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Old Jul 31, 2011, 6:39 pm
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Did they sell any seats?

If that plane went out empty they should have illustrated to the Cuban people the strength of our economy, our capitalist system and our generous nature, and offered seats out of Havana for anyone who would care to show up at the airport - cash on the nail for tickets of course. Would have helped UAL's revenue, the debt ceiling and the US Treasury balance of payments deficit, and shown us in such a good light. Cigar light that is. And the cargo hold should have been jamned full of cigars too.

I assume this was a practice run for the opening up of Cuba's beaches after we do a Nixon-Vietnam style declaration of winning this 50 year old debacle.
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