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Caribbean
"Bush wants to kill me!"
2004-01-30
Fidel Castro hysterically accused U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday of plotting with Miami exiles to kill him as part of his administration’s hardening policies against the communist-run island. ’’We know that Mr. Bush has committed himself to the mafia ... to assassinate me,’’ the Cuban president said, using the term commonly employed here to describe anti-Castro Cuban Americans. Castro’s comments came at the end of a long-winded 5Âœ hour speech that began Thursday night and continued into early Friday at the closing of a conference bringing together activists across the region who oppose the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
I’ll bet a lot of them were thinking they’d be dead before he finished.
The Cuban leader didn’t back up his accusations with specific details.
"There are plots to kill me!"
"What kind of plots?"
"Deep plots!"
Castro also criticized the Bush administration’s Commission for a Free Cuba -- a panel set up last October and headed by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. When Bush announced the commission last October, Powell suggested that the goal is not to ease Castro out but to plan a strategy for Cuba once the 77-year-old leader is no longer in power.
Like who gets the major league league baseball team in Havana.
’’I can die a natural death or I can die a planned death,’’ Castro said. ``It really doesn’t matter to me how I die, but I will surely die fighting.’’
Just hurry up and die, please.
Posted by:Steve

#11  Don't flatter yourself, asshole. If Bush wanted to kill your sorry ass, you'd be DEAD.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-1-30 10:25:05 PM  

#10  not likely faisel, but we may leave him in pieces.......
Posted by: Jarhead   2004-1-30 9:48:16 PM  

#9  Good Heavens! I'm agreeing with Faisal! BTW heathens don't capitalized Hey Zeus.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-1-30 7:11:42 PM  

#8  " This tastes funny. I must have been poisoned!"
" It tastes funny because you're eating your beard. "
" Which has been poisoned! "
Posted by: Charles   2004-1-30 7:10:28 PM  

#7  Luckily ol' Rob REDford is on hand in Cuba to talk about the Good Old Days of La Revolucion and cry in their beer about missing che guevera. Still a few old-school commies around to stroke the dictator's ego.
Posted by: 4thInfVet   2004-1-30 7:01:07 PM  

#6  Yankees leave castro in peace for Christ sake. Suckers.
Posted by: Faisal   2004-1-30 5:55:20 PM  

#5  I didn't know Castro was running on the Democratic Ticket! He sure sounds like one of them. Did Fidel also know that the Vice-Prez went over to the CIA several times after 9/11? Must have been when they hatched the plot to: A) Kill Castro, B) Invade Iraq, C) Stifle Civil liberties, D) Enrich Haliburton, or E) All of the above. Does anyone know what medication they are missing? Can we take up a collection and get him and the DNC some?
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2004-1-30 5:21:17 PM  

#4   Poor Fidel.No Hollywood celebs visiting,no Democratic activists dropping by,no more Russian money,nobody from Africa singing your praises,Europe has forgotten you,and now,insult of insults,Washington is ignoring you(think about it-how many times does Cuba come up when they're briefing the President on the WOT or Korea).Just how irrelevent has Castro become?The US is detaining prisoners at a base on Cuban soil and there have not been any interviews w/Castro asking for his opinion on this or any other aspect of the WOT.Sorry Fidel,when Pres.Bush hears Castro mentioned,he's trying to remember if he's a second baseman or shortstop,not some scheme to have you killed.
Posted by: Stephen   2004-1-30 5:20:50 PM  

#3  It is true. The CIA offered me some money, but I'm holding for a better price.
Posted by: Sorge   2004-1-30 2:54:34 PM  

#2  "Bush wants to kill me!"

This is something that bin Laden should be complaining about.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-1-30 2:25:51 PM  

#1  Jeeez! Fidel says people want to kill him like it's a bad thing! Can't help it if Castro and Cuba are on President Bush's 'Things To Do' List!... Nice Fisking, BTW!
Posted by: Jack Deth   2004-1-30 1:32:39 PM  

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