22 Feb
2003
22 Feb
'03
7:09 a.m.
> 1961 : The U.S. attempts to overthrow the
revolutionary Cuban
> government at the Bay of Pigs.
> We shouldn't have tried to prevent it because it's none of ourbusiness.
> I think Cuba is worse off with Castro, but it just simply isn't our place
> to change that. That is for the people of Cuba to do.
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Mail List wrote:
We were genuinely worried about Castro's wanting
to have nukes only
90 miles offshore of the US mainland. Right or wrong, it was a real danger
we wanted not to have happen.
The "Bay of Pigs" was NOT the "Cuban Missile Crisis"
That happened later. At the time of the "Bay of Pigs", missiles were NOT
an issue.