Castro hits nail on the head: Bush is Deranged

[shemp]

Castro Blasts Bush On Sex Charges (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/27/world/main632065.shtml)

Breaking with tradition, Cuba's maximum leader Fidel Castro turned his traditional July 26 State of the Nation speech into a war of words with President Bush.

Castro devoted the bulk of his 90-minute speech to countering charges levied by Mr. Bush that his government fosters tourism prostitution and child pornography. He strongly implied that President Bush cannot distinguish between his imagination and reality.

Quoting extensively from the book "Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President" by Dr. Justin A. Frank, Castro suggested that Mr. Bush's accusations against Cuba's socialist government may be rooted in his untreated alcoholic past.

In the book, Frank, a clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center, deals with the president's admitted two-decade-long drinking problem and possible thought disorders that lead him to invent enemies so that he can destroy them.

I wonder how many countries other than the U.S. have a leader who is clearly mentally ill.

Feel free to post some solid evidence that Cuba is involved in the child prostitution trade.

[c0rbin]

Still chasing sex and cigars, eh?

Those wacky republicans.

[Tmy]

IS a 90 minute speech considered a human rights violation for the people of Cuba???


All world leaders are crazy!

[Tony]

I hate this cliché, but this is the epitome of the pot calling the kettle black.

[jj]

Originally posted by Tony
I hate this cliché, but this is the epitome of the pot calling the kettle black.

WHUMP!

Tony drives the nail all the way down to the head in one sharp, just blow.

I may disagree with you sometimes, but you nailed this one, Tony, you did indeed.

[Tony]

Originally posted by jj
WHUMP!

Tony drives the nail all the way down to the head in one sharp, just blow.

I may disagree with you sometimes, but you nailed this one, Tony, you did indeed.

Does that mean we're friends now? :) ;)

[pgwenthold]

Originally posted by Tony
I hate this cliché, but this is the epitome of the pot calling the kettle black.

I think this is a poor use of this rejoinder. The pot being black doesn't change the fact that so is the kettle.

Castro is deranged. That doesn't make Bush being deranged any less of a problem.

[jj]

Originally posted by Tony
Does that mean we're friends now? :) ;)

Doubt it, who knows, but we agree on this one at least.

Mr. Pot, Mr. Kettle, meet Mr. Scrub Brush...

[jj]

Originally posted by pgwenthold
I think this is a poor use of this rejoinder. The pot being black doesn't change the fact that so is the kettle.

Castro is deranged. That doesn't make Bush being deranged any less of a problem.

Actually, my reading of the statement suggested that they were both covered in soot, as it were, and that was bad.

The usual use of the rejoinder, at least when I use it, means that neither party has moral status to complain about the other, at least without some serious introspection.

[Tony]

Originally posted by jj
Actually, my reading of the statement suggested that they were both covered in soot, as it were, and that was bad.


That's how I meant it.

[hgc]

Originally posted by Tmy
IS a 90 minute speech considered a human rights violation for the people of Cuba???


All world leaders are crazy! That's nothing. Castro is known for giving speeches of 5 hours and more.

[fishbob]

From this story: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5526645/

Speaking to Florida law enforcement officials on July 16, Bush claimed the Cuban leader shamelessly promotes sex tourism.

“The dictator welcomes sex tourism. Here’s how he bragged about the industry,” said Bush. “This is his quote — ‘Cuba has the cleanest and most educated prostitutes in the world’ and ‘sex tourism is a vital source of hard currency.’”

Three days after Bush’s remarks, the Los Angeles Times reported that the White House found the comments in a Dartmouth undergraduate paper posted on the Internet and lifted them out of context. “It shows they didn’t read much of the article,” commented Charlie Trumbull, the author.

Speaking in 1992 to the Cuban parliament, Castro actually said, “There are prostitutes, but prostitution is not allowed in our country. There are no women forced to sell themselves to a man, to a foreigner, to a tourist.”

Misinterpreted 12 year old information. Sounds kind of like the WMDs in Iraq.

[CFLarsen]

"Even a blind chicken can find a corn"
Danish proverb.

[jj]

Originally posted by Tony
That's how I meant it.

Thought so.

[shemp]

Bush is a sick and deranged man. Years of heavy drinking have taken their toll on his brain cells. Castro, despite his own pecadillos, is right about him. Only a country with a large number of easily-led fools would elect such a man to lead it.

[crackmonkey]

Funny - you say Bush is sick and deranged, yet Casrto is merely a man with peccadilloes.
What color is the sky on your world? You must live in one of those weird, bearded-Spock kind of parallel universes...

[fishbob]

pgwenthold said:Castro is deranged. That doesn't make Bush being deranged any less of a problem.

Then Mr. Crackmonkey said:Funny - you say Bush is sick and deranged, yet Casrto is merely a man with peccadilloes.

Mr. Crackmonkey, sir - you seemed to have missed the point.

[a_unique_person]

Originally posted by fishbob
From this story: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5526645/

quote:Speaking to Florida law enforcement officials on July 16, Bush claimed the Cuban leader shamelessly promotes sex tourism.

“The dictator welcomes sex tourism. Here’s how he bragged about the industry,” said Bush. “This is his quote — ‘Cuba has the cleanest and most educated prostitutes in the world’ and ‘sex tourism is a vital source of hard currency.’”

Three days after Bush’s remarks, the Los Angeles Times reported that the White House found the comments in a Dartmouth undergraduate paper posted on the Internet and lifted them out of context. “It shows they didn’t read much of the article,” commented Charlie Trumbull, the author.

Speaking in 1992 to the Cuban parliament, Castro actually said, “There are prostitutes, but prostitution is not allowed in our country. There are no women forced to sell themselves to a man, to a foreigner, to a tourist.”




Misinterpreted 12 year old information. Sounds kind of like the WMDs in Iraq.

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