Posted on 09/23/2011 4:43:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Billions would have died in the nuclear holocaust. But this was the plan from the Latin American warmonger Che Guevara, who's face is emblazoned on T-shirts around the globe:
“What?!” Khrushchev gasped upon reading Castro’s telegram on Oct. 28 1962. “Is he proposing that we start a nuclear war? That we launch missiles from Cuba? But that is insane! Remove them (our missiles) as soon as possible! Before its too late!” instructed the Soviet premier.
So much for the Camelot fable of JFK “standing up to the Russians,” during the Missile Crisis Khrushchev “blinked” alright. But at Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s genocidal lust–not at JFK’s flaccid threats.
“I’m proud of the path of Osama bin Laden,” gushed Ilich Ramírez Sánchez from a French prison in 2002. Ramirez was also known during the 1970’s as “Carlos the Jackal,” and “The World’s Most Wanted Terrorist.” In 1967 Ramirez-Sanchez was an eager recruit into Cuba’s “guerrilla” (terror) training camps started by Che Guevara in 1959.
“Bin Laden has followed a trail I myself blazed,” he continued during an interview with the London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat. “I followed news of the September 11 attacks on the United States non-stop from the beginning. I can’t describe that wonderful feeling of relief!”
“We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies’ very home,” raved Carlos the Jackal’s idol and spiritual mentor (Che Guevara) in his Message to the Tri-Continental Conference in 1966, “to his places of work and recreation. The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him! These hyenas are fit only for extermination. We must keep our hatred (against the U.S.) alive and fan it to paroxysm!”
The next time you see someone with a Che shirt, tell them how much you like it. Ask them if they have a stylish Hitler or Stalin shirt you could borrow.
Che Guevara, 1966???
I thought that was Michelle Obama last week.
LOL! This is sort of funny. Carlos the Jackal loves Obama to start. I like the fact the Russians park missiles in Cuba then realize Fidel and Che are insane.
I am sure this was a bigger reason than weening JFK getting tough. The Camelot fantasy libs said Jack was tough but his weakness almost caused WW3. This sounds more like the truth. The Russians are not stupid and probably thought Fidel was nuts.
Horse Puckey.!! Che Guevara was a third rate street punk
romanacised by the left wing press.
None of Russia’s missels in Cuba were operational at the time of
the famous “Blink”. and Nakita knew that 90 percent of our responce were armed and ready warheads that were aimed right at his ass. Fidel and Che had a dream that’s all.
Bump to investigate how reliable this is.
Khrushchev did not want a nuclear war. He was a political commissar during World War II - a war in which the Soviet Union suffered over 20 million people killed. A nuclear war would have been even more devastating to the Soviet Union.
JFK started out his first days in office with the Bay of Pigs. He had been firmly warned by Dwight Eisenhower to the effect that you should never start a war you don’t intend to win.
But, sure enough, he let the Cubans go in, and then chickened out and failed to back them up. He showed himself to be incredibly weak and incompetent.
And he spent the rest of his time in office trying to prove to the USSR that he really was tougher than he seemed, with very mixed results.
In the Cuban Missile Crisis he hemmed and he hawed, and finally he agreed to pull our medium range defensive missiles out of Europe. Thus he proved his weakness yet again, although of course the press portrayed it in quite another light.
Kennedy was a womanizing incompetent who stole the election with the help of LBJ and Mayor Daley. He was just about the last person to fit the honorable and knightly role of “Camelot.”
I’m willing to believe it. From reading the Vasily Mitrokhin books on the KGB’s foreign files, the Soviets backed Castro for his strategic significance...but otherwise considered him a major pain in the rear. Che simply loved killing, and Castro’s hatred of the US went waaaay beyond mere Marxist-Leninist issues.
You summed him up, short and (not so) sweet!
So, Khrushchev pulled the missiles out before they were operational! He did not want any chance of an operational missile being launched by those insane Fidelistas.
SCORE ONE FOR THE GOOD GUYS!
But wasn’t Khrushchev ultimately removed from power for “backing down”?
Castro wanted Che gone too, he was becoming a PITA to Castro.
Well, true, I didn’t mention Vietnam, another war he started but apparently without the intention of winning it. But that was a more complicated business, and it went on past his assassination.
The Berlin wall was another one of Kennedy’s “accomplishments”, possibly a result of his Bay of Pigs retreat.
Ike started Vietnam, JFK just expanded it.
That is why Castro sent him to Bolivia.
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