doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Fidel is finally "good."

As you know, there are so few verifiable facts that have come out of cuba in the last sixty year. Best bet are eye witness accounts. Birth certificates, travel documents, etc. give an idea if someone might been placed at any of these events that become legend. Did ole George have a tail wind?

How about "For sale, well-used combat uniform worn by revolutionary who wrested his country from brutal control with a few hundred patriots, defied the strongest country in the world for 60 years, defeated US-sanctioned invasion, forced US to take missiles out of Turkey, sent 20,000 troops to liberate African countries, established fastest growing health and education infrastructure on the hemisphere, died with boots on."

Okay, okay, he was a murderer, as James says. There's always a lot of blood around in throwing out dictators, making countries, although Castro's were negligible compared to two US civil wars, the latter comparable to its losses during two world wars, and not counting the 60,000-plus US dead "liberating" Vietnam and Iraq from despots.

And invented Castro oil...

King, where have you been? Deep in mourning? Finally able to get a grip on yourself as one of the last Stalinist type tyrants finally kicks the bucket? I expected a post like that much earlier in the thread. You seem to forget the Soviets had quite a hand in what happened in Cuba during the Cold War. That's OK, are you going to be part of Trudeau's entourage at the funeral?

Of course, we can't go to Cuban newspapers or books to counter the list of accomplisments you state he made. Because he censored all of them. But still, a few negative facts leaked out. You made no mention of the fact that Castro ruled by fiat? That he imprisoned tens of thousands for disagreeing with him or his various beliefs? How about the fact that he almost started a nuclear WWIII?

Sure is handy, having the power of life and death, having the power of imprisonment or pardon over journalists, authors, and taxi drivers. I mean, handy if you are a dictator.

Come on Man, ask the people that fled Cuba and their opinion of this so called educational and health system. Their opinion should hold a whole lot more weight than the occasional visitor that is getting the typical 'celebrity' treatment by those thugs, the Castro brothers. Don't you think?

Might want to look at Miami because the last time I looked they're still celebrating because of his death.

Those are just the evil capitalist pigs and their descendants who were the destructive parasites on the glorious and peace-loving Cuban people. Fidel, the Great Leader and father of Cuba wisely cleansed those counterrevolutionaries, economic wreckers and exploiters of workers from Cuban Society. Cuba should be an example for the world!

Stan, the US pushed missiles right up to Soviet borders, threatening as it is doing now against its pledges with NATO not to. Soviet tit-for-tat sent Migs and missiles to Cuba, the other way around. The tinder-point was right off your East Coast, wet down by Soviet withdrawing missiles and secret-kept-from-Americans for years that the stand-down involved US taking its missiles out of Turkey.

On the point of ruling by fiat, Americans currently disgusted with their governance made a successful campaign to get rid of all the unrepresentative apparatus in Washington, to drain the swamp, to start all over again with their declared wrecker of no experience in public office, the military, trade or foreign affairs, chancing rule by continuous fiat they voted to change. Canada's last federal election was in part against one-man rule. We'll wait and see, too.

Hmmm, which party was it that refused to give up Slavery and caused the Civil War? Which party refused to honor the Paris peace accords and support Vietnam when the North launched their 1975 offensive? Which party pulled out of Iraq for purely political purposes resulting in the creation of Isis and the division of Iraq along ethnic lines? True history is sometimes a brutal thing.

King, are you talking about Obama again? The poster boy (along with Trudeau) for No Experience Necessary!

And, if I have this straight.....one man rule America and Canada bad....one man rule Cuba good? Nothing like covering the bases!