Posted on 04/15/2016 10:22:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
***“But their fight was doomed before the first man hit the beach.”***
A Kennedy stab in the back. No planes. No ammo. Kennedy simply wished them luck AFTER they landed.
NEVER trust a Democrat!
This was the first time a U.S. backed effort had been defeated in the western hemisphere.
The Democrats in the State Department had brought Castro into power. They had betrayed the Cuban underground and had provided Castro with the exact site and date and time of the doomed landing.
The self described Best and the Brightest of the Kennedy administration then betrayed the Cubans by leaving them stranded to be killed or captured and imprisoned and tortured.
This was the beginning of one failed operation after another by the Best and Brightest Kennedy and Johnson administrations. It was the beginning of a 20 year decline of America that was not reversed until the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
One of my co-workers was one of the La Brigada 2506. I forgot how many years he was imprisoned after he was captured on the beach.
So, Kennedy deserted the Cuban freedom fighters he had sent to Cuba, just like Mrs. Clinton deserted the Americans in Benghazi! A blotch on American history in both cases.
son of a bootlegging ####.
worthless family from top to bottom.
good riddance.
Worth repeating.
“This was the first time a U.S. backed effort had been defeated in the western hemisphere.”
There are a few things that should be brought out.
One is that Eisenhower had been preparing the invasion before Kennedy, using the Green Beanies. When that pig-eyed, inbred, shanty Irish trash Kennedy was handed the reins, he took the operation away from the Army and gave it to the CIA.
In all fairness to the CIA, they didn’t really have time to get things together before the operation. In all fairness to the Cubans, the CIA did a terrible job. This might have been at the orders of Kennedy; I don’t know.
It kind of pisses me off that this CIA guy claims all the credit for training the Cubans.
If it was a Republican, he would have been driven from office. Him and his brother Bobby, 2 non military men running a military operation. You go to war to win.
2 non military men running a military operation...
that sounds familiar.
I’ve never understood why JFK allowed this operation to go forward if he was just going to let it founder like this.
Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama.
More than abundant evidence that a DemocRAT should never be entrusted as Commander-in-Chief of the US military; but, apparently, certain people never learn.
Kennedy did serve during WWII; that and his father’s ill-gotten money is what made him successful in politics.
Never the less, the only thing you can trust a Kennedy to do is just what he promised not to do and vice-versa. I was in high school during the Bay of Pigs and I hadn’t paid a lot of attention to politics up to that time. That changed in a hurry. The Kennedy-Johnson years were a disaster.
“I’ve never understood why JFK allowed this operation to go forward if he was just going to let it founder like this.”
Kennedy just wasn’t very bright. The bogfather had planned to buy the presidency for John’s older brother Joseph, but he was killed during WWII.
OTOH, Soviet agents were running amok throughout the government, so it could have been them.
The Best and the Brightest first delayed and then demanded the invasion be a day time operation at The Bay of Pigs. The Bay of Pigs was a terrible place to invade. It was isolated and precluded local help.
The people in charge then wanted to cancel the operation because it would fail.
They were persuaded to continue because they were promised air support.
The Russian and Cuban forces moved down a single road to get to the isolated Bay of Pigs. They would have been sitting ducks for coordinated air strikes. With effective air support and support of the underground it could of succeeded.
The Kennedy State department gave the Cubans information on the underground. Anti-Castro Cubans were betrayed, rounded up and arrested or killed.
The Cubans were not given naval support, supplies or air support. The invasion lasted three days. During that time Kennedy showed no leadership and the his advisers sabotaged the mission.
Eisenhower had been in charge of the largest successful amphibious invasion in history. The man in charge of the D-Day landings could have easily seen that Kennedy's plan was a disaster and could have never worked.
The self-described Best and Brightest of the Kennedy and Johnson administration failed at everything they did.
“Kennedy did serve during WWII; that and his father’s ill-gotten money is what made him successful in politics.”
That and the evilstream misleadia. Kennedy lost his boat through carelessness, and the media made him a hero. (Spit)
The media have long been the blood enemies of the US Constitution.
JFK pretended to take responsibility for what happened ("victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan"), then he and his best and brightest cooked up the "Tractors for Peace" plan -- trading US-made farm and construction equipment for the freedom of the Brigade. Kennedy was presented with a battle flag (or a commemorative one) by freed members, then promised it would be returned to them "in a free Havana".
Kennedy literally did not know what he was doing. He let advisers screw up the operation. He never bothered to thoroughly read through the documents or review the operation.
No, it was a CIA stab in the back. Kennedy was crystal clear at every step that there would be zero US military involvement. Allen Dulles later stated, CIA planners believed that once the troops were on the ground, Kennedy would authorize any action required to prevent failure.
They tried to strong arm him. He did exactly what he told them he would do and didn’t let the CIA and the Joint Chief morons start the war they wanted.
And some combination of the JCS/CIA/and he Cubes murdered him for it.
Oswald shot JFK, he acted alone, and any crazy conspiracy theory is just horsesh*t.
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