UN Votes Overwhelmingly Against Cuban Embargo

[guajira]

Didn't B* use the excuse to invade Iraq that Saddam ignored UN Resolutions??? The US has done it every year for 13 years!!

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Friends and adversaries of the United States voted overwhelmingly in the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday against the four-decade-old American economic, financial and commercial embargo against Cuba.

The vote, conducted for the 13th consecutive year, was a lopsided 179 to 4 with one abstention on the resolution opposing the embargo. The United States, Israel, Palau and the Marshall Islands voted "no" and Micronesia abstained.

Cuba has been under a U.S. trade and travel embargo since Fidel Castro (news - web sites) defeated a CIA (news - web sites)-backed assault at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. In subsequent years, some foreign firms have been threatened with penalties for dealing with Cuba.

"The U.S. government has unleashed a world wide genocidal economic war against Cuba," said Havana's foreign minister, Felipe Perez Roque, the only speaker warmly applauded.
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[Moderator]

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[Jacobin]

2. So, now our allies are:

Israel, Palau and the Marshall Islands. Micronesia hasn't gotten its check yet, but will change from "abstain" to "against" when the check clears.

Doesn't anyone in this country or in congress 'get it'?

Does the handwriting on the wall have to be blood from innocents?

:grr:

[guajira]

3. And Israel has Businesses in Cuba

So obviously they don't really support the Cuban embargo!

But like you say, they do get the checks!

[Jacobin]

4. I didn't know that, but should have guessed it

Israel is exempt from the embargo on Cuba? We don't jump Israel's shit for doing business with Cuba?

I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!!!

[Judi Lynn]

5. Well, now, this IS significant, isn't it?

_Bush's administration has been able to influence Palau to throw in with them, and with Israel, and the Marshall Islands in support the U.S. embargo on Cuba, and has prevailed in getting Micronesia to abstain from condemning the embargo.

I wonder if Palau, the Marshall Islands, and Micronesia are doing their part in sending troops with Coalition of the Willing to Iraq?

This must be a day _Bush is celebrating with his radical right-wing extremist friends in Miami. Quite the victory:

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Friends and adversaries of the United States voted overwhelmingly in the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday against the four-decade-old American economic, financial and commercial embargo against Cuba.

The vote, conducted for the 13th consecutive year, was a lopsided 179 to 4 with one abstention on the resolution opposing the embargo. The United States, Israel, Palau and the Marshall Islands voted "no" and Micronesia abstained.
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Par-tay!

[Judi Lynn]

6. U.N. embargo condemnation kick!

center photo, 1935 Cuba

[IChing]

7. State Department Responce must read.

Echos of Orwell

"The Cuban government is not a victim as it contends. Rather it is a tyrant, aggressively punishing anyone who dares to have a differing opinion," said Oliver Garza, a State Department adviser.

[funnymanpants]

8. Technically speaking, not a UN violation

General Council Resolutions have no legal standing. If they did, Israel would not have violated over 70 UN resoutions, but probably more like 500.

Only Security Council Resolutins are legally binding.

Still, I'm glad to see that the UN voted this way, and yes, it does show the US hypocrisy towards the UN.

[IChing]

9. our country's answer

"The Cuban government is not a victim as it contends. Rather it is a tyrant, aggressively punishing anyone who dares to have a differing opinion," said Oliver Garza, a State Department adviser.

typical repug responce.