Obama's new friends.

"AFTER VIEWING the movie “Unbroken,” it’s hard to imagine any worse torture, but you haven’t met the masters of sustained pain and suffering until you have met Maj. Fernando Alegret and the men of Cuba’s Giron Brigade who served North Vietnam during our almost 20-year war with that country and its indigenous surrogates.

The engineering battalion maintained Route 9 of the Ho Chi Min trail. Their facilities included a POW camp and field hospital near the DMZ. Cuban interrogators also worked a a Hanoi prison called “the Zoo.”

Cuban imprisonment and torture of American servicemen was confirmed by surviving airmen who were repatriated in 1973.

Even more disturbing and perhaps more important was the transport of 17 of these men to Cuba for medical experiments in torture techniques. Some were held in Havana’s Los Maristas—a secret Cuban prison run by Castro’s intelligence service—while other Americans were sent to the Mazorra [psychiatric] Hospital, where they functioned as human guinea pigs to develop improved methods of inducing prisoners to cooperate and extract information through torture and drugs.

Prisoners who died on Cuban soil were secretly returned to North Vietnam for repatriation.

These acts of aggression and violation of all conventions of war and torture were publicly exposed through testimony before the House International Relations Committee on Nov. 4, 1999. Several currently serving congressmen were present at this testimony.

At the Zoo, Alegret—referred to as “Fidel” by the POWs—brutally beat our men. A zoo survivor described the treatment of a captured F–105 crew member: “He was completely catatonic. His body was ripped and torn everywhere. His cuffs appeared almost to sever his wrists. Slivers of bamboo were imbedded in his bloody shins. He was bleeding everywhere. Fidel smashed his fist into the man’s face driving him into the wall. In the center of the room he was forced to his knees. Screaming in rage, Fidel then repeatedly lashed his face as hard as he could with a rubber hose. He did not react, cry out or even blink an eye, which enraged Alegret, who continued beating him. He was not repatriated, but instead was listed as having died in captivity, with his remains returned in 1974.”

POWs held near Cong Truong Five along with two other Cuban-run camps were “never acknowledged or accounted for and they simply disappeared.”

Instead of destroying Castro’s regime with military action when these atrocities were confirmed, our politicians instituted tepid sanctions, and now this administration is ready to forget everything and embrace Castro with American blood on his hands? Outrageous!"

http://www.fredericksburg.com/opinion/co...a82f7b4e66.html

I'm sure that makes a cuba all the more attractive to 0.