Cuba Dissidents Back Hussein Pledge
Apparently these women aren’t aware of the mindset of the people supporting Hussein …
But then, maybe they do … I mean, if we look at the “Jewish”-Americans who live in this country and are anti-Israel … Perhaps there are those in the Cuban-American Community who just don’t think the history of Cuba’s violent “revolution” was so bad after all … or that Cuba’s history since then isn’t half-bad.
Or, perhaps, they are just desperate for their family members that are being held in the filthy jails as the political prisoners who simply just don’t exist to the Cuban government, the commie-dolts in our own Congress, or the Hollywood limo-libs …
By Michael Voss - BBC:
A group of Cuban dissidents has backed a call by the US presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, for direct talks with the new Cuban President, Raul Castro.
The organisation, Women in White, is made up of female relatives of Cuban political prisoners.
In an open letter to Mr Obama they wrote of their hope that his policies may help free their husbands and sons.
Mr Obama told Cuban exiles in Miami on Friday that America needed to talk to its enemies as well as its friends.
Mr Obama also said that - if elected in November - he would lift President George Bush’s restrictions on family travel and remittances to Cuba but maintain the US trade embargo.
Applauded
The position of both Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican hopeful John McCain is that any change in policy would only benefit Cuba’s communist leaders.
The founder of Women in White, Miriam Leiva, and her recently freed dissident husband, Oscar Chepe, also wrote an open letter to Barak Obama.
They applauded his offer to allow Cuban Americans to freely visit relatives here.
They also wrote that a more creative policy could help the transition towards democracy and that the current confrontation is used by the authorities in Havana to justify their repression.
The Cuban government denies that there are any political prisoners on the island, calling them all mercenaries in the pay of the United States.
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