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Everything that I said could also be said about other countries, so what!


WHAT? What does that even MEAN?


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Google how many people have died because of sanctimonious u.s. sanctions before you bleat.



No... you do it. I wanna hear: how many people are dying because of US sanctions. You wanna incant that tired old bullshit about Iraqi babies dying because of Uncle's sanctions? Tell it to Kofi. Do you know NOTHING about the oil-for-palaces scandal? The article I quoted from says the Cubans starved because, among other things, Castro backed the wrong fargin' horse... his patron went tits-up on him and left him high and dry.

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Of course I would defend castro against the likes of batista, pinochet, the shah, etc. etc..



Yeah. you would... SCHMUCK! Why not try to peddle that argument among the very successful and prominent Cuban community in South Florida? They'll tear you limb from limb... Batista was a crook, but compared to Castro he was a fargin' saint... why the hell do you think the Cuban middle class ran for their lives?

And you believe Khomeini was better than the shah... how marvelous. Elaine Sciolino's "Persian Mirrors" and Christiane Bird's book about Iran (name escapes me now) will tell you that the people of the Islamic Republic harbour no such ridiculous illusions, but you go on feeding out this nonsense.