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I think I saw that one. I don't remember the Battle of Giron, a.k.a., the Bay of Pigs, because I was only two at the time. That said, the reason why it's called the Bay of Pigs is because the Cuban exiles who were landed in Cuba NEVER landed at Giron. They landed at the nearby Bay of Pigs. Colonel North knows what he's talking about. I don't pretend to know one-tenth of what he knows. The invasion failed because President Kennedy withdrew the promised air cover. Was it right? No, it wasn't. However, hindsight is 20/20, and saying that, maybe they should have kept their promise and sent in the air support. Would have made a difference? Maybe, maybe not. We don't know. Castro was, and still probably is, a bad man. If he's still alive, which is doubtful, then we'll have to consider the fact that he's dead and the Cuban government doesn't want to admit it. Then his successor, Hugo Chavez, will be the one who'll take over the roll of Public Enemy #1. As President Kennedy said in his speech after the failure of the Bay of Pigs. "Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan."

While watching War Stories A short time ago my opinion of both Col. North and his intelligence became suspect on Oliver North, Col North poured salt on the wounds of those of us persecuted by the Castro Dictatorship. The episode featured a narrative of the Battle of Giron ( April 17th 1961) or as the US far left likes to call it Bay of Pigs., He as a guess had none other than former Castro Comamander of Camaguey Province Huber Matos. This man Huber Matos was responsible for the death of hundreds of my countrymen while with Castro.Several hundreds of others including my father were imprisoned. The whole episode was the equivalent of a story on the Holocaust and having a former SS officer as guess. This Huber Matos later got into a "LOVER'S QUARREL" with Castro and was imprisoned under comfortable surroundings. When released he came to the US and became the darling of all those former(????) Castristas who came to the US not because of opposition to communism but because they eventually realized that the revolution did not include 2.9% financing on a new auto, or a mortgage on a suburban home.

I once admired and respected Col. North for his contributions against the spread of communism in Central America. But after watching War Stories my opinion of him took a serious nosedive.