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Nobody can predict how things will happen. The only thing we can say is how things should not happen.

Rosa Miriam Elizalde and Arleen Rodriguez Derivet

Granma newspaper offers a resume of a conversation held August 22 by Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro and Cuban journalists Randy Alonso, Arleen Rodriguez, Reinaldo Taladrid, Lazaro Barredo, Barbara Betancourt, Nidia Diaz, Oliver Zamora and Aixa Hevia, all usual panellists on the prime time TV show The Round Table Discussion.

Responding to a first comment by Journalist Lazaro Barredo saying that some believe that he has been writing as a prophet of doom, Fidel said that "maintaining such an opinion is a shame. And that it is convenient that some people be ashamed of their own ignorance. If people are ashamed of their ignorance, they will learn and if they learn we will have a hope."

Nobody wants war, he said. "Some are ready to do just anything—Israel--. Others are determined to fight the universal regime they want to impose on them—the most horrible world that could be there is the one that the group of millionaires [the Bilderberg Group] want to impose."

The problem—Fidel pointed out—is the new context emerging in this pre-war situation. "The minimum number of nuclear weapons existing today is calculated at 20,000. Cuban nuclear scientists affirm that there are 25,000 nuclear weapons and I have said that their destructive power is 450,000 times that of the bomb that devastated Hiroshima. Do you know how many weapons are needed to cause a total nuclear winter that casts a shade around the whole world? One hundred."

"Just a partial war, for instance, between India and Pakistan, just that war between two weak countries from the nuclear point of view, could produce that winter," Fidel said. With only 0.0004 percent of the existing 25,000 nuclear weapons they could lead the world into that nuclear winter. See how serious this problem is," he pointed out.

Journalists Randy Alonso and Reinaldo Taladrid recalled some information released last Saturday evening by The New York Times reading that the US administration had informed Israel that Iran will not have nuclear capacity until at least one year; therefore an attack plan is not necessary now.

Fidel answered that some journalist versions are saying that Iran is experiencing delays. "But for Israel, it is horrible that the Iranians are so close to having the nuke, no matter when. Even in three years. It is something the Israelis can not withstand. And this is a reason to attack, if the Americans do not attack."

Fidel Castro invited Daniel Estulin to Havana. Estulin is the author of a trilogy on the Bilderberg Club, a group made up of multimillionaires and influential politicians who gather every year in secret to decide the future of the world. "Speaking with him will help us increase, what I call the persuasive force," said Fidel.

Some of the 216 news wires that circulated around the world between June 1 and August 19 referred to the issue. "Now we are on the countdown of 90 days given by the UN Security Council for the inspection of Iranian ships. The countdown concludes on September 9. Will Iran be discouraged? What else has the US still to invent at the UN Security Council?

During this part of the conversation, Fidel Castro asked journalist Randy Alonso to read the draft of his latest article titled: "I am Ready to Continue the Discussion" in which he reiterates that President Barack Obama is the only one who can give the order to launch the nuclear weapon. And replying to a question by the journalists, Fidel insistedd on the role of Russia and China in the conflict: "If they get together to clearly tell Obama that he can avoid the conflict, their force could be enormous."

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During the conversation the Cuban Revolution leader and the journalists addressed issues relevant to the Americas. Fidel also referred to the risks facing a president with the characteristics of Obama. The dialog also focused the case of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters jailed in the US and the increasing possibilities for their release. "We have to see what will happen. US politicians are traveling around the world and they can’t find a solution. They are bogged down. If they use the nuclear weapons, everything will be untangled, but we have to avoid that. This is a new situation," Fidel said.

"However, all the current efforts will not be worthwhile if the nuclear war were predetermined," said Fidel and stressed that "the way events were evolving, it was precisely what would happen. But Obama still has his finger on the trigger and he does not have much time to take a decision. Let’s prevent him from doing it. All we have to do, we must do it now."

August 23th, 2010

(Cubaminrex-Granma)

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