Cubans walk out during Bush U.N. speech

[JABOOM]

Cubans walk out during Bush U.N. speech

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UNITED NATIONS - Cuba's foreign minister walked out of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday in protest of President Bush's speech in which he said the "long rule of a cruel dictator is nearing its end" on the communist island.

The Cuban delegation issued a statement saying the decision by Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque to leave was a "sign of profound rejection of the arrogant and mediocre statement by President Bush."

In his speech, Bush looked ahead to a Cuba no longer ruled by Fidel Castro, the ailing 81-year-old leader who has not appeared in public in more than a year, since ceding power to a provisional government headed by his brother Raul.

"In Cuba, the long rule of a cruel dictator is nearing its end," Bush said. "The Cuban people are ready for their freedom. And as that nation enters a period of transition, the United Nations must insist on free speech, free assembly and, ultimately, free and competitive elections."

Cuba's U.N. Mission said the American president had no moral standing to criticize anyone.

It accused Bush of responsibility "for the murder of over 600,000 civilians in Iraq" and for "the torture of prisoners" at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where more than 300 men are being held on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida or the Taliban.

"He is a criminal and has no moral authority or credibility to judge any other country," the mission's statement said. "Cuba condemns and rejects every letter of his infamous tirade."

[jacqui]

I actually heard a reporter here in Chicago talk about how classless the Cubans were in walking out when Bush spoke, however, her clueless hypocritical *** said how America should be proud of the delegates who got up and left when the Iranian President spoke.

Utter amazing

[JABOOM]

Originally Posted by jacqui

I actually heard a reporter here in Chicago talk about how classless the Cubans were in walking out when Bush spoke, however, her clueless hypocritical *** said how America should be proud of the delegates who got up and left when the Iranian President spoke.

Uttering amazing

That is very funny.......and that shows the racist views of the Amerikkkan media

[Baba Ahmed]

Polite reminder: a characteristic of a thorough EuroCentric mind is hypocrisy! HisStorically. So should we be surprised? I say to many of my Continental, South Amerikkkan, Central Amerikkan and Caribbean sistas and bruths: if anybody knows this animal we do. We live and have been living in da belly of THE BEAST. "Jonah's Whale?"