Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “We have a policy goal, and it is a policy that has been set not only by the President but by the Congress and codified…”

“We have a policy goal, and it is a policy that has been set not only by the President but by the Congress and codified into law and clearly espoused by President Bush in repeated statements: A free Cuba, achieved through a democratic transition, with the release of all political prisoners, the legalization of all political parties, the press and labor unions, and the scheduling of free internationally supervised elections. Now that free Cuba will not oppress its people and it will not threaten its neighbors. The intelligence community, as I stated before, has said that ever since 1999 it has come to the conclusion that there is an offensive biological weapons program being developed by the Cuban regime. That has been made public now by the intelligence community, but the conclusion was reached as of 1999. Now, the director of the Soviet biological weapons program, Dr. Alibek, has written in his book that by 1990, the Soviets were absolutely convinced that Castro had an offensive biological weapons program.”