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China Daily | Updated: 2009-08-21 07:59
Fidel Castro slams US
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro criticized the United States on Wednesday for being willing to spend billions on its high-tech military but finding it difficult to approve healthcare reform that would protect its poor people.
He wrote in a commentary published on a state-run Internet site that huge military budgets are approved easily by the US Congress but US President Barack Obama is struggling to convince federal lawmakers to pass a bill that would "deliver health services to 50 million Americans that don't have them."
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