Everyone can see who is the bully but the bully can not see himself and that’s why he is a bully.


Russian Duma condemns Cuba embargo

From correspondents in Moscow
November 04, 2006 05:04am

Article from: Agence France-Presse

RUSSIAN lawmakers unanimously condemned a United States trade embargo against Cuba overnight as "a flagrant violation of human rights" and called for international help to end the blockade.

All 432 members present in the State Duma, Russia's lower house, voted in favour of the resolution which urged other world parliaments to join Moscow in condemning the sanctions and in exerting pressure on Washington.

Leading Cuban officials visiting Russia expressed their gratitude to Moscow for adopting the resolution.

"I am particularly grateful for this resolution that condemns the unacceptable and illegal trade embargo on Cuba by the United States," Ricardo Alarcon, chairman of the Cuban National Assembly (parliament), told the Duma.

The overnight resolution is similar to previous ones adopted over a decade ago which likewise condemn the US embargo imposed in 1962 after Cuban leader Fidel Castro defeated an unsuccessful CIA-backed invasion.

The trade blockade has been steadily tightened under US President George W. Bush's two terms despite overwhelming calls in the United Nations to end the sanctions.

"I thank you in the name of all Cuban people, victims of political genocide," Cuba's Ambassador to Russia, Jorge Martinez, said, reading Havana's official reaction to the Russian resolution.

"The progress of the Cuban people is a reality that no one would be able to dispute."

Castro, 80, communist Cuba's only leader for nearly five decades, handed power to his brother, Defence Minister Raul Castro, 75, before intestinal surgery in late July.

When questioned about the health of the ailing leader, Mr Alarcon said that Castro was recovering and was "in good spirits".

"He is resting a lot, but he is attentively following world events. I spoke to him last night," Mr Alarcon added.

Raul Castro welcomed Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Fradov to Cuba in September, the first visit by a Russian leader in over 15 years and during which a series of mostly economic agreements were signed.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, economic relations between Russia and the island nation have been quite limited, in large part due to Havana's debt to Moscow, which some Russian analysts have put at US$26 billion.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,1011...0.html?from=rss

So very profound.

And yeah, we are just all upset by Russia's disaproval of Cuban sanctions...we are just all broken up about it.

/chuckle

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Are you saying that bullies cannot see themselves when they look in the mirror? I think perhaps the term you're looking for is 'vampire'.

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

That's the problem for the rest of world.

Sounds like it is a problem for Cuba.

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As much as I hate to agree with a troll I do think that we are just being stubborn at this point with the embargo. If it hasn't worked after this long then it just isn't going to work. The only reason we haven't ended it is that we do not want to look like we are giving up. We have a good relationship with Saudi Arabia and they have a human rights record that make Cuba look great and they are not a democracy to say the least.

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"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

I am talking about Bully behavior. Cuba does not have this problem.

Did Cuba not allow nuclear weapons to be put on it's island and pointed at the U.S.?

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"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

That was how many decades ago no? The Cold War was much more recent, but the US seems to have forgotten its angst against Russia and made peace there....

But Russia has at least changed it's government and held elections. Again I am against the embargo. I just want to point out that Cuba is not squeaky clean.

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"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

While I don't understand why the embargo is still in place, I think now it should be kept up until Castro passes away. Then we have a chance for a democratization process in Cuba - without sending soldiers there.

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"I do not believe that gay marriage should be legal."
- John McCain on the same episode of Hardball, after the commercial break

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- Tucker Bounds, Spokesman of the John McCain presidential campaign.

The straight talk express. You gotta love it.

I agree. Communism is too overbearing and hold the leaders accountable and responsible for everything that happens. You see, if there are poor people in Cuba, under communism, it's Castro's fault (and a small tiny embargo).

Whereas in democracy, if there is poor people, there is no accountability and lends the leaders that ability to tell them to go fuck themselves because it's their own damn fault.

This embargo is a joke. If you want to crush the Cuban regime, send McDonalds and Wal-Mart.

Laca, let me test my understanding of communism. In my understanding the whole goal of communism is the world goverment where the state eventually passes away because it is no longer needed. Until that point the primary justification for a state is to pursue that goal.

So, to cut to the chase, right now the legitimacy of the Cuba goverment is based on thier commitment to the destruction of America.

And we are the bad guys because we won't trade with you?

Furthermore have you guys ever made any serious diplomatic effort to convince us that you have changed your mind about eventually destroying us?

In my humble opinion, the world SHOULD condemn the US for it's hypocracy regarding Cuba. It was dumb to start with and it continues to be dumb foreign affairs.