Don't much care what you "like" or "dislike" pal. And you don't decide or influence where I go or what I say upon arriving. I wasn't defending Castro.  I was defending the right of a father to have his son returned to him once the mother was dead. I was objecting to the legions of know it alls who really act no better than liberals when the chips are down.  Kind of fascistic to think you know what's better for a kid, than his own father, isn't is? Well, it is even if you can't see it. I couldn't give a bowl of pig farts where Elian Gonzalez grows up. People living in Cuba are like people living most other places. Or are you laboring under the "White Man's Favorite Delusion"?  This is NOT  racial slur this is a reference to the oft cited "White Man's Burden" which falsely allowed it's adherent's to believe that they were the worlds "only hope". Is this where you're at in all of this? Sad is all I can say. Most Cubans would REJECT an opportunity to come here if it were GIVEN to them! Ask a Cuban that has fled sometimes  and he'll tell you that he was in the extreme minority in wanting to leave. That's how I know. I ask the people involved, I don't go off my White Man's Burden inspired fantasies to ruin the lives of others. If your ex-wife got it in her mind that France was a better place to live and she took your kid there, and got herself killed in  the process, I daresay you'd take a different view of the French liberal Homos who gave your kid to a gay couple to raise and said you shouldn't have any contact with him. I think that if YOUR kid were going to be raised by STRANGERS (including never before seen "family"), you'd take a different view. Easy to carp when it ain't your ox being gored.

Small minds, think small thing. 

I almost missed this last parting shot of insanity from you. 

"George W. Bush never said we were going into Iraq because of WMDs. That was a liberal lie, one that you apparently fell for right quickly."

ARE YOU INSANE? WERE YOU DROPPED ON YOUR HEAD AS A CHILD??? Man "De-Nile" ain't just a river in Africa it's a MONSOON runnin' through your BRAIN!!!!!

Here, my historically challenged friend, is an excerpt from a Bush speech urging the U.N to let him take Saddam out. It's on the friggin' white house website dude. I can't believe that you wrote that! No WMD'S??? Man, you're like and Obama supporter, just crazier. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020912-1.html

From 1991 to 1995, the Iraqi regime said it had no biological weapons. After a senior official in its weapons program defected and exposed this lie, the regime admitted to producing tens of thousands of liters of anthrax and other deadly biological agents for use with Scud warheads, aerial bombs, and aircraft spray tanks. U.N. inspectors believe Iraq has produced two to four times the amount of biological agents it declared, and has failed to account for more than three metric tons of material that could be used to produce biological weapons. Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.

United Nations' inspections also revealed that Iraq likely maintains stockpiles of VX, mustard and other chemical agents, and that the regime is rebuilding and expanding facilities capable of producing chemical weapons.

And in 1995, after four years of deception, Iraq finally admitted it had a crash nuclear weapons program prior to the Gulf War. We know now, were it not for that war, the regime in Iraq would likely have possessed a nuclear weapon no later than 1993.

Today, Iraq continues to withhold important information about its nuclear program -- weapons design, procurement logs, experiment data, an accounting of nuclear materials and documentation of foreign assistance. Iraq employs capable nuclear scientists and technicians. It retains physical infrastructure needed to build a nuclear weapon. Iraq has made several attempts to buy high-strength aluminum tubes used to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon. Should Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year. And Iraq's state-controlled media has reported numerous meetings between Saddam Hussein and his nuclear scientists, leaving little doubt about his continued appetite for these weapons.

Iraq also possesses a force of Scud-type missiles with ranges beyond the 150 kilometers permitted by the U.N. Work at testing and production facilities shows that Iraq is building more long-range missiles that it can inflict mass death throughout the region.

In 1990, after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the world imposed economic sanctions on Iraq. Those sanctions were maintained after the war to compel the regime's compliance with Security Council resolutions. In time, Iraq was allowed to use oil revenues to buy food. Saddam Hussein has subverted this program, working around the sanctions to buy missile technology and military materials. He blames the suffering of Iraq's people on the United Nations, even as he uses his oil wealth to build lavish palaces for himself, and to buy arms for his country. By refusing to comply with his own agreements, he bears full guilt for the hunger and misery of innocent Iraqi citizens.

In 1991, Iraq promised U.N. inspectors immediate and unrestricted access to verify Iraq's commitment to rid itself of weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles. Iraq broke this promise, spending seven years deceiving, evading, and harassing U.N. inspectors before ceasing cooperation entirely. Just months after the 1991 cease-fire, the Security Council twice renewed its demand that the Iraqi regime cooperate fully with inspectors, condemning Iraq's serious violations of its obligations. The Security Council again renewed that demand in 1994, and twice more in 1996, deploring Iraq's clear violations of its obligations. The Security Council renewed its demand three more times in 1997, citing flagrant violations; and three more times in 1998, calling Iraq's behavior totally unacceptable. And in 1999, the demand was renewed yet again.

As we meet today, it's been almost four years since the last U.N. inspectors set foot in Iraq, four years for the Iraqi regime to plan, and to build, and to test behind the cloak of secrecy.

We know that Saddam Hussein pursued weapons of mass murder even when inspectors were in his country. Are we to assume that he stopped when they left? The history, the logic, and the facts lead to one conclusion: Saddam Hussein's regime is a grave and gathering danger. To suggest otherwise is to hope against the evidence. To assume this regime's good faith is to bet the lives of millions and the peace of the world in a reckless gamble. And this is a risk we must not take.

Delegates to the General Assembly, we have been more than patient. We've tried sanctions. We've tried the carrot of oil for food, and the stick of coalition military strikes. But Saddam Hussein has defied all these efforts and continues to develop weapons of mass destruction. The first time we may be completely certain he has a -- nuclear weapons is when, God forbids, he uses one. We owe it to all our citizens to do everything in our power to prevent that day from coming.