text: should usa invade and conquer cuba? that old rat castro is living to long and i am sick of him and his anti-american rhetoric. he is a real a threat and is breeding commies to invade us and sabotage us. the cuban exiles here want him gone. he oppresses his people. he was supposed to free them from the old regime but after 50 years he is still a dictator. why not just crush him and free his people? it would be good for business too. he once had weapons of mass destruction atomic missleds  pointed at us. who is to say he will not do that again? i say kill the commie bastard and throw out his regime and insititute a free democracy for those poor people overt here just 90 miles from usa. drop a couple of bunker bombs on his palace. he is a much bigger threat than  iraq and that osama arab guy. anti-american he is! and so are billions of other people that are sick and tired of american imperial interventions in their countries. the only threat to america is the current fascists and unthinking robtic reactionaries like yourself that are a real danger. you have been spoon fed a false image of what this country really is. castro does not nearly have as much blood on his hands as the rulers of this country have. do you remember the genocide in vietnam, cambodia, and laos (3 million dead).  what about chile and guatemala? 40,000 and over 200,000 dead respectively.   your rhetoric on this question exposes your ignorance and i surely would hate to have your ideology and beliefs. you make it seem as if you care about poor people.   you said " kill the commie bastard and throw out his regime and insititute a free democracy for those poor people over [there] just 90 miles from usa". well, the us has been toppling government to supposedly establish democracies. some examples are guatemala in 1954 and iran in 1953. these were democratic goverments the the us toppled. in their place the us installed brutal dictators that make fidel castro look like kindergarden bully! its as a result of the intervention in iran in 1953 that today we have the problem we have today with that country, which by my standards has the moral and legal right under international law to defend itself.   i will finish off here with a qoute from geogre orwells book 1984. a book applicable to the brutal regimes of stalin, hitler, and to this one! it is a qoute that perfectly describes drones like you!  "parsons was winston's fellow employee at the ministry of truth. he was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms—one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the party depended." —pg 22  mike international relations ph. d stanford univeristy  --------------------------------------------------------------------------  a response to randy's posting:  rany behind your eloquent words is really a sense od misunderstanding of the whole problem with "terrorism". you are wrong onmany points and i will focus on 2 of them.  1) you stated: "the united states has been attacked multiple times by terrorists with increasing intensity. it is the job of the federal government to ensure that such attacks come to an end."  *you imply here that the us is the victim and that it needs to carry out its wars in iraq & afganistan both as a response to 911 (& other attacks) and as a way to prevent such attacks in the future. this is wrong. attacking other countries will only inflames tensions and create more "terrorism". my claim is back by a cia report to the senate foreign relations commitee last year in which the cia itself has said that the war in iraq has increased anymosity toward the us & increased the number of terror attack worldwide. in addtion, you have to realize that is was the us that created this problem in the first place. starting in 1953 with the over throw of democratically elected prime minister mohamed mossadegh to install a brutal dictator that killed, raped, and torutred iranians. all irainians remember this. the way to end terrorism is to get out of iraq & afganistan now and stop meedling in other countries affairs!   2) you wrongfully state: "it has proceeded down this path with restraint. while other cultures have a moral foundation that allows, even dictates, targeting civilians, the united states doesn’t."  *where have you been these last few years? does your televsion only get fox news? do you only read the weekly srandard? my god!!!! have you not heard about what happened in haditha??? what about abu griab??? what about islamyia?? restraint??? in hadita, innocent women and children were dragged from their homes and shot in cold blood!!! you call th