Cuban oil renews embargo debate

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14095881/

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It has cost America little strategically or economically.

Until now, that is.

From here on out, say a growing chorus of experts, America will pay a price for maintaining its 45-year trade ban with the communist nation — a strategic and economic price that will have negative repercussions for the United States in the decades to come.

What has changed the equation?

Oil.

To be more specific, recent, sizable discoveries of it in the North Cuba Basin — deep-water fields that have already drawn the interest of companies from China, India, Norway, Spain, Canada, Venezuela and Brazil.

[Robbien]

1. Too little, too late

In matters of its new crude, Cuba would rather deal with anyone other than any US company.

[Yupster]

8. Does Cuba drill offshore?

Will spills wash up onto the USA?

[IndianaGreen]

2. Gawd has given Cuba oil, and us the finger!

Biblical nonsense is a two-edge sword! :P

I expect a new charge that Cuba has WMDs from that Nazi tart, Condi Rice.

[killbotfactory]

3. Didn't the Bush administration try to claim they were developing wmds?

Yes... yes they did.

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Bolton stated, "The United States believes that Cuba has at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort. Cuba has provided dual-use biotechnology to other rogue states." These remarks repeat, word for word, allegations made in congressional testimony in March by Carl Ford, undersecretary of state for intelligence and research.

http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?documentid=1094&programID=76&from_page=../friendlyversion/printversion.cfm

Surprise, it was Bolton.

[Mika]

4. It has cost America little strategically or economically??

Tell that to the American farmers who lost many billions of dollars on sales to Cuba over the last 45 years.

Tell that to the American taxpayers who, in their name, have spent billions of dollars to illegally subvert a sovereign nation.

Tell that to the nations who vote against the US EVERY YEAR in near unanimous votes against the embargo on Cuba.


What a bunch of crap.

[robcon]

5. That oil doesn't matter

If we can live without the ENORMOUS quantities of Iranian oil, Cuba will not make any difference.

[jwirr]

6. But it will to *ss and his oil profiteers.

[krkaufman]

9. Exactly. Just watch how quickly the embargo is lifted ...

... if there are oil profits to be had.

[Judi Lynn]

7. It seems you've missed the idea here.

American oil producers are interested in that Cuban oil.