarian regime. They don't even care that more than 50 per cent of the oppressed people in Cuba are black. From his grave, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. answers those who want to negociate with the Castro regime. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 and cannot comment directly on this article or to those who would go to Cuba to lick the bloodied boots of a dictator that has enslaved 11 million Cubans for 50 years. But we can quote the leader of the American Civil Rights movement to show what he would have told those who today proclaim to follow his principles, while doing completely the opposite of what he preached. Here is a famous quote by Dr. King, that applies perfectly to those who want to go to Cuba to support an evil dictator: "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. ... So in order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system." From Dr King's book "Stride Toward Freedom," Page 51. For some insensitive people, the Castro brothers are more important than the stifled freedom voices languishing in Castros' jails…..but most American citizens do not dismiss history as lightly as you seem to do. Intelligent people are not fooled by your rantings. America has always stood alone when it comes to moral issues. The fact that the rest of the world recognizes Cuba and its regime has absolutely NO bearing on America's stance - postor1 Wed, 06 May 2009 11:31:50 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/reports/world-report/890-obama-moves-to-mend-us-image#comment-14765 Cuba's Bailout! Fidel Castro decided since 1959 to confiscate American properties . He executed and jailed Americans and didn't want us there. During the October Missile Crisis of 1962, Castro wrote a personal letter to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushev, begging him to "nuke" the United States. Castro supported all anti-American efforts in Latin America: Tupamaros, Montoneros, FMLN guerrillas; and now is the political adviser of Hugo Chavez and other anti- American crusaders. This paranoic dictator wants the U.S. taxpayers to finance his failed oppressive regime. It is estimated that the Castro brothers will pocket 5 billion dollars, if American tourists are allowed to go there for a good brainwash. Many will go to enjoy cuban cigars, rum and to engage in the horrors of child prostitution (jineteras) promoted by the authorities. Others in the extreme left, will go to reaffirm their ideological convictions and to bring back home fresh anti- American slogans from "el Comandante". After 50 years of communism, Cubans see the United States as the "promised land" and the "American Way of Life " as the raw model for their future generations. This mistaken policy will destroy forever our present moral image and stature in the eyes of the oppressed people in Cuba. They need freedom.....but have no use for abusive adventurers, communist fellow travelers or Castro siypathizers. I think it would be wise if all this money destined for Castro, stay home to help aliviate our awful economic situation. - postor1 Wed, 06 May 2009 11:27:56 +0100