Castro: The Greater Threat

You really have to wonder just how obtuse the Bush Administration thinks the 'American people' are?

Exhibit #34679

Washington-AP -- It has Democrats and Republicans in Congress wondering if the administration's priorities are in the right place.

A Treasury Department agency that blocks the financial resources of terrorists has four full-time workers tracking down the wealth of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

The same agency has five times as many agents investigating Cuban embargo violations.

Those figures -- as of the end of last year -- were provided to Max Baucus, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.

Documents show that the Office of Foreign Assets Control opened just 93 enforcement investigations related to terrorism between 1990 and 2003. During that same time, it opened more than ten-thousand investigations of possible Cuba embargo violations.

The Treasury Department responds that it fully uses its resources against anyone who might harm the U-S -- "be they terrorist thugs or fascist dictators."

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Source: AP Wire.

Hard to know what to say. People never find out about these important but underreported stories.