"The regime in Havana, already one of the worst human rights violators in the world, is adding to its crimes," Bush said. "The dictator welcomes sex tourism."

The regime? The dictator? We've heard this somewhere before.

The White House has "put a strategy in place to hasten the day when no Cuban child is exploited to finance a failed revolution and every Cuban will live in freedom," Bush added.

Every Cuban, living in freedom? Oh, here we go.

Bush is getting ready to invade.

Think about it: In the run-up to the Iraq war, Bush often used "the dictator" instead of Saddam Hussein's proper name, and "the regime" to talk about Hussein's government. And he promised that every Iraqi would live in freedom, which they sort of do, if you don't count the interim government's martial law powers.

And now it's Cuba's turn.

It makes sense. An invading Bush would be an instant hit in Florida, a must-win state in this election year. He'd be canonized in the Cuban ex-pat community, and those folks vote. And he'd erase one of the last outposts of communism, something the Democrat John F. Kennedy failed to do in the infamous Bay of Pigs debacle.

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