Rhetoric on Cuba self-serving

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Mr. Bush recently promised to apply more economic pressure on the 11 million people on the island of Cuba. This economic pressure will help Mr. Bush keep the approximate 360,000 Cuban-American votes he received in Dade County during the past presidential election.

The U.N. vote last year revealed that 175 countries voted for the United States to remove the Cuban embargo while only three voted to continue the embargo. The majority of American people, the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives are also against the Cuban embargo. The only reason the U.S. embargo on Cuba has existed for approximately the last 40 years is that no U.S. president has dared to lose the Cuban-American vote in Dade County. The loss of the Cuban-American vote would mean that a presidential candidate would probably lose Florida’s 28 electoral votes, making it highly probable he would lose the election.

We need a president who has a backbone and does what is right and not what is in his self-interest.

Mr. Bush recently regurgitated what some Cuban-Americans in Dade County have been saying for decades. However, the president should be more assertive when speaking to the country on important issues. We the American people want to hear the facts about the issues and expect a just approach to these issues. When the Cuban-Americans say, and George W. Bush repeats, that the Castro regime puts dissidents in prison, they left out important information. Fidel Castro claimed that these dissidents were put in prison because they were getting their instructions and support from a foreign entity.

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