On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 08:43:40 GMT, WaIIy
wrote:

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:33:52 -0500, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:

This restriction on the rest of the citizens of the US is strictly to
keep the Miami Cubans voting Republican. Last year when the Dubya
tightened the restrictions on the rest of us he relaxed the rules on the
Miami Cubans.

Glenn, you are usually a reasonable poster. Please don't pull a Krause
and F-Up this group too.

Can't comment much about Cuba other than as a Canadian I can tan my
white arse semi-cheaply on their beaches and enrich their crappy
economy with my three-quarter dollars. G Cuba's popular as a
destination with Canadians, but no more so than half a dozen
non-Communist Dictatorship beauty spots of the Carribean.

But this...obsession...with Cuba on the part of American governments
and Miami grandkids of Batista cronies is looking a little crazy at
this stage. U.S. governments regularly play footsie with bigger
*******s than Castro (who I am under no illusions about, by the way),
and nobody blinks.

The frankly stupid results is that U.S. boaters can't cruise some of
the nicest spots on earth and hang with the generally friendly and
arguably pretty uncorrupted Cuban people...who understand a lot more
about their farcical situation and the real nature of the Castro
regime than most outsiders suspect.

Given the choice between a home-boy dictator, literacy and rations and
foreign gangsters, ignorance and starvation, they keep going for
Castro. What fools they must be, eh?

Anyway, maybe someday Americans will be able to cut through all the BS
on the topic, visit Cuba and decide for themselves.
R.