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Will Age Claim Castro?

Comment by Larry Ross, December 29, 2006

Castro has done a wonderful job for the Cuban people. They know and appreciate him for it. Somehow he has dodged and/or survived the many US assassination attempts against him. Let us hope the US hasn't invented some new biochemical weapon that could be virtually undetectable and create natural-appearing deaths. Given the huge lead the US has in weapons development in many fields, one cannot logically exclude the possibility of technological advances in US  covert weaponry. Also, we cannot expect news about such hypothetical new weapons, as detection and publicity would tend to nullify the usage and effects of such weapons.

The success of a covert assassination depends on the idea that a death appears to be the result of natural causes. For example; a death from a heart attack. It might have been induced, but also it may be entirely due to natural causes. Who is to know? It is the circumstances of each case that may or may not create suspicion of dirty work. In the case of Castro we know that various US Presidents have for years, tried to covertly assassinate Castro as the article below shows. So maybe after all their previous attempts, Bush could have been the first President to succeed. We know he was trying, as indicated below. We also know that the Bush regime has killed some 655,000 people in an illegal, unjustified war based on lies. Violating the US Constitution by fraudulently deceiving your people to participate and support an illegal war is a very big crime. Do people seriously doubt that Bush, who demonstrated all the symptoms of hating Castro, would try and get him clandestinely? These are the kind of circumstances one must weigh when considering whether Castro was just naturally sick, or pushed. 

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Castro Outlives Another American President

By Alexander Zaitchik, December 27, 2006,

Admire him or despise him, it's tempting to think Fidel Castro keeps a piece of polished Cuban Mahogany in his office with, as of yesterday, six marks on it -- one for each American president he has defied and survived, beginning with Dwight Eisenhower. Every president starting with Ike has presided over plots of various levels of nefariousness against Castro's Cuba, the most notorious being the Kennedy era's botched invasions, exploding clam plots and beard-melting conspiracies. But even the more benign U.S. administrations have maintained the embargo and participated in various other forms of economic subterfuge against the hemisphere's only socialist isle.

It has long been a parlor game guessing how many of his American nemeses Castro will bury before finally going to that great sugar-cane farm in the sky. Unless Jimmy Carter chokes on a peanut or Bill Clinton gets in bed with an athletic 22-year-old, the final number looks like it is going to be six.

As he nears his own death, one wonders if the newly God-fearing Castro doesn't find less satisfaction than he used to in the passing of an American President, especially this one. Gerald Ford once called Castro an "international outlaw" and threatened "appropriate action" against Cuban troops in foreign countries, but it was also Ford who forbade government-sponsored assassinations in a landmark 1976 presidential directive. True, it was applied under enormous public and Congressional pressure led by Senator Frank Church. But it was still Ford's signature that removed the large CIA-sponsored bulls-eye from the center of Castro's forehead. The flurry of restrictions on black-ops and oversight rules signed by Ford didn't mean we stopped assisting rogue anti-Castro elements in Miami-Dade, but officially we weren't in the assassination business anymore. That was something. It was a big something, actually, and for a long time.

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Wayne Madsen: Gerald Ford Remembered

From: www.waynemadsenreport.com

December 27, 2006 -- As the nation eulogizes President Gerald R. Ford, who died last night in California, no one should lose sight of the fact that it was Ford who helped launch the careers of the two ugliest faces in the George W. Bush administration. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Cheney and Rumsfeld were deep-selected from lower-level positions in the Nixon administration and named as Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff for Ford's White House. After Rumsfeld was selected as Ford's Secretary of Defense, Cheney succeeded his longtime mentor as Chief of Staff. Rumsfeld and Cheney made it their cause to "restore" the power of Nixon's "imperial presidency" to a future Republican president. That was all but impossible under Reagan and Bush I since the entire Congress was in the hands of the Democrats for all but six years. However, Cheney and Rumsfeld succeeded in their goal under George W. Bush.

Ford with the "gruesome twosome" -- Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Ford's legacy includes propelling these future "neo-cons" to national prominence. In addition to the "gruesome twosome" of Rumsfeld and Cheney, Ford also propelled George H. W. Bush into the world of future chicanery when he named the former Texas congressman, UN ambassador, envoy to Beijing, and Republican National Committee chair as CIA Director. Bush, who only served as director for one year managed to involve the agency in a number of terrorist attacks, a direct slap at those who were trying to curb the excesses of the CIA under the Nixon administration, including outgoing director William Colby. Bush approved CIA assistance in the illegal car bombing assassination of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and his American colleague, Ronni Moffitt, on a Washington, DC street in the heart of Embassy Row. Under Ford, Bush also approved the bombing of a Cubana Airlines passenger plane off the coast of Barbados that killed over 70 men, women, and children.

Much is being made of Ford's statement in the wake of Nixon's resignation that "our long national nightmare is over." Mr. Ford's elevation of Bush, Sr., Rumsfeld, and Cheney did not end our national nightmare, it merely postponed it until January 20, 2001.