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Canadas beloved leader Justin Trudeau calls Castro a loving and great leader

LOL

Trudeau is already backpedaling!

Hot off the press from the CBC

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Fidel Castro was a dictator and he did not intend to minimize the former Cuban leader's human rights abuses.The prime minister came under fire Saturday after issuing a statement of condolences for Castro in which he described the former president as "a remarkable leader" and family friend. Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose, as well as a number of Conservative leadership hopefuls and U.S. Republican senators, lambasted Trudeau for his choice of words.
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Fidel Castro was a dictator, Trudeau says - Politics - CBC News
 
Carjosse said:
So the PMO is not going to piss off the Cuban government.
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So he's duty-bound to heap effusive praise onto a brutal dictator? Refer to him as a family friend?
 
NoLeftNoRight said:
The internet's honeymoon with Justin Trudeau comes to an end after he praises Fidel Castro

Canadians quickly took to twitter to denounce his ignorance.

If his family had been one of those tens of thousands tortured or murdered under Castro's communist regime maybe he wouldn't say such stupid, insensitive things.
Castro flaunted double Rolex watches, the worlds most expensive cigars and ate like royalty while banning many staple foods and nearly all luxury items for the general population.

This is who Trudeau sees as a great leader.

What an assclown
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"Man, Emperor Palpatine was such a loving and caring Emperor. Sure, he killed untold billions and only cared about himself and manipulated the entire galaxy in an effort to gain absolute power, he was still a nice guy when you got down to it."

- Darth Vader
 
digsbe said:
I wonder if he'll actually retract some of his flowery praise of the dictator and condemn the murderous life he lived. Of course it's easy to accept that Castro was a dictator, he was leader of Cuba for nearly 50 years with no opposition.
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do you suppose the tens of thousands in S. Florida and Cuban prisons are not opposition? holy carp!
 
katzgar said:
do you suppose the tens of thousands in S. Florida and Cuban prisons are not opposition? holy carp!
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I'm speaking of political opposition in Cuba... Show me 1 democratic election the country had where Castro had an opponent. My point is while Castro was alive and healthy, no one was going to take his spot and couldn't take his spot. That's how dictators run things.
 
TheGoverness said:
"Man, Emperor Palpatine was such a loving and caring Emperor. Sure, he killed untold billions and only cared about himself and manipulated the entire galaxy in an effort to gain absolute power, he was still a nice guy when you got down to it."

- Darth Vader
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Let's not forget how he brought schools, healthcare, and law enforcement to Tatooine and changed billions of lives with the "Death Star" Full employment stimulus plan .
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Let's not forget how he brought schools, healthcare, and law enforcement to Tatooine and changed billions of lives with the "Death Star" Full employment stimulus plan .
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Death Star? Surely you mean the 'Imperial Ore Extractor'.

Don't believe the rebel propaganda.
 
digsbe said:
With this I lost nearly all respect for that air-headed liberal pretty boy.

It's funny that he opposes the death penalty and wants to be seen as some lovely humanitarian, yet praises a man that frequently used firing squads to dispose of political dissident.
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I think Justin was doing way to many shots of Maple syrup and chasing it with Molson beer with his praise. I’m not all that surprised by his comments though, his father Pierre had close ties with Castro.
 
digsbe said:
I'm speaking of political opposition in Cuba... Show me 1 democratic election the country had where Castro had an opponent. My point is while Castro was alive and healthy, no one was going to take his spot and couldn't take his spot. That's how dictators run things.
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Not to mention, his brother Raul is now president, this murderous individual actually was the one that got his hands dirty and blood stained.
 
Carjosse said:
The Conservatives have never had a negative relationship either just encouraging more commercial investment. But we have in no way ever had bad relations with Cuba post Trudeau Sr.
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Prime Minister Harper, the only Conservative Prime Minister with any kind of time for Cuba, encouraged the US's rapprochement with Cuba, following Fidel Castro's withdrawal from public life, on the basis that with Fidel gone the Cuban government and people, with the help of the US, may move away from its socialist past and join the 21st century. That welcome was not a sign of good relations with Castro or Cuba but an opening to Cuban reform. It would be no different from similar rapprochement efforts with Iran and North Korea and does not, in any way, represent Justin Trudeau's fawning admiration of a despicable, murderous dictator.
 
To the rest of the people including many liberal leaders who believe that Castro was an extraordinary person who did some bad things but also some really good things for Cuba, that's analogous to saying "he beat his wife, kept her in poverty, and took away her freedom, but she had a better education and healthcare than the last guy she was with.
 
Harshaw said:
So he's duty-bound to heap effusive praise onto a brutal dictator? Refer to him as a family friend?
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Pretty much, that is kind of how international affairs go these days, and the second part is true to a point.
 
NoLeftNoRight said:
The internet's honeymoon with Justin Trudeau comes to an end after he praises Fidel Castro

Canadians quickly took to twitter to denounce his ignorance.

If his family had been one of those tens of thousands tortured or murdered under Castro's communist regime maybe he wouldn't say such stupid, insensitive things.
Castro flaunted double Rolex watches, the worlds most expensive cigars and ate like royalty while banning many staple foods and nearly all luxury items for the general population.

This is who Trudeau sees as a great leader.

What an assclown
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Let's face it folks, the reason there is so much rage against Castro is that he led a banana republic that was able to kick America in the shins, and get away with it. A petulant national ego has never recovered.

Castro was no saint, but he did manage to raise Cuba above the standards of most surrounding countries, in a number of measures. It is head and shoulders above basket cases like Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and others in public safety, equatable distribution of food and resources, education and medical care.

It is hypocritical for Americans to turn a blind eye to the support of murderous right wing dictators in Latin America, and elsewhere, but rain rage and indignation down on Cuba because they had the cajones to toss out some undesirable US citizens, and confiscate property.
 
Carjosse said:
Pretty much, that is kind of how international affairs go these days, and the second part is true to a point.
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No it's not.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
No it's not.
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It is, what did you want him to say? We have good relations with Cuba and his father personally knew him. He is not going to denounce him as a murderous dictator. When the King of Saudi Arabia dies I can guarantee that even Trump would not denounce him for his actions.
 
Carjosse said:
It is, what did you want him to say? We have good relations with Cuba and his father personally knew him. He is not going to denounce him as a murderous dictator. When the King of Saudi Arabia dies I can guarantee that even Trump would not denounce him for his actions.
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"we convey official condolences to the Republic of Cuba for the death of President Castro"

sign, seal, deliver.

is an acceptable international response.

Really on an objective level I think Castro was a worse man then the King of Saudi Arabia, or the last King , or the King before that. and I am no fan of the Kingdom, but you're trying to introduce a hypothetical to deflect from the fact Trudeau went to open fawning praise of this man when all he had to do was official condolences. There's a popular school of thought amongst hard left activists that almost venerates Fidel Castro and sees him as a hero, he was nothing of the sort.
 
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Carjosse said:
Pretty much, that is kind of how international affairs go these days, and the second part is true to a point.
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Well, that's just asinine.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
"we convey official condolences to the Republic of Cuba for the death of President Castro"

sign, seal, deliver.

is an acceptable international response.

Really on an objective level I think Castro was a worse man then the King of Saudi Arabia, or the last King , or the King before that. and I am no fan of the Kingdom, but you're trying to introduce a hypothetical to deflect from the fact Trudeau went to open fawning praise of this man when all he had to do was official condolences. There's a popular school of thought amongst hard left activists that almost venerates Fidel Castro and sees him as a hero, he was nothing of the sort.
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You know the double standard; people like him always find failures romantic, as long as they stuck their fingers in the U.S.'s eyes.
 
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