Re: Castro's Medical Mercenaries


"Bob" <bob@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dm6o5l$vl1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>>>> " In the book-in-progress The Human Costs of Social Revolutions: The
>>>> Black
>>>> Book on Cuba by Dr. Armando Lago that will be published in 1999, he is
>>>> making an attempt to list Castro's deaths since 1959. With Castro in
>>>> power,
>>>> obtaining information is very difficult, but so far the deaths of
>>>> 97,000
>>>> persons have been named, each confirmed by at least two sources. Some
>>>> 30,000 executed by firing squad, 2,000 extra-judicial assassinations,
>>>> 5,000
>>>> deaths in prison due to beating by guards and denial of medical care
>>>> and
>>>> 60,000 deaths while trying to escape Cuba by sea. "
>>>> http://www.nocastro.com/archives/gohome.htm

>>> I will stick with 10,000. Sounds better to me.

>> These researchers have two sources per name.

> I don't believe either of them.

You CAN'T! If you did you'd have to admit how ASININE your ideological
belief system IS!!!!

>> What do you have?

> Well I read it in the university library 10-15 years ago and the figure
> stuck in my head. I agree that's not a very good source for anyone else
> though, but it works for me.

We all KNOW that everything in print is true don't we? I bet you
believe in Daffy Duck too because you read his comic book when you were a
kid!

>> How about all the people that died fleeing the country?

> Tough luck.

Bobby - do you ever wonder WHY people are't dying to get "IN" to
Communist countries?????? Does tyhe logic of THAT ever creep in to your
thinking anywhere? Does dawn EVER break over marblehead?

>> Don't you feel Castro is responsible?

> Not really. Shrug.

Ah it is all HALLIBURTON doing it! GOTCHYA!

>> Was Pol Pot not responsible for the death of those trying to flee?

> Is Fox not responsible for the deaths of Mexicans "trying to flee"?
> That's a little bit silly.

To some degree. But they are NOT feeling the politics of Mexico - only
its poverty. And.... BOBBY.......... Get this........... when they earn the
bucks .... MANY of them GO BACK! It's been a very long time since Mexicans
were feeling their government.




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