[NYTr] Castro "Claims" (!) Bush Could Spark WWIII

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

["Claims?" "Claims!"  The one nation that has already been guilty of
a first-strike with nuclear weapons, a nation run by a narcissistic
delusional power-mad ignoramus who has threatened World War III, out
loud and before the whole world, who has started more wars and invaded
more countries in a mere 5 years than anyone since Adolf Hitler, and
it's Castro's "claim" that this man is an imminent danger to the entire
planet?  Fidel's Reflection column today ALLEGED Bush has threatened to
use nuclear weapons? What leader controls MORE nuclear weapons, with
less competence apparently than anyone else? What country is supposedly
(or really) flying them around without an escort or the proper
safeguards and authorization "by mistake?"  Whose military is
"mistakenly" firing missiles at farms in Qatar?  Whose gangsters have
gouged millions and millions of dollars from the taxpayers and "lost"
them?  Who is threatening the world with starvation, disease, and
weapons of mass destruction? Who has already killed hundreds of
thousands, if not more, human beings? And if he wants Armageddon,
who's going to stop him?  The Military, who don't speak up until they've
been retired for years, collecting pensions (except for General
Shinseki)?  The useless CONGRESS wimps? The somnolent US population?] 

AP - Oct 23, 2007
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CUBA_CASTRO?SITE=MOSPL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Castro Claims Bush Could Spark WWIII

By WILL WEISSERT
Associated Press Writer

HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Castro wrote Tuesday President Bush is
threatening the world with nuclear war and famine - an attack on
Washington a day before the White House plans to announce new plans to
draw Cuba away from communism.

"The danger of a massive world famine is aggravated by Mr. Bush's
recent initiative to transform foods into fuel," Castro wrote in Cuban
news media, referring to U.S. support for using corn and other food
crops to produce gasoline substitutes.

The brief essay titled "Bush, Hunger and Death" also alleged that Bush
"threatens humanity with World War III, this time using atomic weapons."

Bush is expected to announce new strategies toward Cuba on Wednesday.
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said last week that Bush would
"emphasize the importance of democracy for the Cuban people and the
role the international community can play in Cuba's transition by
insisting on free speech, free assembly, free and competitive elections
and the release of all political prisoners."

In his essay, Castro predicted that Bush "will adopt new measures to
accelerate the 'transition period' in our country, equivalent to a new
conquest of Cuba by force." Cuban officials have long denounced U.S.
efforts to produce a "transition" from Castro's government to a
Western-style representative democracy.

Ailing and 81, Castro has not been seen in public since undergoing
emergency intestinal surgery and ceding power to a provisional
government headed by his younger brother Raul in July 2006.

While he has looked upbeat and lucid in official videos, he also seems
too frail to resume power.

Life on the island has changed little under Raul Castro, the
76-year-old defense minister who was his elder brother's hand-picked
successor for decades.

Cuba staged municipal elections on Sunday, the first step in a process
that will determine if Fidel Castro is re-elected or replaced next year
as Cuban leader.

© 2007 The Associated Press.