Snowdon is a dummy

I have always agreed with your comments about US aggression/ interference/ threats, JTT.

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1. We don't like Communist governments, we don't like Cuba's part in the Cuban missile crisis, and we don't like many other things about the Cuban government. Therefore, we choose not to trade with them, which is our right. Toner is obviously just a diplomat making the type of typical BS statements that diplomats make, hardly an example of massive wrongdoing.
2. I agree with you completely about Snowden. In my book, he's a hero.

1. What difference could it or does it possibly make to you what type of government another country has? It's all about the bucks, so if there's trade, there's money. And you're dealing with China, aren't you? And Russia. Get off the pot.

2. You don't like Cuba's part in its own Cuban Missile Crisis??? What the hell did you think they were going to do?

3. You didn't 'choose' not to trade with them. The US instituted the embargo in 1960 when Cuba nationalized all US-owned properties, before the Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis. After the Crisis, it enlarged the embargo.

Secrets released en masse without any context are not helpful to anyone.

My question to you: how many times will you need to mention JPB's backhanded compliment?

It's an eccentricity of mine that I dislike people who try to facilitate my death. Sorry.

Didn't you know that in the US, the government serves the peoples' will?

But I do care. For many years, the Capitalist and Communist countries were competing spheres of influence in the world. I don't like the way the Communist governments behaved then or behave now.

I did choose not to trade with them. Didn't you know that in the US, the government serves the peoples' will? I voted for a series of political candidates none of whom, to my knowledge, wanted to lift the embargo without a change in behavior by Cuba.

We may trade or not trade with whom we please.

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I did choose not to trade with them. Didn't you know that in the US, the government serves the peoples' will? I voted for a series of political candidates none of whom, to my knowledge, wanted to lift the embargo without a change in behavior by Cuba.

Please don't limit your hypocrisy to Cuba, Brandon.

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We may trade or not trade with whom we please.

What you're saying is the US should not be forced to trade with anyone. Is that correct?

1. What hypocrisy? When did I say one thing, but do another?

2. Correct. We may trade with whom we please.

And I started earlier

Why do all of you feed this guy? Over and over and over?

"Supreme Court Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in United States v. Schwimmer. Holmes wrote that "if there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought—not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_for_the_Thought_That_We_Hate

He's a down-home kind of guy that seems to have garnered the interest and respect of people at home and abroad.

And I don't believe we're educating Brandon! If he read what you and I cut and pasted, he'd close his mind and just come up with more arguments. C'est la vie.

There must be a better way. More universal, less confrontational.

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1. What hypocrisy? When did I say one thing, but do another?

You've completely ignored China and Vietnam. You almost certainly daily buy products from both countries and even you are as "pure a patriot" as you pretend, some 300+ million Americans buy from those two communist countries.

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2. Correct. We may trade with whom we please.

Have you ever heard of the Black ships? Have you ever heard of "gunboat diplomacy"?

Do you not know that the US has invaded countries at least 200 times to force those countries to the will of the US, which, for the most part, hasn't been to simply to force trade. It has been done to steal the wealth of those countries by sticking in the US's dictator du jour.

That is what the US did to Cuba for many many years, 1898 to 1959[?] turning Cuba into a US mobsters' private Las Vegas and the people into slaves and prostitutes.

Until Castro threw out the US criminals and offered to his people hope, decency, education that is world renowned, a medical system that is to many and posibly could and would be the envy of the world if the US didn't use it gunboat diplomacy to prevent Cuba from being all that it could be.

Do you have any idea what lengths the US went to to punish Vietnam for only wanting the same thing y'all love to brag about obtaining from the evil Brits?

I don't like the fact that China and Vietnam are Communist dictatorships either. With Cuba, the combination of being a Communist dictatorship, being an accessory to the pointing of nuclear missiles at us right off our shores, executing political prisoners, etc. makes them a government I don't like. I'm also not thrilled that a government I dislike a lot is very close. It is sufficient for me to approve of an embargo. Are there other governments I dislike as much that we don't embargo? Sure, but I don't face the choice of embargoing every country in the world I dislike or none. Embargoing several but not all is fine with me.