[NYTr] Roger Noriega Doesn't Know the Population of Cuba
 
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:16:42 -0500 (CDT)

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Tonight on the PBS NewsHour, they had a fairly brief report of the Bush
Cuba Fandango of today. Showed a clip of the video of Bush's
presentation, the audience looked mighty thin, not many press, and the
Cuban-Yanquis in attendance looked very downbeat and deadpan. They were
giving Bush that old fish-eye he gets everywhere these days as he made
his non-announcements. They're already damn pissed at him, no matter
what their politics, that they can't go visit Aunt Ileana whenever
they like, and that they cannot send their own families money when
they want to. Bush lives with picture of a fantasy Cuba alongside
his fantasy Iraq. "Growing Dissident movements." and so forth.  

Then, a face-off between Peter Kornbluh of the National Security
Archives and the dreadful hardline right-winger Roger Noriega (former
Bush Assistance Secy of State for Western Hemispheric Affairs, now
safely in a post-Bush job at the American Enterprise Institute)
in a very mild-mannered debate about Bush's non-plan. Bush's big Cuba
expert, the gusano Noriega, said -- not once, but twice -- that there
are 7 million Cubans who are prisoners of tyranny on Fidel's Red
Prison island (where as we all know the barbed wire grows out of the
sea all along the shore).  Peter Kornbluh either missed it, or was
charitable enough not to ask him how come the other 4 million Cubans
are free. (The population of Cuba is 11 million.)

As noted, it was a very mild-mannered debate. Kornbluh simply said,
the "transition" has been accomplished already. There is no uprising,
there are no "dissident movements" (unless you count the dozen or
so silly "ladies in white" who march around on Sundays outside the
cathedral in Havana there is no rejection of the revolution, and the
"embargo" is doing exactly the reverse of what Bush says he wants: more
US influence.

Noriega painted a picture of these oppressed Cubans (all 7 million, I
guess) as "listening at great risk to the President's
message."  [Can't you just see those old Radio Free Europe commercials
with the whoo-eee static and the hunched over Captive Nations family
straining to hear every word?] Bullshit... they're all working in
places where CNN is available with 108 other channels by satellite, or
they're pirating soap operas and other satellite crap on their own TVs
at home. 

Noriega also gave special mention to those who have chosen "Freedom"
and are helping the US, like the Czech Republic, and Poland. Given the
election results in Poland, he's a bit out of date there, too. Who
knows if Bush will even get the Marshall Islands this time.  He will
probably get the Czechered gusanos to vote with him.

Bush's Points: 1) He wants the Coalition of the Spiteful to help
fund "more internet access for students." (Huh?) -- He's going to lay
more cable between Miami and Cuba? Or pay for the cable the Cubans
are already planning with Venezuela? Doesn't he know they have
internet at Cuban universities? They even have computers down there,
dunderhead.)  

2) College scholarships for needy Cuban youth in Latin American Schools
(HUH?) -- every Cuban who wants it already gets free education through
college and beyond! They're giving the rest of the third world free
scholarships, President Meat-head, including 100 poor Yanquis in
medical school at ELAM in Cuba. And there was a third, that I've
already forgotten. 

At least this year Bush didn't say the benevolent USA would give
Cuban children vaccinations. Chuckle. Someone must have told him they
have those in Cuba, too. 

It didn't work, George. No one believes a word you say about Cuba, and
as for the rest of your miserable failures, everyone still knows that
you're losing the war in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and that you were
warned months ago about the poor fire-fighting preparations in
California, and the economy is crashing, and the dollar's in the
toilet, and that you are a psychopathic war criminal who orders torture
and has made an enemy of 90% of the rest of the world who didn't already
hate Amerika.  Score another big Flop for the Liar in Chief.

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