Obama removes Cuba from state sponsor of terror list

[jlprk]

The hypnosis thing is hysterical. Both at being funny and in the literal sense of the word.

Sirhan's lawyers argued in court for the hypnosis theory. You think it's funny, but they took it seriously. Look up Sirhan hypnosis in a search engine.

 

[Denny Crane]

Sirhan's lawyers argued in court for the hypnosis theory. You think it's funny, but they took it seriously. Look up Sirhan hypnosis in a search engine.

A person under hypnosis won't commit murder unless he's predisposed to commit murder.

Hysterical indeed.

http://www.livescience.com/17456-rfk-assassination-sirhan-sirhan-hypnotized.html

According to Kluft, it is not possible to hypnotize someone to do something that obviously violates their beliefs or desires. In hypnosis, though, context is everything. Say, for example, an unethical hypnotist wanted to hypnotize a suggestible vegetarian to eat a steak. If the hypnotist simply put the vegetarian into a state of hypnosis and then presented him or her with a steak, identified it as a steak, and told the person to eat it, the hypnotized vegetarian would almost certainly refuse.

 

[jlprk]

So you think that American rumors of North Korea fielding Manchurian candidates during the Korean War were just American propaganda. The pro-war types like you believed it as much as you believe in Sadaam's rape rooms. You'd have sung a different tune, had you been around then.

 

[Denny Crane]

So you think that American rumors of North Korea fielding Manchurian candidates during the Korean War were just American propaganda. The pro-war types like you believed it as much as you believe in Sadaam's rape rooms. You'd have sung a different tune, had you been around then.

No. I think aliens did it.

I don't know anything about any "rape rooms." Those weren't a compelling reason to me to take out Saddam.

 

[jlprk]

A few years ago when you and I argued that war, you cited rape rooms conspicuously, although your #1 reason was that he used the WMDs from Reagan as intended by Reagan, to kill his own people almost as much as Iranians. The U.S. disliked both Iran and Iraq and hoped they would leave each other in ruins. Sadaam was a U.S. puppet in his war with Iran and gave him WMDs, and the U.S. later used that as an excuse to crucify him. I spell it Sadaam. Looks cooler. I may make it Sadaam X.

 

[Denny Crane]

A few years ago when you and I argued that war, you cited rape rooms conspicuously, although your #1 reason was that he used the WMDs from Reagan as intended by Reagan, to kill his own people almost as much as Iranians. The U.S. disliked both Iran and Iraq and hoped they would leave each other in ruins. Sadaam was a U.S. puppet in his war with Iran and gave him WMDs, and the U.S. later used that as an excuse to crucify him. I spell it Sadaam. Looks cooler. I may make it Sadaam X.

I have mad cow, what's your excuse for the bad memory?

 

[jlprk]

Which part of established history are you disavowing now?

 

[Denny Crane]

You're all over the map and wrong about most of it.

However, I did approve of ousting Saadam for crimes against humanity. If those included "rape rooms" then that was icing on that cake. There is no doubt he gassed his own people and tortured or disappeared many citizens.

 

[jlprk]

I thought you'd say that Reagan didn't sell the WMDs to Iraq. Which is true. Reagan approved a European company to sell them to Iraq. But for 30 years, everyone has described it in a shorthand way, as Reagan sold them. So I compromised and worded it, Reagan sent them. I expected that that was what you were complaining about with the memory comment. Turned out you were just vaguely passing gas about blurry gas. You need to rise to my standards of precision instead of relying upon your foggy memories of gas.

 

[Denny Crane]

The gas used was German or Russian in design. They could tell from the soil samples and the chemical structure of the gas found in the soil.

I'm sure you think Reagan is hiding the truth about aliens, too.

The Riegle senate report (Riegle a Democrat out to get Reagan) did not find we sold Saddam (you spell it wrong) chemical WMDs. Companies did sell him precursors to biological weapons (like anthrax samples), but the inconvenient truth for you is that the WMDs used where chemical not biological.

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

Refute it, but you can't.

Here's the actual senate report:
http://moneydick.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/the_riegle_report.pdf

 

[riverman]

So what you are saying is that you disagree with the Democratic President John F Kennedy?

You must have been Republican back in the 60's

Cuba doesn't exactly have nuclear warships parked 90 miles off the coast these days y'know

 

[Denny Crane]

Cuba doesn't exactly have nuclear warships parked 90 miles off the coast these days y'know

You sure about that?

 

[riverman]

You sure about that?

I know a guy who knows a guy

 

[riverman]

I'm surprised Maris isn't in favor of this move. It could really benefit the Yankees.

 

[Denny Crane]

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/01-08-2012/121804-russia_army_base-0/

The Russian Federation has fulfilled all terms of the agreement. And even more. I shut down not only the Cuban Lourdes but also Kamran in Vietnam. I shut them down because I gave my word of honor. I, like a man, has kept my word. What have the Americans done? The Americans are not responsible for their own words. It is no secret that in recent years, the U.S. created a buffer zone around Russia, involving in this process not only the countries of Central Europe, but also the Baltic states, Ukraine and the Caucasus. The only response to this could be an asymmetric expansion of the Russian military presence abroad, particularly in Cuba. In Cuba, there are convenient bays for our reconnaissance and warships, a network of the so-called "jump airfields." With the full consent of the Cuban leadership, on May 11 of this year, our country has not only resumed work in the electronic center of Lourdes, but also placed the latest mobile strategic nuclear missiles "Oak" on the island. They did not want to do it the amicable way, now let them deal with this," Putin said.

 

[magnifier661]

Cuba doesn't exactly have nuclear warships parked 90 miles off the coast these days y'know

So what did they do with the ones they received?

 

[riverman]

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/01-08-2012/121804-russia_army_base-0/

The Russian Federation has fulfilled all terms of the agreement. And even more. I shut down not only the Cuban Lourdes but also Kamran in Vietnam. I shut them down because I gave my word of honor. I, like a man, has kept my word. What have the Americans done? The Americans are not responsible for their own words. It is no secret that in recent years, the U.S. created a buffer zone around Russia, involving in this process not only the countries of Central Europe, but also the Baltic states, Ukraine and the Caucasus. The only response to this could be an asymmetric expansion of the Russian military presence abroad, particularly in Cuba. In Cuba, there are convenient bays for our reconnaissance and warships, a network of the so-called "jump airfields." With the full consent of the Cuban leadership, on May 11 of this year, our country has not only resumed work in the electronic center of Lourdes, but also placed the latest mobile strategic nuclear missiles "Oak" on the island. They did not want to do it the amicable way, now let them deal with this," Putin said.

Putin spouts a lot of BS to prop up his image. I don't believe most of his schpiel. Cuba has nothing to gain from propping up his agenda but quite a bit to gain from opening up US trade markets

 

[riverman]

So what did they do with the ones they received?

Made steel drums for the annual calypso parade

 

[magnifier661]

Made steel drums for the annual calypso parade

and the plutonium waste? Did they feed it to the cattle?

 

[riverman]

and the plutonium waste? Did they feed it to the cattle?

They have cattle?

 

[magnifier661]

They have cattle?

You maybe onto something. They used to have a good "cattle" agriculture in cuba. With the incorporations of feeding them plutonium, their supplies deteriorated.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuba/cattle.htm