Posted on 04/19/2009 2:34:04 PM PDT by slickeroo
America’s Great Betrayal
By Humberto Fontova
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, April 17, 2009
"They fought like Tigers," wrote CIA officer Grayston Lynch, who helped train these Cuban freedom-fighters. "But their fight was doomed before the first man hit the beach."
Lynch, knew something about fighting – and about long odds. He carried scars from Omaha Beach, the Battle of the Bulge, and Heartbreak Ridge. But in those battles, Lynch and his band of brothers could count on the support of their own chief executive.
At the Bay of Pigs, Lynch and his band of Cuban brothers learned – first in speechless shock and finally in burning rage -- that their most powerful enemies were not Castro's Soviet-armed and led soldiers massing in Santa Clara, Cuba but the Ivy League's Best and Brightest dithering in Washington.
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Don’t worry, Obama’ll make sure that we can have our very own bay-of-pigs incident where American freedom-fighters are slaughtered! [/sarc][/cynic]
The Bay of Pigs happened to be one of Fidel Castro’s favorite fishing spots. They couldn’t have chosen a worse place to try a landing, one with typography Fidel knew thoroughly. Piss-poor intelligence.
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