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flamingdem

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3. It's amazing how few people benefit off the embargo

Reply to rustydog (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 11:19 PM

Jan 2013

vs how many would benefit, such as US farmers, if it were lifted.

Too bad for Cuba that they don't have oil or we'd be over there making friends or .. well let's hope it would be friendly anyway!

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Chuck Hagel + Kerry = Buh Bye Embargo [View all] flamingdem Jan 2013 OP

We can't lose that embargo! shit we borrow 800-million a week from CHINA rustydog Jan 2013 #1

It's amazing how few people benefit off the embargo flamingdem Jan 2013 #3

Marco Rubio already said he won't vote for Hagel because of it--will he vote TwilightGardener Jan 2013 #2

Good question, I wonder if he has piped up about that flamingdem Jan 2013 #4

I will bet money that Rubio votes for Kerry. TwilightGardener Jan 2013 #9

I just saw a program on PBS about how Cuba has escaped some of the environmental libinnyandia Jan 2013 #5

Inadvertently they are one of the most pristine places in the Caribbean flamingdem Jan 2013 #7

Decades overdue. Get over it, and end the cold war. n/t Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2013 #6

Believe it or not Robert Menendez will make it his number 1 priority flamingdem Jan 2013 #8

Hot damn. I could forgive Hagel the sins of his past for this. Hekate Jan 2013 #10