Cuba Prepares for US Invasion

JaJae · 08-18-2006, 10:07 PM

FOXNews.com - Fidel 'Light' Prepares for Possible U.S. Invasion

Fidel 'Light' Prepares for Possible U.S. Invasion

Friday , August 18, 2006

By Brit Hume

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:

U.S. Invasion?

Fidel Castro's brother, Raul, has spoken out for the first time since becoming acting president of Cuba, revealing that after his brother's illness he mobilized the country's armed forces against a possible U.S. invasion.

Castro tells the state communist newspaper: "We could not rule out the risk of somebody going crazy — or even crazier — within the U.S. government."
{Ironic considering Castro is their leader.}

A State Department spokesman says the U.S. has no plans to invade Cuba and isn't impressed with the comments from what he called Fidel "light."

Equal Opportunity Offender?

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young has resigned as the head of Working Families for Wal-Mart a day after ripping Jews, Asians and Arabs in a newspaper interview.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Sentinel, Young defended the retail giant for forcing so-called mom-and-pop stores to close saying, "I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs."

Young later apologized for what he called "completely and utterly inappropriate" remarks, saying they "run contrary to everything that Wal-Mart is, and means, to communities."

Welcome to Democracy

Dozens of members of Afghanistan's parliament walked out of a session this week, outraged about their portrayal on a popular TV station.

The station aired real images of lawmakers yawning, napping, even picking their noses during debates.

The members stormed out of parliament after house leaders refused to bar the station's cameras.

The station director defended its coverage saying, "These are public figures at a public place. The media has the right to show what they do."

—FOX News Channel's Aaron Bruns contributed to this report.

I got this link from Google News, haven't seen anything else about it. Apparently Castro's brother has mobilized the army to prepare for a US invasion.

I got news for ya Little Fidel, the US doesn't care about you enough to invade. It's not like you have oil or anything. We would have done something long ago if we gave a crap about your little island.

I see this as nothing other than propaganda. It has to be for show. When have we ever said we would invade Cuba and why would we do it without going to the UN first? Is Cuba gonna be attention whore number two right behind Hezbollah?

ballz2wallz · 08-18-2006, 10:09 PM

venezuela, iran, and NK are all attention whores

6SpeedTA95 · 08-18-2006, 10:21 PM

Cuba Invade us?

they'd get about 100 miles inland and we'd beat the fuckin shit out of them

JaJae · 08-18-2006, 10:56 PM

Someone didn't read the thread.

curlyque221 · 08-18-2006, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by JaJae

FOXNews.com - Fidel 'Light' Prepares for Possible U.S. Invasion

I got this link from Google News, haven't seen anything else about it. Apparently Castro's brother has mobilized the army to prepare for a US invasion.

I got news for ya Little Fidel, the US doesn't care about you enough to invade. It's not like you have oil or anything. We would have done something long ago if we gave a crap about your little island.

I see this as nothing other than propaganda. It has to be for show. When have we ever said we would invade Cuba and why would we do it without going to the UN first? Is Cuba gonna be attention whore number two right behind Hezbollah?

Still want to run away to Cuba?

It could be fun...sightseeing...all the Cubans swimming away trying to escape from the United States blowing Cuba into tiny pieces.

7960 · 08-19-2006, 12:31 AM

Originally Posted by JaJae

I see this as nothing other than propaganda. It has to be for show. When have we ever said we would invade Cuba and why would we do it without going to the UN first? Is Cuba gonna be attention whore number two right behind Hezbollah?

For his brother to be taken seriously as their new leader he's got to

1. have a bad guy
2. beat him (or hold him off and put some good PR behind it)
3. do somethiing crazy/outrageous/unthinkable

So he gets up and says "we need to mobilize for an attack from the US. What does he have to lose?

1. he re-makes us the bad guy
2. if we don't invade then he "held us off" and can put some good PR around it
3. get up on a podium in a few months and yell "I held off a US invasion. I am your new LEADER!!"

........and if we do invade he's fucked but we'll also make his prediction right. His doing this is genius.

7960 · 08-19-2006, 12:32 AM

Originally Posted by 6SpeedTA95

Cuba Invade us? they'd get about 100 miles inland and we'd beat the fuckin shit out of them

doooooode........

motivez · 08-19-2006, 02:45 AM

I wonder if this is posturing because Castro's health is deteriorating and they don't expect him to last very long, so they need his brother to become as accepted as possible as quickly as possible..

And dude, 6, you think they'd get 100 miles inland? I don't think they'd make it to shore..

archangel003 · 08-19-2006, 09:52 AM

Expected move. Can't blame the Cuban government for being a little jumpy right now.

And to be honest JaJae, with our track record, I would probably be far more nervous about the US doing something crazy and illogical more than I would Cuba.

motivez · 08-19-2006, 01:09 PM

Yeah, it's been awhile since we've forc...spread democracy to another nation. All that pent up liberty needs to be released every now and again..