Looking For REAL Change

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com Bush noted that Communist repression continues in Cuba: The president said the global community has largely remained silent in recent months, even as dozens of young Cubans wearing "change" bracelets were arrested, as Cuban authorities raided a Catholic church to spray parishioners with tear gas and drag them away. Last weekend, activists distributing copies of the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights were pushed and beaten. The President emphatically rejected the idea that the U.S. somehow needs to meet Cuba's dictatorship halfway: The only way for relations to improve between Cuba and the United States, he said, is for the government there to pave the way for free and fair elections, release all political prisoners and respect human rights "in word and deed." "What needs to change is not the United States; what needs to change is Cuba," the president said. President Bush continues to be the most eloquent spokesman for freedom on the world stage.