ELIAN GONZALES, BILL CLINTON & US STORM TROOPERS

Jim Kouri, CPP
August 8, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

A little Cuban boy named Elian, who in 1999 was scooped up by a federal SWAT team in Miami and shipped back to Cuba, is in the news again for the get well card he and his family sent to communist dictator Fidel Castro.

The youngster addressed the 79-year-old as my "Dear Grandfather" and wished Castro a happy 80th birthday.

For those not familiar with this child's story or for those who've forgotten, Elian Gonzalez was the center of one of the biggest news stories during the Clinton Administration. Not as big as Monica, but close.

While escaping the communist paradise with his mother, Elian was shipwrecked and then rescued off the Florida coast in 1999, but his mother wasn't as lucky. Relatives of the 5-year old wanted him to stay with them in Miami. However, the boy's father, a loyalist to Castro wanted him back and suddenly Elian was the in the midst of a heated tug-of-war.

The Clinton Administration decided that Elian would be better off with his alleged biological father in Castro's Proletariat kingdom. The only problem was Elian's Miami relatives, who had escaped from the de facto Cuban prison themselves, wanted Elian to grow up in the United States and enjoy the benefits of living in a free, capitalist nation.

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