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<div align="center"><font size=3><b><i>REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN
CHIEF<br>
<br>
</i>THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE<br>
<br>
(Part One)<br>
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<br>
</b>These reflections are self-explanatory.<br>
<br>
In that already famous Super Tuesday, a day of the week when a number of
States of the Union were selecting the candidate of their choice for the
presidency of the United States from among a group of contenders, one of
the likely candidates to replace George W. Bush was John McCain. Due to
of his pre-packaged hero image, and his alliance with strong contenders
such as Rudy Giuliani, the former governor of the state of New York,
other candidates had already gladly endorsed him. The intense propaganda
of social, economic and political factors having great significance in
his country, and his personal style had turned him into the frontrunner.
Only the extreme Republican right represented by Mitt Romney and Mike
Huckabee, in disagreement with some insignificant McCain concessions, was
still offering some resistance on February 5th. Subsequently, Romney
would also withdraw in favor of McCain. Huckabee is still in the
contest.<br>
<br>
On the other hand, the struggle for the Democratic Party candidate is
much tougher. Even though we are dealing, as usual, with an active part
of the enfranchised population that tends to be a minority, we are
already hearing all kinds of opinions and speculations about the
consequences of the final outcome of the electoral battle for the country
and the world, if mankind escapes the warmongering adventures of
Bush.<br>
<br>
It is not up to me to talk about the history of a candidate for the
Presidency of the United States. I have never done so, and perhaps I
would never have. Why should I be doing it at this time?<br>
<br>
McCain has said that some of his comrades were tortured by Cuban agents
in Vietnam. His advocates and publicity experts tend to emphasize that
McCain himself suffered such torture at the hands of the Cubans.<br>
I hope that the U.S. people will understand that I consider it my
obligation to enter into a detailed analysis of this Republican candidate
and to respond to him. I shall do so on the basis of ethical
considerations.<br>
<br>
The McCain file shows that he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam from
October 26, 1967.<br>
<br>
As he tells it himself, he was 31 years old at the time and flying his
23rd bombing mission. His plane, an A-4E Skyhawk was shot down over Hanoi
by an anti-aircraft missile. Because of the hit, he lost control and
ejected over Truc Bach Lake, in the middle of the city, suffering
fractures in both arms and one knee. A patriotic crowd, seeing an
aggressor come down, gave him a hostile reception. McCain himself says he
was relieved at that moment to see the arrival of an army squad.<br>
<br>
The bombing of Vietnam, begun in 1965, shocked international opinion,
very sensitized to air attacks by the superpower against a small third
world country which had been turned into a French colony, thousands of
miles away from distant Europe. The Vietnamese people fought against
Japanese occupation forces during World War II and, when that war ended,
France once again took control. Ho Chi Minh, the modest leader who was
much loved by all, and Nguyen Giap, his military commander, were
internationally admired figures. The famous French Foreign Legion had
been defeated. In trying to avoid that, the aggressor powers were at the
point of using a nuclear weapon at Diên Biên Phu.<br>
<br>
The noble “anamitas”, as José Martí affectionately called them, holders
of millenary culture and values were portrayed, to U.S. public opinion,
as a barbarian people unworthy of existence. In terms of suspense and
commercial advertising, nobody can compete with the American specialists.
The specialty was used unrestrictedly in the case of the POWs, and
particularly in the case of McCain.<br>
<br>
Going along with that, McCain later said that the fact that his father
was an Admiral and commanded the U.S. forces in the Pacific led the
Vietnamese Resistance to offer him early liberation if he would admit
that he had committed war crimes; he refused, arguing that the Military
Code provides that prisoners be liberated in the order they were
captured, and that meant five years of prison, beatings and torture in a
prison area the Americans called the “Hanoi Hilton.”<br>
<br>
The final pull out from Vietnam was disastrous. An army which was half a
million strong, trained and armed to the teeth, could not hold back the
thrust of the Vietnamese patriots. Saigon, the colonial capital, today
called Ho Chi Minh City, was embarrassingly abandoned by the occupation
forces and their accomplices, some of them holding to helicopters. The
United States lost more than 50 thousand of their precious sons and
daughters, not counting those that were wounded. They had spent 500
billion dollars in that war without taxes, always distasteful in their
own right. Nixon unilaterally revoked the commitments of Bretton Woods
setting the foundations of today’s financial crisis. Their only
achievement was a Republican Presidential candidate 41 years later.<br>
<br>
McCain, one of the many U.S. pilots shot down and wounded in the
declared, or undeclared, wars of their country, was decorated with the
Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star
Medal and the Purple Heart.<br>
<br>
A TV movie based on his memoirs of the experiences as a POW was broadcast
on Memorial Day of 2005 and he became famous for videos and speeches on
the subject.<br>
<br>
The worst statement he made regarding our country was that Cuban
interrogators had been regularly torturing American prisoners. <br>
<br>
As a reaction to McCain’s incredible words, I became interested in the
matter. I wanted to know where such a strange legend had come from. I
asked that someone find information on the attribution. I was informed
that there was a highly promoted book which was the basis for the movie.
This was written by McCain and Mark Salter, his Senate administrative
advisor, who continues to work and write with him. I asked for it to be
translated. This was done, as on other occasions, very quickly by
qualified staff. The title of the book: <i>Faith of My Fathers, </i>349
pages, published in 1999.<br>
<br>
His accusation against internationalist Cuban revolutionaries --using the
nickname Fidel to identify one of them who was capable of “torturing a
prisoner to death”-- is totally lacking in any ethics.<br>
<br>
Allow me to remind you, Mr. McCain: The commandments of your religion
forbid you from lying. Your years in prison and the wounds you received
as a result of your attacks on Hanoi do not excuse you from the moral
duty of truth.<br>
<br>
Some facts must be brought to your attention. In Cuba, we had a rebellion
against a despot who was put into power by the United States on March 10,
1952, imposed on the Cuban people, when you were just about to turn 16
years old, and the Republican government of a celebrated soldier, Dwight
D. Eisenhower –who indeed was the first one to speak of the
industrial-military complex– immediately recognized and supported that
government. I was a bit older than you; I would have my 26 birthday that
August, the same month when you were born. Eisenhower had not yet
completed his presidential term that had begun in the 1950’s, some years
after he became famous for the allied landing in the north of France,
with the support of 10 thousand planes and the most powerful naval force
known up to that time.<br>
<br>
It was a war, formally declared by the powers fighting Hitler. The Nazis
had launched a pre-emptive attack, without warning and without any prior
declaration of war. A new style of producing great slaughters was imposed
on mankind.<br>
<br>
In 1945, two bombs of roughly 20 kilotons each were used against the
civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I once visited the first
of those cities.<br>
<br>
In the 1950’s, the government of the United States came to build such
nuclear attack weapons. One of them, the MR17, came to weigh 19.05 tons
and measured 7.49 meters; it would be carried in their bombers and would
unleash an explosion of 20 megatons, equivalent to a thousand bombs like
the one that was dropped over the first of those two cities on August 6,
1945. It is a fact that would infuriate Einstein who, in the midst of his
contradictions, would often express regret about the weapon that, without
meaning to, he helped to manufacture, with his scientific theories and
discoveries.<br>
<br>
When the Revolution triumphs in Cuba on January 1st, 1959, almost 15
years after the explosion of the first nuclear weapons, and we proclaim
an Agrarian Reform Act based on the principle of national sovereignty,
consecrated by the blood of millions of combatants who died in that war,
the United States response was a program of illegal deeds and terrorist
attacks against the Cuban people, signed by the President of the United
States himself, Dwight D. Eisenhower.<br>
<br>
The attack on the Bay of Pigs followed the exact instructions of the
President of the United States and the invaders were escorted by U.S.
naval units, including an aircraft carrier. The first air assault with
U.S. B-26 planes flying out of secret bases was a pre-emptive attack
using Cuban markings on the planes so that world opinion would see this
as a revolt by our national air force.<br>
<br>
You accuse Cuban revolutionaries of being torturers. I seriously urge you
to find a single one of the more than a thousand prisoners captured
during the Bay of Pigs fighting who had been tortured. I was there, not
in some protected position at a distant general command post. I
personally captured a number of prisoners with the help of some
assistants; I walked in front of armed squads who were still lying under
cover of the forest’s vegetation, paralyzed by the presence of the Chief
of the Revolution. I’m sorry that I have to mention this because it might
appear to be boasting, and that is something I honestly detest.<br>
<br>
The prisoners were citizens born in Cuba organized by a powerful foreign
power to fight against their own people.<br>
<br>
You have admitted that you are in favor of the death penalty for very
serious crimes. What would have you done if faced by such acts? How many
would you have sentenced for that treason? In Cuba, we tried several of
the invaders who, under Batista's orders, had previously committed
horrendous crimes against Cuban revolutionaries.<br>
<br>
I visited the mass of Bay of Pigs prisoners, --that is how you call the
Girón Beach invasion-- on more than one occasion, and I talked with them.
I like to find out man’s motives. They showed surprise and expressed
their acknowledgement of the personal respect with which they were
treated.<br>
<br>
You should know that while we were negotiating their liberation in
exchange for compensation by food and medicines for children, the U.S.
government was organizing plans to assassinate me. There is a record of
this in what was written by people taking part in the negotiation
process.<br>
<br>
I shall not go into detail about the long list of hundreds of
assassination attempts on me. None of this is made up. It has been stated
in official documents circulated by the U.S. government.<br>
<br>
What ethics underlie such deeds, vehemently defended by you as a matter
of principles?<br>
<br>
I shall attempt to delve deeper into those matters.<br>
<br>
Fidel Castro Ruz<br>
February 10, 2008.<br>
Time: 6:35 p.m.<br><br>
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</b>One of the most hostile U.S. newspapers when it comes to Cuba,
headquartered in Florida, offers the following report:<br>
<br>
“Taking advantage of the negotiations to free the Bay of Pigs’ prisoners,
the CIA tried to use a key person in the talks, American lawyer James B.
Donovan, to deliver a lethal gift to Fidel Castro: a wetsuit contaminated
with a fungus that lacerates the skin and an underwater breathing device
infected with tuberculosis...the gear in fact was given to the Cuban
leader in November 1962. <br><br>
“The revelation is one of many anecdotes in <i>After the Bay of Pigs</i>,
a book on the negotiations held between the Committee of Relatives for
the Liberation of Prisoners and Havana from April to December 1962.
<br><br>
“The 238-page book, published late last year, was written by Cuban exile
Pablo Pérez-Cisneros with businessman John B. Donovan, son of the late
negotiator, and Jeff Koenreich, a veteran member of the Red Cross who has
promoted humanitarian missions between the United States and Cuba.
<br><br>
“Pérez-Cisneros is the son of Berta Barreto de los Heros, who was
coordinator in Cuba of the Families Committee and interceded with Castro
to trade off the 1,113 prisoners from the failed April 1961 invasion.
<br><br>
“Barreto de los Heros started the book but died in March of 1993. Her
son, who spent eight years researching and finishing the book, was the
person who bought the wetsuit and scuba gear at the end of 1962, not
knowing that both were destined for Castro. <br><br>
“In June 1962, Pérez-Cisneros visited James B. Donovan's office in
Brooklyn for the first time to request his intervention in the
negotiations with Cuba. The meeting was arranged by Robert W. Kean, son
of a former congressman and brother-in-law of Joaquín Silverio, a jailed
member of Brigade 2506. Donovan agreed to work for the Families Committee
at no charge. <br><br>
“Two months later, Donovan made the first of 11 trips to Havana for
mediation with the Cuban government. <br><br>
''When Donovan returns to Cuba in October 1962, Castro tells him he wants
to have an aqualung (scuba gear) and wetsuit for diving,'' Pérez-Cisneros
told El Nuevo Herald in an interview to expand on the case. “So, Donovan
tells me he wants to get quality equipment for a person, but without
telling me they are for Castro.'' <br><br>
“Pérez-Cisneros, who had been a champion underwater spearfisherman in
Cuba, bought a $130 wetsuit and scuba equipment for $215 in a well-known
store in Times Square, New York. <br><br>
“Castro received them in November 1962, and some weeks later, on another
one of Donovan's trips, the Cuban President told the lawyer that he had
used them. <br><br>
“Only months after the negotiations had concluded did Pérez-Cisneros
learn all the details about the real story. <br><br>
“During World War II, James Donovan had worked for the Office of
Strategic Services, which preceded the CIA. He was later named one of the
prosecutors in the Nazi war-crimes trials in Nuremberg. In February 1962,
he was the chief mediator in the most spectacular spy trade of the Cold
War: the trade of Russian Col. Rudolf Abel for Americans Frederick Prior
and captured U-2 pilot Gary F. Powers. <br><br>
“When Donovan informed the CIA that Castro had requested diving
equipment, the U.S. agency said it would take care of it. But the lawyer
rejected any involvement in the proposal to contaminate the wetsuit and
scuba equipment and preferred to give Castro the equipment bought in
Times Square. <br><br>
“In May of 1963, Castro invited Donovan and lawyer John E. Nolan,
who represented then-Justice Secretary Robert Kennedy, to a day of diving
in the Bay of Pigs area and again used the U.S. equipment. <br><br>
“In late 1963, ''Donovan told me that the idea of an attempt against
Castro gave him goose bumps, and he refused to take the equipment from
the CIA, thinking that if Cuba detected the operation, all the
negotiations could be ruined and that he could be executed,'' …<br><br>
“The book, sprinkled with curious and unexpected events, is a tense story
of how love, determination and cleverness made possible the exchange of
the Brigade 2506 prisoners for $53 million in food, medicine and medical
equipment. <br><br>
“The efforts of Donovan and the Families Committee came at a moment of
uncertainty over the prisoners' fates…<br><br>
“The committee's first meeting with Castro took place in Barreto de los
Heros' house in Miramar on April 10, 1962. Four days later, 60 wounded
Brigade members were flown to Miami. <br><br>
“Donovan's entry into the negotiations accelerated the release process.
<br><br>
“Knowing that Barreto de los Heros' telephone was tapped, Donovan
arranged a secret code for communications. <br><br>
“In mid-December, Castro agreed to an exchange and handed over a 29-page
list of food and medicine that was to be sent to Cuba by the American Red
Cross. The last 10 days of negotiations were very intense because Donovan
brought in a group of 60 lawyers in order to ensure all of the donations
promised by 157 American companies. <br><br>
<b>“</b>On Dec. 23, 1962, the first five planes left for Miami, carrying
484 members of the brigade. A day later, the 719 prisoners that remained
flew in nine more flights.”<br>
I have literally transcribed the article’s words. I wasn’t aware of some
of the specific information. Nothing that I remember is far from
the truth.<br>
<br>
My relationship with the Cienaga de Zapata (Zapata Marsh) began very
early. I learned about the place thanks to some American visitors
who would talk to me about the “<i>black fish</i>", a very dark
trout that was very abundant in the Laguna del Tesoro, at the heart of
the marsh, at a maximum depth of 6 meters. In those days we were
considering the development of tourism and possibly ‘polders’ like the
land reclaimed from the sea by the Dutch.<br>
<br>
The spot was famous from my days as a high school student, when the marsh
was populated by tens of thousands of crocodiles. Indiscriminate
catch had almost exterminated the species. It was necessary to protect
it.<br>
<br>
We were impelled above all by the desire to do something for the charcoal
burners of the marsh. That was how my relationship with the Bay of Pigs
began, a bay that is so deep it reaches almost a thousand meters. There I
met old Finalé and his son Quique, who were my teachers in underwater
fishing. I used to go all over those keys. I came to know that area like
the back of my hand.<br>
<br>
When the invaders landed there, three roads crossed the marsh, some
facilities had already been built and others were being built for
tourism, even an airport in the vicinity of Giron Beach, the last
stronghold of the enemy forces which our combatants took by assault on
the evening of April 19, 1961. I have told that story before. We were at
the point of recovering it in less than 30 hours. Diversion maneuvers by
the U.S. Marines delayed our crushing tank attack in the early morning of
the 18<sup>th</sup>.<br>
<br>
In order to deal with the issue of captured prisoners, I met Donovan, who
seemed to me –and I am pleased to confirm it with his son’s testimony– to
be an honorable man; I indeed once invited him to go fishing, and without
a doubt I talked to him about a wetsuit and diving equipment. I cannot
remember the other details too clearly; I would have to make some
inquiries. I was never concerned with writing my memoirs, and today I
understand that was a mistake.<br>
<br>
For example, I was not able to remember the exact number of wounded so
precisely. What stayed in my mind was the memory of those hundreds of our
wounded; quite a few died because of a shortage of equipment, medicines,
specialists and the lack of suitable facilities in those days. The
wounded men who were sent earlier surely required rehab or better care,
but that was not available to us.<br>
<br>
From our first victorious battle, on January 17, 1957, it became our
tradition to look after the enemy’s wounded. The history of our
Revolution records that fact.<br>
<br>
In the book of memoirs called “<i>Faith of my Fathers</i>”, written by
McCain with the omnipresent help of Mark Salter, technically very well
written, the main author states: <br>
<br>
“I was often accused of being an indifferent student, and given some of
my grades, I can appreciate the charity in that remark. But I was not so
much indifferent as selective. I liked English and history, and I
usually did well in those classes. I was less interested and less
successful in math and science.”<br>
<br>
Further along, he assures us:<br>
<br>
“A few months prior to graduation, I had taken the Naval Academy
entrance exams…did surprisingly well, even on the math exam.<br>
<br>
“My reputation as a rowdy and impetuous young man was not, I’m
embarrassed to confess, confined to Academy circles. Many upstanding
residents of lovely Annapolis, witnesses to some of our more extravagant
acts of insubordination, disapproved of me as did many Academy
officials.”<br>
<br>
Earlier, upon describing some of the events of his childhood, he tells us
that:<br>
<br>
“At the smallest provocation, I would go off in a mad frenzy, and then,
suddenly, crash to the floor unconscious.<br>
<br>
“The doctor prescribed a treatment that seems a little severe by modern
standards of child care. He instructed my parents to fill a bathtub with
cold water whenever I commenced a tantrum, and when I appeared to be
holding my breath to drop me, fully clothed, into it. <br>
<br>
Upon reading this, one has the impression that the methods that were
applied to us in those days –both in my case, living in that pre-war era,
just as in his –were not exactly the most fitting to deal with children.
In my case, there was no doctor advising the family; they were ordinary
people, some were illiterate, and many of them only applied traditional
treatments.<br>
<br>
Other episodes narrated by McCain relate to his adventures as a cadet on
training trips. I am not mentioning them because they stray from the
contents of my analysis and they have nothing to do with personal
matters.<br>
<br>
Naturally, McCain was not in the Congress hall on the night of Bush’s
speech last January 28<sup>th</sup>, because some things in this man’s
policies are compromising to him. He was in Little Havana, at the
Versailles Restaurant, where he received the tribute of the Cuban
community. It is just as well that we don’t look too closely into the
background of several people who were there.<br>
<br>
McCain supports the war in Iraq. He believes that the threat of
Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea and the growth of Russia and China
oblige the United States to strengthen its attack force. He would work
together with other countries to protect the nation from Islamic
extremism and continue in Iraq until victory.<br>
<br>
He recognizes the importance of keeping strong relations with Mexico and
the other Latin American countries. He is in favor of continuing the
current aggressive Cuba policy.<br>
<br>
He would reinforce security on United States borders, not just for the
entry and exit of people, but also for the products that enter the
country. He thinks that immigrants ought to learn English and the history
and culture of the United States.<br>
<br>
He wants the Latino vote, unfortunately most of these don’t vote or do it
exceptionally; they are always fearful of deportation, of their children
being taken away or of losing their jobs. On the Texas wall, more
than 500 continue to die each year. He is not promising an ‘adjustment
act’ to those who go after the “American dream”.<br>
<br>
He supports Bush’s “The No Child Left Behind Act”. He supports the
allocation of more federal funding for low interest scholarships and
university grants.<br>
<br>
In Cuba we offer everyone solid knowledge, an artistic education and the
right to graduate from university without paying any tuition. More than
50 thousand children with learning disabilities receive special
education. Computer science is extensively taught. Hundreds of thousands
of well qualified people are employed in these tasks. But Cuba must be
blockaded to free it from such a terrible tyranny.<br>
<br>
Like any other candidate, he has his little government platform. He
promises to reduce dependence on foreign energy. It is easy to say, but
these days it is difficult to do.<br>
<br>
He opposes subsidized ethanol production. Fantastic: I suggested just
that to Brazilian President Lula Da Silva, that he demand the United
States to suspend the hefty agricultural subsidies for corn and other
cereals destined for the production of ethanol from foods. But that
is not what is being proposed, on the contrary, it’s to export U.S.
ethanol to compete with Brazil. Only he and his advisors know it, because
ethanol from corn can never compete in cost with that of Brazil which
comes from sugarcane as the raw material, at the expense of the
tremendous efforts of its workers who in any case improve their lot
without the U.S. tariff barriers and subsidies.<br>
<br>
Many other Latin American nations were set on the path of producing
ethanol from sugarcane by the United States. What would they do
with the new decisions coming down from the North?<br>
<br>
And we can’t miss the promises ensuring quality of air and water, the
suitable use of green areas, the protection of the national parks that
would become just a memory of what once used to be the nation’s natural
splendor, victim of the unrelenting dictates of the market laws.
The Kyoto Protocol, nevertheless, would not be signed.<br>
<br>
These sound like the dreams of a castaway in the middle of a storm.<br>
<br>
He would reduce taxes for middle class families, keeping the Bush policy
of cutting back the permanent taxes and leaving rates at their current
level.<br>
<br>
He wants greater control over the costs of Medicare and Medicaid. He
thinks that families should be in charge of their healthcare dollars. He
would carry out health and prevention campaigns. He supports the plan of
the current President allowing workers to move money from social security
taxes to private retirement funds. <br>
<br>
Social security would suffer the same fate as the stock market.<br>
<br>
He is in favor of the death penalty, the growth and build-up of the armed
forces, and the expansion of the FTAs.<br>
<br>
Some McCain maxims:<br>
<a name="Candidates"></a>“Things are tough now, but we're better off than
in 2000.” (Jan 2008) <br>
“I'm well-versed in economics; I was at the Reagan Revolution.” (Jan
2008) <br>
“To avoid recession, stop unchecked spending.” (Jan 2008) <br>
“Loss of economic strength leads to losing military strength.” (Dec 2007)
<br>
“Republicans have forgotten how to control spending.” (Nov 2007) <br>
“Certify border is secure; only then allow guest workers.” (Jan 2008)
<br>
“2003 "amnesty" didn't mean rewarding illegal behavior.” (Jan
2008) <br>
“Round up and deport two million aliens who committed crimes.” (Jan 2008)
<br>
“Do everything I can to help all immigrants learn English.” (Dec 2007)
<br>
“No official English; Native Americans use own languages.” (Jan 2007)
<br>
“Immigration reform needed for national security.” (Jun 2007) <br>
“Bipartisanship shows preparedness for presidency.” (May 2007) <br>
“Maintain Cuban embargo; indict Castro.” (Dec 2007) <br>
“Cuba: No diplomatic and trade relations.” (Jul 1998)<br>
“Naive to exclude nukes; naive to exclude attacking Pakistan.” (Aug
2007)<br>
“War in Iraq ‘we have diverted attention from our hemisphere and we have
paid a price for that’.”(Mar 2007) <br>
He promises to visit his properties on the continent. He said that after
being elected to the White House in 2008, his first trip would be to
Mexico, Canada and Latin America to “reaffirm my commitment to our
hemisphere and the importance of relations within our
hemisphere."<br>
<br>
In his entire book, an obligatory reference in my Reflections, he states
that he was good in history. There is not one single reference to any
political philosopher, not even to one of those who inspired the
Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776; in
4 months and 23 days it will celebrate its 232nd birthday.<br>
<br>
More than 2400 years ago, Socrates, the famous Athenian wise man,
celebrated for his method and martyr to his ideas, conscious of human
limitations, said: “One thing only I know, and that is that I know
nothing.” Today, McCain, the Republican candidate, proclaims before his
fellow citizens: “One thing only I know, and that is that I know
everything.”<br>
<br>
I shall continue.<br>
<br>
Fidel Castro Ruz<br>
Date: February 11, 2008.<br>
Time: 5:35 p.m.<br><br>
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