Hawke wrote:
"Cliff" wrote in message
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On 5 May 2006 14:29:46 GMT, D Murphy wrote:

Cliff wrote in
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"Invasion"? Castro invaded Cuba?

Yup.

The boat was named Granma or something like that. You should do a little
reading about him if you're interested. Batista had let Castro out of
prison early, on his earlier conviction of attempting to overthrow the
government. Castro lived in various places afterward including the U.S.
and
Mexico, all the while trying to get money and buy arms to fund his
revolution. His bunch also had professional military training and had a
plan. Unlike the Cuban military, which was largely youngsters with little
formal training or equipment. Most fled at the first sounds of gun fire.

Sounds just like the CIA & the Bay of Pigs ....


What makes me laugh is the revisionist history that makes life in Cuba under
Batista sound like a paradise for the Cuban people. Who is he kidding. Cuba
was always one of the poorest places in this part of the world. Any success
and wealth was strictly limited to the upper class that was associated with
Batista. Everybody else was dirt poor and got nothing from the government.
It was a lot like Mexico, which has over 40% in poverty and a large number
of billionaires, only worse. Castro is no angel, that's for sure. But the
lives of average Cubans are far better under his dictatorship than Batistas.
Unfortunately, a dictatorship is still a dictatorship, and things could be a
lot better there. Especially if the US wasn't continuing to wage an economic
war against it.

Hawke

And now we have the classic lib-tard flip-flop. Get used to it folks,
it's all you'll be seeing from the Demoncrap hopefulls as the
congressional elections draw closer.

Till