As we have previously reported, the regime has shown stolen (snicker!) copies of the Bush-hating fantasy film "Fahrenheit 9/11" in cinemas for weeks and broadcast it on dictatorship-run TV the night of Kerry's acceptance speech at the Democrat convention.

Kerry is Havana's choice because ol' President Bush isn't soft on communism, a Los Angeles Times reporter who visited the island police state reported today.

"We know President Bush will continue to abuse us, but the other one says he will let Americans travel here," the Times quoted waitress Mayda Garcia as saying.

"The other one"? We know he's dull, but still that's mighty poor name recognition after months of pro-Kerry propaganda in the American and Cuban media.

"We hope you will be free after the election," Gray Davis' favorite paper quoted one Lisbet Rivero as saying. "We want to see millions of Americans coming here."

Really? On makeshift rafts, Lisbet?

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