The WMDs excuse didn’t pan out with Iraq, so we turned this into a War of Liberation. If liberation is going to be an objective for invading other countries, why not start with oppression in our Hemisphere? Cuba is only 90 miles away, and they’ve been under a brutal dictatorship for a longer time period than Iraq has been under Saddam.
Why not?
Who is to say we won’t?
I think we should do it just to piss off Michael Moore. Hey, who needs political freedom and human rights when you’ve got free health care?
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My state had a universal health care measure last year, which I voted for, but sadly it went down in defeat. 
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Yes, I can see the US is getting the hang of this invading business. There must be dozens of countries that don’t come up to scratch and could do with a good invading. You could start first with Grenada- oh no, you’ve done that one.
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Actually, we tried it in April '61. Didn’t work.
Apparently, we’ve tried the old ‘exploding cigar’ trick on Uncle Fidel a few times as well. Didn’t work.
Oh, well, as they say, if it doesn’t work try a bigger hammer…
I don’t really go to bed at night worrying that Cuba is going to produce weapons of mass destruction.
They produce great cigars and pitchers though.
In part, because unlike Iraq, there is a fairly large group of industries and commercial concerns that want to see an intact Cuba not under the embargo.
A Cuba that is free to sell its cigars, coffee and sugar in return for US goods WITHOUT USAID contracts getting in the way is what these corporations want.
Likewise, the US travel industry wants a Cuba that’s eager for our dollars, not ready to shoot us.
…and korea, and africa, and china, and all the other arab dictator led countries, etc.
If liberation is the goal, then why just Iraq?
Why not try cuba again? We did try twice with Iraq.
We have even more reason to go into cuba, because cuba nationalized American property and did not pay us back for it.
There was a time when cuba did send insurgents to other countries trying to cause trouble and disorder in other countries.
Physician, heal thyself.
Square peg, round hole.
Cuba could also fire weapons at Miami, right?
I’d love for ANYONE to show me just when THE goal for invading Iraq was only to liberate the Iraqi people.
Because that is a blatantly incorrect assertation, and is sheer ignorance in the face of what has been going on.
Calm down, man. The Bush folks have a whole list to finish before they get to Cuba. Syria, Iran, North Korea, Philipines, might as well clean up Afghanistan, etc. Cuba is near the bottom because we’ve already tried and failed miserably at liberating them.
If for some reason Bush makes a hobby of becoming an International Liberator maybe we’ll see Cuba liberated. It’s doubtful though.
All the better.
Oh god…you know, if we went to Cuba, we’d REALLY prove ourselves to be a bunch of assholes!
Sheesh!
Who’s “we”? In 61, some Cuban dissidents who happened to be living in the US happened to get their hands on some American weapons, and they (unsuccessfully) tried to remove Castro from power. You wouldn’t be trying to suggest that the US had something to do with this, would you?
Seriously though, the reason this failed was that the US insisted on having plausible deniability. If the US made an overt invasion, I don’t see much chance of it failing.
“The WMDs excuse didn’t pan out with Iraq”
You start with an incorrect premise. Give the military a few months at least before you go running off that there are no WMDs.
As others have said, liberation is a secondary benefit. And even if it were primary, what makes you think we’d have to liberate every oppressed country before we could liberate one?
I’m glad your not my doctor. “Sorry, I can’t heal you since I would have to then heal everyone else in the world. And since I can’t do that, then you’ll just have to suffer”.
The US gets to complain about Cuba nationalization as soon as they give back land to Loyalists they expelled after the Revolutionary War. Not to mention the Natives, who’ve been screwed over by everyone who could.
We have always been at war to liberate the people of Eurasia.
We have never been at war to prevent Eurasia from using its weapons of mass destruction.
Any more questions?