CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS………..

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Killing Iraq by John Pilger The Nation magazine, December 14, 1998 Lesley Stahl: "We have heard that half a million children have died [as a result of sanctions against Iraq]. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima …. Is the price worth it? "

The price of what, worth what? You mean we, US, killed these children via our embargo? So, these children died, though we sent aid to Iraq during this embargo for humanitarian purposes to keep those children from dying, and Saddam STILL used that money for developing weapons of mass destruction instead of feeding and medicating his dying population? He must be all that this administration says he is, and a bag of chips. Madeleine Albright: "… we think the price is worth it." – 60 Minutes, May 12, 1996

What price? So the US wants to kill the children of Iraq? And do what with the leader? What kind of shit propaganda is Leslie and Fiends promulgating? Or are they doing it for the children ,too?

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Oh, well, Cuba has spoken, so it must be true. I mean they’ve got the insight, economy, wisdom, practice, and goods to be a world leader. I once was lost, but now I am found; t’was blind but now I see. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Cuban foreign minister says new U.S. policy of pre-emptive military action will destroy U.N. credibility and create global problems for Bush (EXCERPT) Fri Sep 20, 2:19 PM ET, by EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer

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Cuban foreign minister says new U.S. policy of pre-emptive military action will destroy U.N. credibility … Ooops! Looks like someone beat us to that. and create global problems for Bush And that too! —

Since both Cuba AND the U.N. have become irrelevant, who really cares.

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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Human_Rights/KillingIraq.html Killing Iraq by John Pilger The Nation magazine, December 14, 1998 Lesley Stahl: "We have heard that half a million children have died [as a result of sanctions against Iraq]. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima …. Is the price worth it? " Madeleine Albright: "… we think the price is worth it." – 60 Minutes, May 12, 1996 *

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Cuban foreign minister says new U.S. policy of pre-emptive military action will destroy U.N. credibility and create global problems for Bush

a U.N. with Syria on the Security Committee and Libya on the Human Rights Committee already has no creditability. With allies that we’ve protected for the last 50 years never wanting to support us and when they do for the most part it is only reluctantly and a bunch of third world Islamic fundamentalist running wild what more problems could the U.S. have? IMO let the U.S. look out for it’s self first and let the Europeans fend for themselves. As the population trends in those European countries continue there will be no need for being concern about having the Arabs as friends as they will have become simply another Arab country.

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Castro is our little bitch and this is why if you look at a map it looks like Cuba is about to get fucked by our penis (Florida). Since when do we listen to him? — Anti-Jackass

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Cuban foreign minister says new U.S. policy of pre-emptive military action will destroy U.N. credibility and create global problems for Bush (EXCERPT) Fri Sep 20, 2:19 PM ET, by EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK – Cuba’s foreign minister said Friday the new U.S. policy of pre-emptive military action will destroy the credibility of the United Nations ( news – web sites) and create global problems for the Bush administration, even with its allies. Felipe Perez Roque said President George W. Bush ( news – web sites) could avoid the "political cost" because there is no country that poses a threat to the United States "militarily, technologically and economically." Bush served notice on Friday that the United States will shift its military strategy away from the deterrence that characterized the Cold War and toward pre-emptive action against terrorists seeking weapons of mass destruction. Saying the United States cannot allow its enemies to strike first, Bush declared that his administration will take action against hostile forces like Iraq, even when multinational groups like the United Nations balk. "The concept of pre-emptive war – which includes the unilateral decision to engage in that – means the destruction of the United Nations, and actually it means that the very little credibility that the United Nations has will be totally destroyed," Perez Roque said in an interview at Cuba’s U.N. Mission. "It means that the Charter of the United Nations would be left without any meaning at all," he said. "It doesn’t authorize any pre-emptive action. That concept is nonexistent in international law." The Cuban minister said pre-emptive action won’t prevent terrorist acts organized by small cells in several different countries, pointing to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Washington and New York which were prepared mainly on U.S. soil and in Germany. "Is the United State going to launch a war against Germany because the acts were prepared there?" he asked. As for Iraq, Perez Roque backed the return of U.N. inspectors, saying Cuba has not seen "a single piece of evidence" from the Americans that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction. He said a pre-emptive war would bring problems for the United States. "It would decrease its moral authority and its prestige in the eyes of the international community," Perez Roque said, singling out U.S. allies in NATO ( news – web sites) and the European Union ( news – web sites). The official said he wasn’t worried that the United States could take pre-emptive military action against Cuba. "I do not believe that there are any possibilities to fabricate a war against Cuba," he said. "I’m not saying they’re not thinking about it…. There’s a small portion of the Cuban community very close to President Bush – very extremist, very fanatic – which organized and financed terrorist activities against Cuba, and every day these people are asking the government to invade Cuba." Cuba has been under a U.S. trade embargo since shortly after President Fidel Castro ( news – web sites) defeated the CIA ( news – web sites)-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. The communist nation has continued to vex subsequent U.S. administrations, and it is currently on the U.S. State Department’s terrorism watch list. On Wednesday, Perez Roque criticized U.S. allegations that Cuba has deliberately subverted the U.S.-led war on terrorism, saying it was a "colossal lie" concocted to counter growing pressure in the United States against the trade embargo.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020920/ap_wo_en_p… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – ba_1 Otis Willie Associate Librarian The American War Library http://www.americanwarlibrary.com

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Cuban foreign minister says new U.S. policy of pre-emptive military action will destroy U.N. credibility …

Ooops! Looks like someone beat us to that. and create global problems for Bush

And that too! —

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Cuban foreign minister says new U.S. policy of pre-emptive military action will destroy U.N. credibility and create global problems for Bush (EXCERPT) Fri Sep 20, 2:19 PM ET, by EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK – Cuba’s foreign minister said Friday the new U.S. policy of pre-emptive military action will destroy the credibility of the United Nations ( news – web sites) and create global problems for the Bush administration, even with its allies. Felipe Perez Roque said President George W. Bush ( news – web sites) could avoid the "political cost" because there is no country that poses a threat to the United States "militarily, technologically and economically." Bush served notice on Friday that the United States will shift its military strategy away from the deterrence that characterized the Cold War and toward pre-emptive action against terrorists seeking weapons of mass destruction. Saying the United States cannot allow its enemies to strike first, Bush declared that his administration will take action against hostile forces like Iraq, even when multinational groups like the United Nations balk. "The concept of pre-emptive war – which includes the unilateral decision to engage in that – means the destruction of the United Nations, and actually it means that the very little credibility that the United Nations has will be totally destroyed," Perez Roque said in an interview at Cuba’s U.N. Mission. "It means that the Charter of the United Nations would be left without any meaning at all," he said. "It doesn’t authorize any pre-emptive action. That concept is nonexistent in international law." The Cuban minister said pre-emptive action won’t prevent terrorist acts organized by small cells in several different countries, pointing to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on Washington and New York which were prepared mainly on U.S. soil and in Germany. "Is the United State going to launch a war against Germany because the acts were prepared there?" he asked. As for Iraq, Perez Roque backed the return of U.N. inspectors, saying Cuba has not seen "a single piece of evidence" from the Americans that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction. He said a pre-emptive war would bring problems for the United States. "It would decrease its moral authority and its prestige in the eyes of the international community," Perez Roque said, singling out U.S. allies in NATO ( news – web sites) and the European Union ( news – web sites). The official said he wasn’t worried that the United States could take pre-emptive military action against Cuba. "I do not believe that there are any possibilities to fabricate a war against Cuba," he said. "I’m not saying they’re not thinking about it…. There’s a small portion of the Cuban community very close to President Bush – very extremist, very fanatic – which organized and financed terrorist activities against Cuba, and every day these people are asking the government to invade Cuba." Cuba has been under a U.S. trade embargo since shortly after President Fidel Castro ( news – web sites) defeated the CIA ( news – web sites)-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. The communist nation has continued to vex subsequent U.S. administrations, and it is currently on the U.S. State Department’s terrorism watch list. On Wednesday, Perez Roque criticized U.S. allegations that Cuba has deliberately subverted the U.S.-led war on terrorism, saying it was a "colossal lie" concocted to counter growing pressure in the United States against the trade embargo. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020920/ap_wo_en_p… ba_1 Otis Willie Associate Librarian The American War Library http://www.americanwarlibrary.com

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