Look, Over There!
Dec 28th, 2005 at 5:45 am by Susie
Yeah, this is really stupid - and typical of “symbolic” (as opposed to substantive) BushCo policies:
NEW YORK — U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Peter Ueberroth called on the American government to reverse its decision to deny Cuba’s national baseball team permission to play in the United States, keeping it out of next year’s World Baseball Classic.
Ueberroth, a former U.S. Major League Baseball commissioner and head of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, said last week’s decision by the Treasury Department to deny Cuba a permit to play in the 16-team event will damage American efforts to host the Olympics in the future. Olympic host countries must guarantee all nations can participate.
Actually it’s more than symbolic, it’s a very real attempt to deny Cuba money, money which could be used for things like this.