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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP ‘Appalled’ Over Obama Granting Castro’s Daughter Visa, Ignores Trips Under Bush
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If its longstanding U.S. foreign policy to deny Mariela Castro a visa to enter the U.S., someone forgot to tell President George W. Bush. The Bush administration granted Castro not one but three visas to enter the U.S. in 2001 and 2002. State Department spokesman William Ostick told the Miami Herald:
Mariela Castro visited once in 2001 and twice in 2002. I cant discuss her visas specifically, but you can assume she needed one to travel.
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http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/05/22/488505/castro-daughter-gop-outrage-bush/
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GOP ‘Appalled’ Over Obama Granting Castro’s Daughter Visa, Ignores Trips Under Bush (Original Post)
Tx4obama
May 2012
OP
Haha, the US almost always grants Visa's to state officials. Look at Ahmadinejad.
joshcryer
May 2012
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malaise
(269,187 posts)1. You know the meme
It's OK if you're a ReTHUG
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)2. Who is this Boosh you speak of?
The Republican brain has no memory of any Boosh!
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)3. Haha, the US almost always grants Visa's to state officials. Look at Ahmadinejad.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)4. Where a Swastika you Right Wing Freaks
and get it over with. Embrace the inner you.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)5. Republicans will get butt-hurt over ANYTHING, real or imagined
What's puzzling is why the popular media feel obliged to run their every temper tantrum.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)6. wait a minute ... twice in 2002?
Weren't we still claiming that Fidel was in league with the terrorists then?
And isn't "a daughter" (or some relative) about as guilty (or giving guilt to a person), according to the logic of the patriotic psychosis of the post 9/11 era?
spanone
(135,886 posts)7. gop appalled... bwahahahahahaaa