Bush promises to rid Cuba of 'tyrant' Castro

gldstwmn · #1 10-31-2004, 05:17 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...p/us_vote_bush
MIAMI (AFP) - US President George W. Bush vowed to "keep the pressure on" and rid Cuba of Fidel Castro, an appeal to the hard-line Cuban-Americans Bush counted on to win Florida and the White House.

"I strongly believe the people of Cuba should be free from the tyrant," Bush told a boisterous crowd of supporters here two days before the election, winning the rally's loudest cheers and chants of "Viva Bush" -- long live Bush.

"Over the next four years, we will continue to press hard and ensure that the gift of freedom finally reaches the men and women of Cuba," he said. "We will not rest, we will keep the pressure on, until the Cuban people enjoy the same freedoms in Havana they received here in America."

The crowd packed into the Coconut Grove Convention Center cheered, screamed and applauded, waving pro-Bush signs in English and Spanish and shouting "four more years!"

Like most Republican candidates in Florida, Bush's hopes of victory here rest in large part on the support of the state's sizeable anti-Castro Cuban exile community.
Earlier, the president's top political strategist, Karl Rove, shouted "Cuba libre" -- free Cuba -- to reporters travelling with Bush.

The president was to make three stops in this pivotal state before going to another critical battleground state: Ohio, without which no modern Republican has won the White House.

Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, and Florida Governor Jeb Bush, the president's brother, began the day attending Catholic mass at the Church of the Epiphany, where Monseigneur Jude O'Doherty all but endorsed his reelection bid.

"What a great privilege it is for all of us to pray with the most powerful man on the face of the Earth," said O'Doherty, who praised Bush's stances against abortion and euthanasia and for limiting embryonic stem cell research.

Before the president arrived in Miami, a small army of speakers -- including Mexican-born actress and singer Lucia Mendez -- extolled him and attacked Kerry as the crowd slowly swelled to a few thousand.

Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen pointed to elections in Afghanistan and plans for elections in Iraq and said that Bush was committed to "help bring about that same freedom, that same democracy ... to the oppressed and long-suffering people of Cuba."

Another speaker strongly suggested that terrorists hoped for a Kerry victory, pointedly asking "who do the enemies of America favor?" and then thanking Bush for the global war on extremist violence.

Hawkeye · #2 10-31-2004, 07:59 PM

Give me 4 years and I'LL get rid of Fidel Castro. He's like 88 freaking years old

greatdarkwing · #3 10-31-2004, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye

Give me 4 years and I'LL get rid of Fidel Castro. He's like 88 freaking years old

Everyone has been waiting for Castro to die.....waiting.....waiting....still waiting....that man is surrounded by amazing doctors, he just might live forever just to piss off every Cuban exile in Miami.

~Alex

pianogirl04 · #4 10-31-2004, 08:22 PM

Hoo boy. Here we go again.

amber · #5 10-31-2004, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye

Give me 4 years and I'LL get rid of Fidel Castro. He's like 88 freaking years old

right. he's the Strom Thurmond of dictators...

estranged4life · #6 10-31-2004, 08:32 PM

just shoot Castro...Oops, my bad...That was a humorous clip from SNL that was just showed on "60 Minutes"

Personally we are just wanting Cuba for their cigars...Cant think of any other REAL reason

Brian j.

greatdarkwing · #7 10-31-2004, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by estranged4life

just shoot Castro...Oops, my bad...That was a humorous clip from SNL that was just showed on "60 Minutes"

Personally we are just wanting Cuba for their cigars...Cant think of any other REAL reason

Brian j.

There are no other reasons....now if Cuba had oil, thats a different story

~Alex

amber · #8 10-31-2004, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by greatdarkwing

There are no other reasons....now if Cuba had oil, thats a different story

~Alex

Ah, so you admit, and apparently endorse,it!!! Wars for Oil, that is. Texas tea.

estranged4life · #9 10-31-2004, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by greatdarkwing

There are no other reasons....now if Cuba had oil, thats a different story

~Alex

Cuba had Oil our much loved government would remove all troops from Iraq/Afghanistan and immediately send 'em to Cuba to overthrow Castro, So we can annex Cuba as an American terrritory and rename it South Florida

Brian j.

greatdarkwing · #10 10-31-2004, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

Ah, so you admit, and apparently endorse,it!!! Wars for Oil, that is. Texas tea.

No, Im just saying if Cuba had something important, we would have knocked out Castro way back when...but it has nothing. Saddam has been a thorn in our sides for a very long time. Bush had the balls to go in there and remove the thorn.

~Alex

greatdarkwing · #11 10-31-2004, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by estranged4life

Cuba had Oil our much loved government would remove all troops from Iraq/Afghanistan and immediately send 'em to Cuba to overthrow Castro, So we can annex Cuba as an American terrritory and rename it South Florida

Brian j.

LMAO!!!

amber · #12 10-31-2004, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by greatdarkwing

No, Im just saying if Cuba had something important, we would have knocked out Castro way back when...but it has nothing. Saddam has been a thorn in our sides for a very long time. Bush had the balls to go in there and remove the thorn.

~Alex

No, exactly. We fight wars if they have something we want, to say it's for another reason is, well, a lie...

greatdarkwing · #13 10-31-2004, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

No, exactly. We fight wars if they have something we want, to say it's for another reason is, well, a lie...

Afghanistan was for oil? I thought it was for blood.

~Alex

estranged4life · #14 10-31-2004, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by greatdarkwing

Afghanistan was for oil? I thought it was for blood.

~Alex

I always thought it was because of those Damned Afghani's that WE Amercians have Afghans instead of Blankets...But this was before finding out it was because we needed to rescue the much loved "Stevie Goat" from being kidnapped, Well at least thats what those folk from South Park said

Brian j.

amber · #15 10-31-2004, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by greatdarkwing

Afghanistan was for oil? I thought it was for blood.

~Alex

No, Brian is right, it was for Stevie...A national resource more precious than oil!!!