Castro had chased the mafia out of Havana in 1959 along with the other capitalists. As a result, some of America’s most notorious criminals were pleased to cooperate with their government in disposing of Cuba’s comandante. The CIA viewed Sam Giancana, the mob boss of Chicago, and Santo Trafficante, the mafia chieftain of Miami and formerly of Cuba, as “businessmen with interests in Cuba who saw the elimination of Castro as the first essential step to the recovery of their investments.” The attorney general saw them as two of the most dangerous men in the country and put them on his ten most-wanted list. In one of many ironies, the FBI was hunting them down while the CIA was hiring them to commit crimes.

I especially like the first and last sentences of this paragraphy. For elucidation sake, “Castro had chased the mafia out of Havana in 1959… the FBI was hunting them down while the CIA was hiring them to commit crimes.”

Castro is still alive, still basically in control, still has no mafia on his island. WE still have mafia. Why is this dude the bad guy again? Yeah yeah, imprisoned political dissenters, we do the same, big deal. (Sure, our ‘political dissenters’ have ‘broken laws’ and thus ‘deserve’ to be in jail… why is our excuse better than his again? Not to mention the innocents we imprisoned in our War of Terror)

Well, anyway, thank science that Obama can read and knows his history. I just hope he doesn’t get pulled astray like JFK.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 at 09:19.