Fidel Castro returns to TV with dire warning of nuclear conflict

[flamingdem]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/13/fidel-castro-on-cuban-tv-middle-east-iran-us

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The Middle East is on the verge of a nuclear war triggered by a US attack on Iran in the name of preventing the country from developing its own weapons, according to ageing Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro.

"To do this on the basis of a calculation that the Iranians are going to come running out to ask the Yankees for forgiveness is absurd," Castro said. "They will encounter a terrible resistance that will spread the conflict that cannot end up any other way than turning nuclear."

The former Cuban president said Israel would throw the first bomb, but the risk that red buttons would also be pressed in Pakistan and India was latent.

Castro made the prediction on Cuban TV last night, in a dramatic return to public life after four years in near-seclusion.

"The US is activating the machinery to destroy Iran," he said. "But the Iranians have been building up a defensive force little by little for years."

Castro said attacking Iran would have a very different result from invading Iraq. "When Bush attacked Iraq, Iraq was a divided country," he said. "Iran is not divided."

The Cuban leader also emphasised that India, Pakistan and Israel are the three nuclear powers who have refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

"The control that Israel has over the United States is enormous."

"US foreign policy is better described as the policy of total impunity." MORE

[Flatulo]

1. I think the old boy is right about invading Iran...

Not that we are going to do so (unlikely) but rather that the outcome would be an unimaginable disaster for us. I believe that Barack is far too smart to ever sign off on such a suicide mission.

[Billy Burnett]

2. Prior to McChrystal's replacement by Petraeus, Petraeus was put in charge of ME assassin squads.

See the NYT article May 25, 2010 -

US SAID TO ORDER AN EXPANDED USE OF SECRET ACTION
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/world/25military.html
Secret Military Directive
is Aimed at Militants and
Possibly Iran

It doesn't take Fidel Castro to figure it out. All he needs to reach his conclusion is to use google to keep up with the news.

The LBN 2_minutes_of_hate thread on this topic is filled with ignorant bullshit based anti Castro musings that more represents the state of denial many DUers are in regarding anything about Cuba.