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Castro as ruthless as Hussein (Oscar Arias, Apr. 24, 2003, Miami Herald)

The Cuban regime took another disgraceful and unacceptable step when it sentenced to prison those who only attempted to defend their fundamental rights and to practice independent journalism. It was yet another example of the demented intolerance with which Fidel Castro wields his government.

The truth is that Castro is not all that different from his predecessor. His Sierra Maestra saga to overthrow dictator Fulgencio Batista turned into a betrayal of his own revolution and of an entire nation's dreams of freedom.

Castro is cut from the same cloth as Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein, two of his less-notable contemporaries, or Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner and the Somoza clan, all of them fully deserving members of the Hall of Shame. [...]

The international community must deal at once with the Cuban situation, using the tools of diplomacy -- lest the emboldened hawks in Washington decide to include Cuba in the axis of evil.

Geez. Saw that headline and started reading and couldn't believe this was the same communism-apologist nitwit who'd won a Nobel Prize, but then got to that last sentence and was reassured. Castro's as bad as Milosevic or Saddam but we should leave the Cuban people under his thumb? Posted by Orrin Judd at April 24, 2003 9:57 PM