US tightens ban on Cuban Cigars

**cockyhoskins** · 01-17-2005, 10:41 PM

http://phaster.com/unpretentious/cub...legalized.html

**allanf** · 03-10-2005, 06:57 PM

See how many products were made in The People's Republic of China....

No further comment is necessary.

**jaewing** · 03-22-2005, 01:47 PM

I honestly think one of two things has to happen for the ban to lift:

1) Castro dies

2) a democrat gets in the White House.

In reponse to that previous opinion . . . I believe it was a Democrat who instituted the embargo . . . no positive but was it Kenedy or Johnson? Please correc tme if I am wrong.

The only point I make is that the political parties have done 180 degree shifts in philosophy over the last 50 years.

Not sure if a Dem in the Whitehouse will be enough though. Castro taking a dirt nap will be a huge step in the direction of the embargo being lifted but I think that it will really depend on what happens there AFTER he dies. If they get a "Castro Jr." then nothing will change. if the U.S. can assist in implementing a Democratic Republic then the embargo will be gone within a year of that occurrence.

My 2 cents.

**less11** · 03-22-2005, 08:03 PM

It was Kennedy who instituted the ban.

**cockyhoskins** · 03-22-2005, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by jaewing

I honestly think one of two things has to happen for the ban to lift:

1) Castro dies

2) a democrat gets in the White House.

In reponse to that previous opinion . . . I believe it was a Democrat who instituted the embargo . . . no positive but was it Kenedy or Johnson? Please correc tme if I am wrong.

The only point I make is that the political parties have done 180 degree shifts in philosophy over the last 50 years.

Not sure if a Dem in the Whitehouse will be enough though. Castro taking a dirt nap will be a huge step in the direction of the embargo being lifted but I think that it will really depend on what happens there AFTER he dies. If they get a "Castro Jr." then nothing will change. if the U.S. can assist in implementing a Democratic Republic then the embargo will be gone within a year of that occurrence.

My 2 cents.

It was Kennedy. However, that was in the middle of the cold war.

**chrisboy** · 03-31-2005, 02:06 AM

i think that the US has taken it too far, and the reason behind the real embargo is already blinded by sheer arrogance and machismo. sorry. just my opinion.

**Yeagermeister** · 04-05-2005, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by chrisboy

i think that the US has taken it too far, and the reason behind the real embargo is already blinded by sheer arrogance and machismo. sorry. just my opinion.

Yea i agree..