Norvell Emerson: “I read an interesting article in today's Washington Times about a retired Air Force colonel, Ed Hubbard, a former POW in…”

“I read an interesting article in today's Washington Times about a retired Air Force colonel, Ed Hubbard, a former POW in Vietnam, who traveled down to Miami this week to have a press conference where he was awarded with some medals for his bravery, which he truly deserved, but it was also to point a finger, if you will, at the person that he suspected of being the Cuban interrogator and torturer in Vietnam. Well, as it turns out, it was a very interesting article, and after he was awarded these pins, the colonel stunned everybody in the room by saying, you know, let me say something. The best way to topple communism and I quote, in today's Cuba, he said, ``is by establishing relations with Fidel Castro. Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe because we showed them how we live. I have to believe the same thing will happen with Cuba.'' That is Retired Air Force Colonel Ed Hubbard, a POW, tortured in Vietnam by a Cuban, who very strongly believes that we should open the door with Cuba. I think that says it all.”