Get the Marines ready. Oil in Cuba.

[Dr.Phool]

MSNBC Poll says 77% say end the embargo. It hasn't accomplished anything in 45 years anyway.

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

[McCamy Taylor]

1. Too late for the marines. Cuba has Spain, Canada, China with them

This great news for Cuba. Hope the Everglades survive. This could spell the end of the Bush family's domination of Florida politics.

[AusGail]

2. You would think that stupid embargo would have ended

when the "cold war" ended. I could never understand how America could trade with China or Russia and ignore Cuba. Do you think the US is still embarrassed about the Bay of Pigs incident. Anyway, all credit to the Cubans for sticking it out as long as they have.

[cigsandcoffee]

3. Cuba needs some kind of overhaul.

It must be boring as hell to have the same bearded leader for a hundred years, or however long Castro has been around.

[AusGail]

4. I'd prefer him to Bush and in my case, sniveler, nerdy Howard

[cigsandcoffee]

5. Say that after looking at him for 30 years

It would drive me bananas, and make me feel like I lived under a dictatorship.

[AusGail]

6. Maybe I was being a tad facetious

but Howard's no pretty sight and he's been in politics for 32 years. Also, please don't mention bananas. We had a major cyclone in northern Queensland and it wiped out most of Australia's bananas. They now cost about $13 a kilo, and I'm going through withdrawal.

[cigsandcoffee]

7. That's alright, me too. Castro has been in power for 47 years.

That's a bummer about your bananas, but living in Florida, I'm trying to avoid any discussion of hurricaine/cyclone related material. We still have a while left to go in the season.

[oneold1-4u]

8. For many people

Castro and Communism was better than being just a slave state to all US owned businesses in Cuba.

[cigsandcoffee]

11. Even now, 47 years later?

Doesn't that kind of make him a dictator, or are you OK with what you appear to think is the benevolent kind?

[madrchsod]

9. unless the usa decides to carpet bomb cuba

i think the marines wouldn`t make it to far into cuba. the cuban soldiers are a dam fine group of soldiers and they will be fighting for their country which are two things that spell disaster for a beach landing.

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. Rhetoric against cuba was heating up three years ago.

Now, they're just waiting for Castro to kick off. The military plan is all ready; No doubt, Bush will be giving the thumbsup as soon as Castro's in his last throes.