http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/2/2/170406.shtml
Castro Calls Bush 'Deranged'
In his first public remarks since the United States dubbed Cuba an outpost of tyranny, Fidel Castro called President Bush "deranged" and belittled recent improvements in relations between Cuba and Europe. In a televised address late Tuesday, Castro maintained his trademark go-it-alone attitude, saying his communist-run island is a paradise that is doing fine without the help of the United States or Europe.
Speaking at an international pedagogy conference in Havana, Castro referred only briefly to comments by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who last month identified Cuba, Myanmar, Belarus and Zimbabwe as "outposts of tyranny" that would require close U.S. attention. He said if the mission of Bush's administration was to crush tyranny, "our mission is to defeat empires."
The Cuban leader, wearing his olive green military uniform, linked Bush's government to corruption and torture. He said he closely watched the U.S. leader's inauguration speech Jan. 20 and saw "the face of a deranged person."
"If only it were just the face," he said to roars of applause by educators from 52 countries at the conference.
The Cuban leader also warned against a potential invasion by the United States, a theme often repeated in public addresses. Washington has said repeatedly it has no plans to attack the Caribbean island.
"If they make the mistake of attacking this country, well, Mr. Bush, or whoever will be there, I recommend to you it would be better if you use 50 nuclear bombs to exterminate all of us," he said.
Castro staunchly defended Cuba's socialist system, which the Bush administration has openly said should be replaced with a democratic, free-market one.
"This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word," he said. "And I say [to Bush], we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell."
The really sad part is that he sounds far more lucid than Teddy Kennedy.