gotta love the pettiness

[waider]

Asked if the state department wished [Castro] a speedy recovery, spokesman Richard Boucher simply replied: "No". (link)

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[suzylou.livejournal.com]

I live with perhaps the two smartest Americans I have ever met. They have an understanding of world affairs and politics, they can see Bush is the antichrist, but they had NO IDEA until we were talking last night that only the US has such huge issues with Cuba...

[kodi]

What fascinates me most is, more than the peculiar loathing the U.S. has for Cuba, the fact that the administration occasionally paints them as a global threat.

[candice.livejournal.com]

Cuba is more the sore of decades of unfinished business, we've been trying to kill dear Fidel since the sixties and not winning that game either.