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4/9/2009 4:43:43 PM
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Hound, this business about our embargo only hurting the Cuban people and not Fidel is a common canard but is a total misconception. Every other country in the world has normal trade relations with Cuba, including Canada and Mexico, and yet the people still live in squalor, poverty and oppression. The fact is if you visit any of the Caribbean islands, all of which except Cuba have open trade with the U.S., they are all rife with poverty, crime, drugs, etc.
My point is that the economic conditions in Cuba have absolutely zero to do with the relationship with the U.S. If some tiny island can't make a go of it trading with the entire world (billions of them), except the U.S., then it is because of their own corruption and incompetence. And if you normalize relations with the U.S. it will still be the same petty dictatorship run by a pair of failed Marxists. You are probably right that things will change there for the better when Fidel and Raul are worm food but the problem is of their own making and not caused by our lack of desire to trade with them.
Besides, Cuban cigars are way over rated and what else would we want from that hellhole anyway? I prefer Honduran or Nicaraguan any day.
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