Castro

[xlabrysx]

On August 30th, Fidel Castro offered to send 1,100 medical doctors with medications and diagnosis kits to provide assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina - and of the Bush administration's lack-of-a-response. Castro reiterated this offer 6 days ago, on the evening of September 2 (and increased the amount of support Cuba would send), but

Comments

[miss_elaineous]

jesus fucking christ. why does this not surprise me at all.

the thing that REALLY gets me is that all of the bad things that happen because of the "terrible dictatorship" in cuba, happen here too, just under the disguise of democracy. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. cuba has its shit together way more than we do.

[xlabrysx]

It's actually a little scary when a dictatorship is doing better for the people than our system...

[vegpunkrocker]

When I saw that in the news it puzzled me...how can the government refuse to be helped when they have such serious problems...these people clearly need medical help and are being denied of it because of some fucked up political reasoning.

[xlabrysx]

I guess this means you're not an elite oil baron who grabs every opportunity to profit - even if it is at the expense of hundreds of lives. Good news for the richies: I hear Exxon made more profit this past quarter than any corporation ever has. Wee! Let's increase more gas prices and buy up property rights to reconstruct New Orleans! Disasters are great!

No wonder George Bernard Shaw called capitalism "socialism for the rich".

[xlabrysx]

Aww... no wonder we're together.

[justcris]

OK, I don't want to piss on this, I just believe that in order to have one's criticism taken seriously, one has to at least play fair. So about the Category 5 hurricane in Cuba and no deaths thing...you have to consider something: In a country where the media is throughly controlled by the dictatorship, of course it is ideal to report that there were zero deaths. I find that one a little hard to swallow without question. Also, if a dictatorship tells you to do something, chances are you're gonna f---ing do it or else. This is a little of why I won't play the Cuba card in this blame game. Am I at least willing to admit that Castro went about it all in a way which makes Bush and the US look like a bunch of retards, of course I am. It's just kind of hard to compare Cuba's functioning to ours.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the government isn't to blame...so don't come shooting the bad comments at me. Please.

[xlabrysx]

Ack! I thought I replied to this a long ass time ago. Ahem, so here goes