Castro is a dictator - no argument. However, whether he is as bad as the U.S. would have everybody believe is questionable. Yes, Cuba is a fairly poor country, but whether they'd be that badly off without the U.S. sanctions over so many years, or whether it's really all Castro's fault, is an important question. In reality, what so cheesed off the U.S. (especially Strom Thurmond) is that Castro stopped the U.S.'s plundering of the country and it's people. For the U.S., Cuba was a playground from which much was extracted and little, if anything, returned. The Cuban people were treated as though they simply didn't matter - except, of course, for those who were the support network for the U.S., and who prospered by plundering their own countrymen for profit.
>You don't see anything wrong with Fidel Castro's leadership over the years?
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>>Tracy, in according of CNN and even National Geographics, Fidel Castro is an Evil (That's not their word that's what they mean)...
>>Throw these glasses... :)
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/12/ahmadinejad.itn/index.html>>>
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>>>Iran wants "peace and friendship for all," the country's president said Wednesday while again denying Western assertions his nation is pursuing nuclear weapons and trying to destabilize Iraq.
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>>>But Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took a hard line against Israel, calling it "an invader" and saying it "cannot continue its life."
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"We want friendship -- friendship to all. We love all nations and all human beings. Anyone who is killed, we are against it."