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August 29, 2004
| Kerry Pledged to be Tough on Castro

From the Miami Herald :

“I’m pretty tough on Castro, because I think he’s running one of the last vestiges of a Stalinist secret police government in the world,” Kerry told WPLG-ABC 10 reporter Michael Putney in an interview to be aired at 11:30 this morning.

Then, reaching back eight years to one of the more significant efforts to toughen sanctions on the communist island, Kerry volunteered: “And I voted for the Helms-Burton legislation to be tough on companies that deal with him.”
[…]
Kerry aides said the senator cast one of the 22 nays that day in 1996 because he disagreed with some of the final technical aspects. But, said spokesman David Wade, Kerry supported the legislation in its purer form — and voted for it months earlier.

Note that this is another story that didn’t get much publicity at the time, dated March 14.



Posted by Alan Brain at August 29, 2004 07:34 AM | TrackBack
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To paraphrase: “I voted for the Helms-Burton amendment before I voted against it.”

It is becoming pretty clear to me why so few U.S. senators are ever elected president.

Posted by: DWC [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 08:48 AM

Can you say non sequiter, boys and girls? Good. Knew you could.

Posted by: Hungry Valley [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 11:21 AM

Oh good hes tough on Castro…..Because you know castro had his men fly some planes into our civillian buildings killing thousands of innocent lives. Oh wait im thinking of al-queda…….Kerry was talking about being more sensitive with them….

I feel safer already.

Posted by: Ronin [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 03:29 PM

“he’s running one of the last vestiges of a Stalinist secret police government in the world”

At least now that we’ve taken Saddam out of circulation he is.

Posted by: submandave [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 30, 2004 04:33 PM

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