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2009-04-18 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Steve White 2009-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The usual liberal memory hole ignoring the overt actions of Havana to export 'revolution' [ie Communism] throughout the Caribbean and South America in the 60s and 70s. How about another body count on that one, like the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-04-18 08:16|| 2009-04-18 08:16|| Front Page Top

#2 "Failed policy" defined below:

U.S. civilian planes
shot down near Cuba
Search under way for possible survivors
February 24, 1996
Web posted at: 12:45 a.m. EST (0545 GMT)

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Two small planes operated by a Cuban-American group were shot down by Cuban fighters over the waters north of Havana and the four people on board were missing, President Clinton and the U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday.

Clinton said he had been briefed on "the shooting down Saturday in broad daylight of two American civilian airplanes by Cuban military aircraft."

"I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms," Clinton told reporters< in Seattle, Washington.

The two planes with four people on board were twin-engine Cessna aircraft operated by the group "Brothers to the Rescue," a Miami-based group of Cuban exiles funded by private donations. The group has flown hundreds of missions to spot Cuban rafters attempting to flee their island nations.

Group founder Jose Basulto was on a third plane that escaped the gunfire and returned to Miami.

Basulto said all three planes had radioed Cuban air traffic controllers to identify themselves and report their intentions to search international waters for Cuban refugees who may be on rafts.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-18 08:53|| 2009-04-18 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 To be instantly forgotten(If ever mentioned) by the MSM. (a democratic propaganda machine/arm)

Democrats are GODS, they simply don't make mistakes. (And if you find one, it's all in your imagination. LIAR.)

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-04-18 15:20|| 2009-04-18 15:20|| Front Page Top

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