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Because Bush has had nothing but success in his foreign policy: President George W. Bush on Thursday sharply criticized Democratic front-runner Barack Obama’s pledge to meet Cuban leader Raul Castro without preconditions, leaping squarely into the race to succeed him. “I’m not suggesting there’s never a time to talk, but I’m suggesting now is not […]

Background Ever since 1959, when the Cuban Revolution overthrew the gambling and drug barons of the U.S.-supported Batista regime, the island Republic has been the target of terrorist attacks committed by Miami-based anti-Castro groups. After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, there have been hundreds of bombings directed against Cuban hotels, gunfire directed […]