Unbelievable. This is like Powell's presentation to the UN all over again... How stupid are these people? Or how stupid do they think we are?
The Smirking Chimp reveals that the Fidel Castro sex tourism quote that Bush recently used in a speech (see my post below) was lifted from a 2001 essay written by then Dartmouth University undergraduate Charles Trumbull. Sadly, the student made up the quote.
Bush said:
"The dictator welcomes sex tourism. Here's how he bragged about the industry. This is his quote: 'Cuba has the cleanest and most educated prostitutes in the world.'
The actual quotation from Castro's 1992 speech:
'There are hookers, but prostitution is not allowed in our country. There are no women forced to sell themselves to a man, to a foreigner, to a tourist. Those who do so do it on their own, voluntarily. We can say that they are highly educated hookers and quite healthy, because we are the country with the lowest number of AIDS cases.'
As the Smirking Chimp blog points out, "Castro admitted that prostitution does exist in Cuba, as it does here, but tried to defuse the matter by pointing to the country's high health and education standards. This is hardly 'welcoming sex tourism' as Bush claims."
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