The world was told August 1 that Cuba’s President Fidel Castro had been hospitalized and was operated on for intestinal bleeding. But the US had been planning to intervene in Cuba for at least two weeks before Castro’s health problems were made known.
Florida’s Republican Senator Mel Martinez reported on August 2nd that he had been briefed two weeks prior by military officials. He said the US would send “special monitors and advisers to Cuba in the weeks after a full transition”. Martinez said he had confidence in the Navy and Coast Guard to “interdict vessels in the open waters between the countries” in order to “prevent Cuban-Americans from entering Cuban waters while the changes were taking shape in Havana”.
That means that all this planning and briefing was being done around July 18th. What did our State Department know on July 18th?
On August 2, Senator Martinez said he was certain Castro was already dead but he offered no details.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
What's really going on in Cuba?
Joy Tomme of Ratbang Diaries is asking what I consider to be some damned good questions:
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joe, as i speculated in my post a couple of days ago, i think the US had planned a major coup by poisoning castro, and officials were certain it would work. hence the further planning.
consider: what a clever response on the part of castro to use the medically necessary surgery as a cover, no matter whether he has survived or only been debilitated. one wonders just how long this response strategy has been in place. consider also how it stalls the US from implementing its plans, given the bad PR that would come from an essential invasion when the leader is recovering from surgery.
but then, that was the strategy with saddam hussein. a very large reason iraq was selected as a target was that - despite all the noise to the contrary - those jokers knew exactly how weakened iraq and their defenses were.
in the current case with cuba, karl needs a little victory, however smarmy, to boost the repug image for november, which looms more and more ominously, and really soon.
again, the more i ponder what is happening with regard to cuba and castro, the more i'm suspicious he was poisoned, and may or may not be dead.
although latest reports from cuba affirm that castro is alive, though not well, and will be returning to work in a few weeks.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060807/D8JB8GTG0.html
like i said before, we'll just have to wait and see on this one.
joe, as i speculated in my post a couple of days ago, i think the US had planned a major coup by poisoning castro, and officials were certain it would work. hence the further planning.
consider: what a clever response on the part of castro to use the medically necessary surgery as a cover, no matter whether he has survived or only been debilitated. one wonders just how long this response strategy has been in place. consider also how it stalls the US from implementing its plans, given the bad PR that would come from an essential invasion when the leader is recovering from surgery.
but then, that was the strategy with saddam hussein. a very large reason iraq was selected as a target was that - despite all the noise to the contrary - those jokers knew exactly how weakened iraq and their defenses were.
in the current case with cuba, karl needs a little victory, however smarmy, to boost the repug image for november, which looms more and more ominously, and really soon.
again, the more i ponder what is happening with regard to cuba and castro, the more i'm suspicious he was poisoned, and may or may not be dead.
although latest reports from cuba affirm that castro is alive, though not well, and will be returning to work in a few weeks.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060807/D8JB8GTG0.html
like i said before, we'll just have to wait and see on this one.
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