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CGowen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 01:20 PM
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Castro suggests Washington fails to stop attacks on US soil to justify war on terror
HAVANA: Fidel Castro suggested that Washington has deliberately failed to stop terrorist attacks against Americans because it needed to "deliver a bang" that would justify its war on terror.

In the latest in a series of essays that Cuba's 80-year-old Maximum leader has begun writing every few days, Castro on Sunday seized on U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's comments this past week expressing a "gut feeling" that the United States faces an increased risk of attack this summer.

"The government of the United States sees and hears all, with or without legal authority," Castro wrote. "They can prevent any attack on their people, unless there is some imperial need to deliver a bang so that they can carry on with and justify the brutal war which has been declared against the culture, religion, economy and independence of other peoples."

The accusation came at the end of an essay titled "Bush, Health and Education," in which Castro claimed Cubans are better cared for than Americans, and that his poor island nation and its legions of doctors working around Latin America have done more for the region than the U.S. ever will.

Published in the Communist Party youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde, the essay criticized U.S. President George W. Bush for suggesting that recent U.S. initiatives have provided quality medical care to Latin Americans.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/16/news/CB-GEN-Cuba-Castro.php
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davidwparker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 01:25 PM
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1. they needed a big bang to start one, too. In that link that I posted
to the interview with the former British intelligence offer, the * administration is behind everything that we think they're behind.

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CGowen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 02:10 PM
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6. what link? n/t
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davidwparker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 02:15 PM
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7. Links:
Here's a more http://st911.org/">scientific link.

Here's a http://cooperativeresearch.org/911_press_for_truth.html">things that make you go 'hmmm' link.
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CGowen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 02:18 PM
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8. I was talking about the British intelligence officer, was it David Shayler? n/t
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davidwparker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 02:23 PM
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9. (the light goes on over my head) His name was Quatar.
Edited on Wed Jul-25-07 02:48 PM by davidwparker
The interview http://jontalk.com">can be found here.

Lower, right corner, just above Sign the Petition.
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CGowen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 02:35 PM
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10. were you trying to post a link?
I looked at your Kucinich's HR 333 site and couldn't find "sign the petition"
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davidwparker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 02:46 PM
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12. its the "can be found here" text in my message. click on that.
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davidwparker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 02:49 PM
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13. link fixed ... sorry. I had a space in a place the space shouldn't have been n/t
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pepperbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 01:26 PM
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2. uh yeah...that's about right. n/t
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 01:28 PM
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3. Well, Fidel obviously isn't as sharp as he once was.
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 05:02 PM
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14. i was thinking the complete opposite..
dude's totally on the ball.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 05:36 PM
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15. But most people were thinking LIHOP or MIHOP years ago.
If he's just figuring that out *now*....
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 06:00 PM
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17. ahhhhhhhh..
thanks for the clarification. He is getting along in years.
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Rageneau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 01:31 PM
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4. Castro and I have the same opinion of BushCo
It's pretty sad when I agree with a communist dictator more than with my own president (and trust his word more, too.)
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 01:52 PM
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5. Yeah. What Rageneau said. (sad, isn't it, to have come to this??)
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 02:39 PM
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11. Despite his many major faults, I never heard anyone say that Castro
is dumb - he wouldn't have lasted nearly 50 years if he was.

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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-25-07 05:49 PM
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16. He would know about that....
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