America won't give criminal regimes oxygen

My heart was in my throat when I heard Bush announce that

America will have no part in giving oxygen to a criminal regime victimizing its own people. We will not support the old way with new faces, the old system held together by new chains.

Omigawd, I was thinking. China? Egypt? Russia? The Kingdom?

But then he finished up

The operative word in our future dealings with Cuba is not 'stability'. The operative word is 'freedom'.

Whew. Cuba.

That's a relief.