Fidel Castro, Cuba's leader from 1959 to 2008, on Sunday slammed U.S. officials' recent "frenzied travels" around the world.
"We see around us a great frenzy, as though we lived in Bedlam," Castro said in a column entitled "Bush in the Sky," carried in the Juventud Rebelde newspaper.
Condoleezza Rice, U.S. secretary of state, has traveled to Brazil, Chile and Russia. The nation's vice-president, Dick Cheney,has traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan, the latter now the world's largest heroin producer thanks to a U.S. intervention there, Castro said.
"In these hands lies humanity's fate with blood and profit," said Castro, who stepped down in February and was replaced by his younger brother Raul.
Even John McCain, a presidential candidate from Bush's Republican Party, has joined the fray by flying to Iraq, he pointed out.
Millions have suffered in the Iraq War, trillions of U.S. dollars have been wasted, and 4,000 U.S. soldiers have died since the war started in 2003.
Castro also lashed out at the planned NATO summit in Romanian capital Bucharest in April. Bush is set to meet Rraian Basescu, Romania's president, in the Black Sea city of Neptun, a day before the meeting begins.
Source:Xinhua
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