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		<title>By: Best Cuban Cigar: Montecristo No. 2? &#124; Bui4Ever &#124; Bui4Ever.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>Best Cuban Cigar: Montecristo No. 2? &#124; Bui4Ever &#124; Bui4Ever.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Kevin D. Korenthal</title>
		<link>http://www.stogieguys.com/2008/06/06042008-stogie-reviews-montecristo-no-2-cuban.html/comment-page-1#comment-96398</link>
		<dc:creator>Kevin D. Korenthal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We disagree on the fundamental issue. This is not about how the embargo hurts Cubans, it is about how easily Castro can be free of that which has kept his regime weak, poor and pretty much a non-player in world affairs for the last 50 years. Simply human rights advances. If you think that the tight communist state will allow any benefit from a wholesale end to the embargo without making that a condition therein, you&#039;re a crazy socialist denier and simply not worthy of any further debate. We disagree. We have presented our cases and are not going to convince each other. We&#039;ll just have to wait for history to give us the answer to which one of us is right.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We disagree on the fundamental issue. This is not about how the embargo hurts Cubans, it is about how easily Castro can be free of that which has kept his regime weak, poor and pretty much a non-player in world affairs for the last 50 years. Simply human rights advances. If you think that the tight communist state will allow any benefit from a wholesale end to the embargo without making that a condition therein, you&#8217;re a crazy socialist denier and simply not worthy of any further debate. We disagree. We have presented our cases and are not going to convince each other. We&#8217;ll just have to wait for history to give us the answer to which one of us is right.</p>
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		<title>By: David Glassman</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Glassman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One can make assumptions on how a country will look before its formed.  We know that before Castro in the &#039;50&#039;s Cuba had a better economy but with Mafia controlling the president.  Again...this embargo hurts the people not Castro.  If this was not the case why do so many Cubans attempt to escape ?

The issue is...who does the embargo hurt and the answer is:  The People.  So, buy Cubans from Spanish and other sites as you will help Cubans and defy a stupid law on the books that can not be enforced.  Arnold Swartzenager purchased a Cuban in Canada last year. all knew in a few days and he did not pay a fine.   Buy the best...and help the Cuban people.  Thats my motto.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One can make assumptions on how a country will look before its formed.  We know that before Castro in the &#8217;50&#8217;s Cuba had a better economy but with Mafia controlling the president.  Again&#8230;this embargo hurts the people not Castro.  If this was not the case why do so many Cubans attempt to escape ?</p>
<p>The issue is&#8230;who does the embargo hurt and the answer is:  The People.  So, buy Cubans from Spanish and other sites as you will help Cubans and defy a stupid law on the books that can not be enforced.  Arnold Swartzenager purchased a Cuban in Canada last year. all knew in a few days and he did not pay a fine.   Buy the best&#8230;and help the Cuban people.  Thats my motto.</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin D. Korenthal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin D. Korenthal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I argue that once Conservatives are back in power, a prospect looking increasingly likely these days, the proper message will be sent to Raul and that message will force a change. The people of Cuba are counting on us to keep the pressure on. This is an indisputable fact. Your way rewards for bad behavior. Whether in raising children or fighting thuggery, that option always spells defeat for freedom and the well-being of the citizenry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I argue that once Conservatives are back in power, a prospect looking increasingly likely these days, the proper message will be sent to Raul and that message will force a change. The people of Cuba are counting on us to keep the pressure on. This is an indisputable fact. Your way rewards for bad behavior. Whether in raising children or fighting thuggery, that option always spells defeat for freedom and the well-being of the citizenry.</p>
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		<title>By: David Glassman</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Glassman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Look at history. Look at Cuba. Has the Embargo helped the USA in any fashion?  The only group of people hurt were the Cuban people and not Castro. This is clear.  

The issue is more than just communism since we have relations with China and other communist countries.  The majority of people in Cuba do not like the government and are trapped.   The people had 47 years to rise up.  Its time to break the embargo as this administration will do and ideally get the Castro&#039;s.  However, to even suggest the embargo did anything is just ignorance.
 
Every time we purchase a box of Cubans we truly help the Cuban people more than we help Castro.  So I will buy my Cubans in total defiance to US policy.  There are a few sites that permit one to purchase Cubans and I say...LETS DO IT.  I have yet to be sited for ordering them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look at history. Look at Cuba. Has the Embargo helped the USA in any fashion?  The only group of people hurt were the Cuban people and not Castro. This is clear.  </p>
<p>The issue is more than just communism since we have relations with China and other communist countries.  The majority of people in Cuba do not like the government and are trapped.   The people had 47 years to rise up.  Its time to break the embargo as this administration will do and ideally get the Castro&#8217;s.  However, to even suggest the embargo did anything is just ignorance.</p>
<p>Every time we purchase a box of Cubans we truly help the Cuban people more than we help Castro.  So I will buy my Cubans in total defiance to US policy.  There are a few sites that permit one to purchase Cubans and I say&#8230;LETS DO IT.  I have yet to be sited for ordering them.</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin D. Korenthal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin D. Korenthal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We can go round and round about this all day. This is a matter of ideology. You believe it is the embargo that has hurt the Cuban people whereas I believe it is the policies of this closed-off communist regime. We&#039;d be wise to not reward Cuba for managing (somehow) to stay afloat for 50 years by relinquishing the one ace we have that could one day cause the Cuban people to rise against their totalitarian keepers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We can go round and round about this all day. This is a matter of ideology. You believe it is the embargo that has hurt the Cuban people whereas I believe it is the policies of this closed-off communist regime. We&#8217;d be wise to not reward Cuba for managing (somehow) to stay afloat for 50 years by relinquishing the one ace we have that could one day cause the Cuban people to rise against their totalitarian keepers.</p>
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		<title>By: David Glassman</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Glassman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LOL..the embargo has only hurt the Cuban people for the past 47 years.  I am not Cuban however look at the results.  Tell us, what has the embargo accomplished since 1962 ?   We see Cuban nationals running from their country, limited trade since they now have limited exports without trade and the people pay the price.  Embargo&#039;s only work if the intent is to hurt the government.  In this case it only hurt the people and not Castro.    

If the embargo was never sanctioned Castro would have lost his power sooner as a better economy in Cuba would have empowered a coup d&#039;état. This embargo helped Castro stay in power as the people have no resources to over throw the government.    

Castro is a putz and so is his moron brother.  However, Castro did attend Harvard Univ. and still hates the USA.  This is right but he has no right to destory people in the name of his political ideology.

As for Cuban cigars...I have smoked many and prefer Montecristo #2&#039;s and Cohibas.  El Ray de Mundos are great too.   While I lived in Italy I had no problem purchasing them though its a crime to spoke them anywhere.  Its totally insane that the US government can impose an embargo on US citizens outside the border of the country.    A US citizen can go to the Netherlands, purchase pot and smoke it legally.   If that same person purchased a Cuban cigar they could be fined 55,000 $.   Though its very unlikely you would get caught its still technically a crime.    is that right?  

The US could if they want to declare war on Castro and hang him and his brother like a pig as they did to Mussolini, why don&#039;t they ? Why has the US taken this crap for 47 years ?   Think about it..Where is Guantanamo bay ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOL..the embargo has only hurt the Cuban people for the past 47 years.  I am not Cuban however look at the results.  Tell us, what has the embargo accomplished since 1962 ?   We see Cuban nationals running from their country, limited trade since they now have limited exports without trade and the people pay the price.  Embargo&#8217;s only work if the intent is to hurt the government.  In this case it only hurt the people and not Castro.    </p>
<p>If the embargo was never sanctioned Castro would have lost his power sooner as a better economy in Cuba would have empowered a coup d&#8217;état. This embargo helped Castro stay in power as the people have no resources to over throw the government.    </p>
<p>Castro is a putz and so is his moron brother.  However, Castro did attend Harvard Univ. and still hates the USA.  This is right but he has no right to destory people in the name of his political ideology.</p>
<p>As for Cuban cigars&#8230;I have smoked many and prefer Montecristo #2&#8217;s and Cohibas.  El Ray de Mundos are great too.   While I lived in Italy I had no problem purchasing them though its a crime to spoke them anywhere.  Its totally insane that the US government can impose an embargo on US citizens outside the border of the country.    A US citizen can go to the Netherlands, purchase pot and smoke it legally.   If that same person purchased a Cuban cigar they could be fined 55,000 $.   Though its very unlikely you would get caught its still technically a crime.    is that right?  </p>
<p>The US could if they want to declare war on Castro and hang him and his brother like a pig as they did to Mussolini, why don&#8217;t they ? Why has the US taken this crap for 47 years ?   Think about it..Where is Guantanamo bay ?</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin D. Korenthal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin D. Korenthal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I never go out of my way to obtain a cuban cigar and would never knowingly purchase one. That is not to say that I have never smoked them.

I believe that the continued embargo on Cuba will eventually result in an improvement in that country&#039;s horrific human rights record and may even one day prompt the tiny island to join the rest of the developed world in economic and social justice.

In the meantime, the Castro brothers can suck it!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I never go out of my way to obtain a cuban cigar and would never knowingly purchase one. That is not to say that I have never smoked them.</p>
<p>I believe that the continued embargo on Cuba will eventually result in an improvement in that country&#8217;s horrific human rights record and may even one day prompt the tiny island to join the rest of the developed world in economic and social justice.</p>
<p>In the meantime, the Castro brothers can suck it!</p>
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		<title>By: David Glassman</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Glassman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>TO: Kevin D. Korenthal

So, you will smoke a CUBAN outside the US?   The penalty for smoking a Cuban cigar ANYWHERE on the planet by a US citizen is 55,000 USD$ per cigar.  Thats right...ANYWHERE on the planet.   All we do is hurt the Cuban people with this embargo not Castro.</description>
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<p>So, you will smoke a CUBAN outside the US?   The penalty for smoking a Cuban cigar ANYWHERE on the planet by a US citizen is 55,000 USD$ per cigar.  Thats right&#8230;ANYWHERE on the planet.   All we do is hurt the Cuban people with this embargo not Castro.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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