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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:18 PM
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Castro targets Jeb Bush with 'fat little brother' poke
Dec. 5, 2005, 9:00PM
Castro targets Jeb Bush with 'fat little brother' poke


By MARC CAPUTO
Miami Herald

TALLAHASSEE, FLA. - In a harangue about how a suspected anti-Cuba terrorist entered the United States, Fidel Castro singled out Gov. Jeb Bush — and went straight for the gut.

Castro called the governor "the fat little brother in Florida" and wondered if Bush had helped Luis Posada Carriles into the country, according to a transcript released Monday of the Nov. 17 address to University of Havana students, who erupted in laughter.

The Cuban leader didn't stop there.

"Forgive me for using the term 'fat little brother' " Castro said. "It is not a criticism, rather a suggestion that he do some exercises and go on a diet, don't you think? I'm doing this for the gentleman's health."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3504844.html
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TNOE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:19 PM
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1. LOL
that is rich!
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:20 PM
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2. Jebbie is no match for Fidel.
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:24 PM
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3. This countries embargo against Cuba is the stupidest thing
to think in the post cold war we still consider poor little Cuba a threat. But Castro is right, Jeb could afford to lose a few pounds.
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catmother Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:29 PM
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7. i agree. i also want to know why i can't go to cuba if i want to. if
we're so free why can't i just take a vacation there. it looks like an interesting place.
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radio4progressives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 03:53 PM
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11. It's not that Cuba threatens our National Security, it's that Cuba
reclaimed it's own country, and in that process told the United States of America that it can no longer exploit their country. Cuba claimed it's sovereignty and ended Colonial practice of exploitation and the attitude that Cuba exists to serve at the pleasure of United States Military, CIA and Italian Mafia.

We hate Castro for it. We thought that when we waged war against Spanish Colonialization of Cuba over a hundred or so years ago, that Cuba and it's resources belonged to the United States of Dole and Bacardi. They said no, and we've been pissed at them ever since, determined to starve them into oblivion until we can steal for us what belongs to the Cuban people.

That's the American Way.



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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:26 PM
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4. ONLY one point,,, Castro needs glasses
LOL, * is the short member of the family.... But Jebbie is the rounder member. :rofl:
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:26 PM
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5. ROFLMAO!
:rofl::rofl::rofl: Good one Fidel!
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merbex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:27 PM
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6. The only thing better than that remark would be seeing the look on
Jeb's face when he hears it
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:38 PM
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8. Who me? ..... Fat?






(Give me another helping of mashed taters and gravy wouldja please? And another slice of that key lime pie too.)


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liberalnurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:41 PM
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9. Sweet......
He must of been taking cue's from our Al Sharpton.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 12:49 PM
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10. Hey watchit Fidel! That's Barbara's sweet li'l angel-baby you've dissed.
Not worth the new onset of assassination plans to go after baby Bush.
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 05:01 PM
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12. Castro did not show photos -- so I will
Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 05:02 PM by Lisa


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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 05:13 PM
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13. Jeb's a lot more swollen these days.
He gasps for breath when he speaks, too.

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