on the recent US threats against Cuba

Diane Monaco dmonaco at pop3.utoledo.edu
Thu May 9 08:41:37 PDT 2002


At 09:35 AM 5/9/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>On Monday Undersecretary of State John Bolton gave a speech threatening
>Cuba, adding it to their "evil axis" list (wasn't there an Onion piece
>about protests from countries left off the list?). More serious than
>Michael Pugliese on Castro's position on events in Hungary in 1956 - :) i
>assume that mp is critically supportive of cuba against its deadly enemies
>but wants to keep the "critically" part of the phrase meaningful - this
>is an attempt to mobilize "war on terrorism" hysteria against Cuba. On the
>facts it is of course fullofshit.

Yes, the US government itself reported a few years ago that Cuba had limited capacity for biological warfare research. Is this designed to disrupt Jimmy Carter's historic visit to Cuba next week?

Diane



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