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On the recordDecember 13, 2001
Sad to say, we have out of the mouth of Fidel Castro and his minions the most current statement of his attitude toward terrorism and his attitude toward the United States, the Nation which now is being asked to provide U.S. financing for agricultural sales to Cuba. Would the Senator be surprised that when the tragedy of September 11 was made known to Fidel Castro, while he initially offered some words of support to the United States, he also urged United States policymakers to be calm and stated that the attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the failed attack that ended up in the fields of western Pennsylvania were a consequence of the United States having applied 'terrorist methods' for years? He is essentially saying that the United States and Osama bin Laden are mirror images of one another. Those were the statements on the day of the attack. Subsequent statements relative to the attack of September 11 have become even more hostile. A recent press report quoted Cuba's mission to the United Nations as describing the United States' response to the attacks as 'fascist and terrorist,' so we not only are Osama bin Laden, we have now become Adolf Hitler, and that the United States was using the attack as an excuse to establish 'unrestricted tyranny over all people on Earth.'
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Discussing Fidel Castro's statements regarding the U.S. response to the September 11 attacks.

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