Bush Ramps Up The Anti-Cuban Rhetoric

Bush decides Castro should go after learning that Cuba has communist government

This week, President Bush indicated that it was time for a change in Cuba. For the first time during his presidency, Bush has focused on the island nation and some are viewing his words as a threat to the continued reign of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who has ruled the island for close to four decades.

What appears to have triggered Bush's interest in Cuba is his recent discovery that Cuba is, in fact, communist. According to White House press secretary Scott McClellan, the President assumed that Castro had simply been re-elected several times.

"The President was under the impression that the current Castro was the son of Fidel Castro," explained McClellan. "He just assumed that politics ran in the Castro family and the different members of the family had been running the country since the sixties."

Reporters and critics of the Bush administration were shocked at the President's ignorance about the state of Cuban affairs. McClellan admitted that the President sometimes confuses Puerto Rico with Cuba.

"It's an easy mistake to make. They're both islands in the same general vicinity," said McClellan, "and neither one of them has any oil."

The President appears to have made his decision to speak out against Castro's continued dominance of Cuba after learning that the people of Cuba had no legitimate way to remove Castro.

"In this country, unpopular politicians can be recalled, as we saw in California," said McClellan, "plus we have a Supreme Court that won't hesitate to step in and help determine the course of an election. They don't have those safeguards in Cuba."

McClellan says there is no time table for military intervention in Cuba, but hinted that a small invasion could coincide with next year's election run.

"Right now, we're thinking about a September invasion, maybe something to coincide with the Republican convention or even a few small bombings to commemorate 9/11," said McClellan. "I hear Havana's beautiful in the fall."

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