Cuba - US sanctions and Afghani prisoners

[revolutionary]

Does anyone know why Cuba let the US put the Afghani terrorists in the US base in Guantanomo Bay. I would have though that Cuba would be against helping the US especially when they condemned the bombing of Afghanistan. I heard that US dropped trade sanctions against Cuba because Cuba let them take the prisoners there? Does anyone know any facts about it?

Also why has Cuba let the US have a base in Guantanomo Bay?

America clearly took the prisonors to Cuba so they were not under the Geneva convention, and then exploted the prisonors human rights, giving them the name of 'unlawful combattants' so that they can do what they like. And coz its america they CAN do what ever they like.

GOD I HATE AMERICA

[Zippy]

Quote: from revolutionary on 8:51 pm on Jan. 19, 2002
GOD I HATE AMERICA
If you say that too loud you'll end up in a cage aswell. ;)

Zippy.

[Valkyrie]

The US had leased Guantanamo Base from Cuba since the 1890's, during the Spanish-American War. (the terms of the lease are something like for the lifetime of the planet) Castro would like to have Guantanamo back and does not approve of the Afghani prisoners being held there. Also during the 1980's, Aids patients who entered illegally into the US were held there too.

[Valkyrie]

Actually, apparently, while watching the news, a journalist got an interview with the elusive Raul Castro, and he said they are cooperating with the United States in regard to holding alleged Afghani Prisoners. hmmmm.

[Dreadnaht1]

Let's look at the circumstances. If Cuba, the only remaining communist nation left on the planet, decides to be uncooperative with the U$A, the center of everything evil in the world, then we could only imagine their would be an incentive to overthrow the Castro regime. Let me restate that, their would be a stronger incentive to overthrow the Castro regime. And if the Castro regime decided to offer resistance there too I would think that the U$A would do something crazy like...hmmm....maybe drop Daizy Cutter bombs on it!!!! The U$A has shown us in this recent 'war on terrorism' that it's capable of bombing a nation into oblivion without a whim of care. Imagine the terror the Cuban peope would experience! And as beutiful as the Cuban nation is and as rich a history as Cuba has I would probobly commit suicide if the U$A made an attempt to bomb it. I would commit suicide by an assasination attempt on the president anyway. Pretzil anyone?

-Dread

FUCK U$A

(Edited by Dreadnaht1 at 1:32 am on Jan. 20, 2002)

[Derar]

Also this is a good topic to discuss , but the real issue is how the Americans r treating the war prisoners !
they r not treating them like war prisoners , they r treating them like slaves !
When the press asked that shithead rumsfeld why they r not treated well like the geneve convention rules , he said that they r not war prisoners !!!! wtf ?!
also in early interviews during the bombing of afganistan , he said in a statement that they ( the prisoners ) should be killed !
This Dectator bullshit government bends the rules , to what it likes !! lots of human rights organizations r complaining , but their voice isnt that loud enough to embaress the US ......

here is an article i read from the guardian :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,...,634703,00.html (http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,634703,00.html)

As they say , history repeats itself ....... we r now witnessing the new facsist country in its peak ..... The new Hitler !!

[Dreadnaht1]

No, there's nothing new about U$A's brand of fascism. It's been around since it's founding, beginning with the slaughter and genocide of all the native Americans who lived here. They were the first to witness the new sound of American Capitalism. And it might have changed on the outside but underneath it's the same as always. The new sound is just like the old sound. So now we can only state that the new things in America (new as in the last 50 years) would be the fact that it's imperialized the western hemisphere and become an empire--literally. Get out a dictionary and look up empire and then tell me that the U$A doesn't fall directly into that defenition. Then look up emperor, tyrant, and dictator and tell me that the president is neither of those things. Democracy my ass.

-Dread

[revolutionary]

Dreadnaht1 is right, but i don't think this is new capitialism from USA. It has always been the same right winged shithole. But coz the sept. 11 was the first of its kind USA made up the rules to take action and this time their not doing it secretly, supportiing dictators or supplying armes and getting results over years. This time they did it in the open. But i do think they are coming closer to fascism.

There is only one good fascist and thats a dead fascist!