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Article: Cuban whipping boy.(United States relations with Cuba)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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Just days before the Cuban government shot down two private American Cessna planes flown by an anti-Castro group, the United States was tidying up a much larger catastrophe in the air, one that our own armed forces had created.
On July 3, 1988, the U.S.S. Vincennes shot down a civilian Iran Air Airbus jet over the Persian Gulf. All 290 people aboard were killed.
The Iranian jet was not invading U.S. air space; the Cessna planes were invading Cuba's.
The Iranian jet was not dropping leaflets on the United States, urging American citizens to overthrow the government; the Cessna planes had previously dropped leaflets urging ...