Republican presidential candidate John McCain was in South Florida on Wednesday, so Cuba was on his agenda. From the Sun-Sentinel:
Palm Beach -- In his first official campaign stop in Palm Beach County, Republican presidential hopeful John McCain told a group of Florida broadcasters Wednesday that while he backed continued economic pressure on the communist regime in Cuba, he would not sanction any military actions against the Castro regime were he to win the 2008 election."I don't think we can move militarily against a country just because they have a government we don't like," said McCain in responding to a question from an audience of about 150 members of the Florida Association of Broadcasters. "If we did that, the backlash around the world would be serious."
Asked about trading with Cuba to hasten a democratic transition, McCain said, "I don't know what we'd trade besides 1950s vintage cars."
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