On the recordJuly 23, 2002
I think this is a vital discussion. Who would ever have thought that we would be living in this world 2 years ago. We live in a world where 3,000 Americans have been slaughtered before our eyes. We live in a world where we understand that the bin Ladens are little kooks over there halfway around the world, living in a dictatorship like with the Taliban, can do us horrendous harm. We have nothing against the people of Cuba. The people of Cuba are wonderful people. In fact, if we are doing something against the people of Cuba's well-being, we have Cuban Americans with us who would be jumping up in order to protect their interests. No, the people of Cuba are our friends, just like the people of Communist China are our friends, but what we have to do is make sure we weaken the stranglehold these gangster regimes have on those people, and it is especially important for us to weaken that stranglehold on these regimes that are headed by monsters, Frankenstein monsters, who have a blood grudge against the United States of America. Nowhere is that more demonstrable than in Fidel Castro. Bin Laden hates us, but I will tell my colleagues that Fidel Castro's hatred of the United States is as equal to that of bin Laden, and there are countless quotes to suggest that. No, we do not want this man's regime to be maintained.
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