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Thanks oily! Not only do you bring much humour to this forum, but also much class! Just to clear up, I don't want to use personal examples to shut people up as a touchy subject, but if anthonyvop has such strong convictions, perhaps he should argue and back things up, and not just FOX News up the joint. But as you've pointed out oily, his previous comment was not worthy of a dignified reply.Quote:
Originally Posted by oily oaf
Can't find a website with it, but I can asure he killed many of his opositors and sent at least 1 million of Cubans into exhile, plus he financed Che Guevaras guerrilla who after all was just a foreigner killing Bolivian soldiers!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eki
Without winning an election, I don't think anyone can claim he represents a vast majority!Quote:
Originally Posted by canada
And if Cuba is so great how come that of 3000 Cubans doctors that the goverment brought here already 150 have deflected and ran to Brazil and are now political refugees?
I'm not saying Pinochet was better, but both were/are tyrants and both countries deserved/deserve to be free with free democratical elections
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Originally Posted by jso1985
Two points. Firstly, its called a revolution. Would you call the French Revolution, the Glorious Revolution or American Revolution a case in which they merely killed people? Its all in who's telling the story.
As for the doctors going abroad? Simple really. $$$$$$$. Human beings are far from perfect, and those doctors are mere opportunists who see the dollar signs available by going elsewhere. They claim to be bogus refugees. There are many doctors in Cuba, with an extremely high per capita rate. Certainly they aren't being tortured or imprisoned.
Finally, I do believe that you can represent the people without a democratic election. Hell, you can have an election and represent about 30% of the people. How many people showed up at Fidel's birthday celebrations? Over 300,000 in a country of 11 million, and Havana with a population of just over 2 million? Not a bad indicator given how difficult transportation in Cuba is.
Besides, why does every remotely political thread turn on Fidel Castro and his administration? We've talked this to death.
Exactly. Like I've said before, Abraham Lincoln killed about 700,000 of his own countrymen in the American Civil War:Quote:
Originally Posted by canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
And Castro did an Eki's favourite, sent his troops to another country without any good reason!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_Civil_War
see? I still can't understand why Castro is seen as a "good guy" by the people who see Bush, Blair, Pinochet, etc, as "bad guys"
True, but at least there already was a civil war when they went in and didn't start one like Bush did.Quote:
Originally Posted by jso1985