If we could ask Ike, he might well say that the plans were in the works but not ready, or that they may have been contingency plans, or that the plans had been developed but rejected as impractical.  We'll never know.

Truman said, "The buck stops here."  Kennedy, to his credit, accepted responsibility for the failure of the Bay of Pigs.  Today's MSM says, it's always the Republicans' fault. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

In turning his back on the Bay of Pigs invasion, Kennedy invited missiles into Cuba with his show of weakness.

Then he gets to play the hero by standing up to the Russians who wouldn't have had the b*lls to arm Cuba in the first place.

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JFK was never a hero. Driving your boat in front of a ship, getting it destroyed and your crew killed would result in a court martial (for anyone else), unless old man Joe and several congress critters ran overseas to bail him out. Actually JFK was more in line with phony hero Hanoi John Kerry than anyone else.

Old, Retired and glad of it.

Ask the remaining Cubanos still living how they feel about Red Jack Kennedy. Especially Brigade 2506, if there is any of them left. They still don't have the warm fuzzy's about him I'll bet.  

I guess that's the result you get when you pull the rug out from under someone, they tend to not trust you very much after that. Yeah Kennedy lacked the cajones over this event. But he listened to Dean Rusk, Frickin' Bob McNamara and undoubtedly Johnson as well, not to mention Bobby. These rascals are every bit as culpable as he is, especially that devil McNamara. 

We'd better pick someone else to write the history of that event.  Khrushchev and Castro both figured out Kennedy was a paper tiger and called his damn bluff. 40 years and billions of dollars for that botched play.  And to think these numbskulls think it was DDE fault. They are, and continue to be, fools.

For that matter, Kennedy would not have faced such a harsh early tutorial if the venerable warrior and statesman Dwight D. Eisenhower had not allowed the Cuba-invasion plan to be put in motion during the last of his eight years as President.

  Are they saying Eisenhower should have 'child-proofed' the Whitehouse before he left so that those coming in wouldn't get into trouble because they weren't ready to play with the big boys?

As Rush likes to joke, "Liberals think that history began when they got out of bed this morning". (Did I get that right?)

Due to their public school educations, or for whatever reason, they seem to have no grasp of history's facts or reality. Every Republican president of the 20th century was to them a chickenhawk warmonger or an imperialist stooge of the military/industrial complex. Yet what history tells us, and liberals are unable to comprehend, is that almost every 20th century major military conflict the US got involved in, with hundreds of thousands of brave Americans sacrificing their lives (for foreign ingrates), was initiated by a Democrat President supported by a Democrat congress. I don't mean to say that this country's efforts were wrong- they weren't. But can you imagine a Republican congressman demanding impeachment hearings for FDR in 1942, when the war looked unwinnable?

As for Eisenhower/Kennedy and Cuba, yes the Bay of Pigs was a tragedy and a fiasco. But it was relatively harmless compared to what almost happened with the missile crisis. Kennedy brought this country closer to all out nuclear war than any other president in history. That nuclear conflict would have cost millions of American lives. Why don't liberals ever mention total nuclear anihilation when they reminisce about Camelot?

... to carry it out.

As chance would have it, while on vacation, I walked into a friends hotel suite and heard this dunce blame the failed invasion on Ike. I waited for someone, anyone to step up to set his delusion straight, not a peep!

Fox News wouldn't have let his historic revision slide like it was nothing. He should have followed up with D-day was a failure because so many men died.

For the record Richardo, the plan would have worked had Kennedy not bailed at the last minute. My wife's uncle survived Kennedy's fiasco and was left to rot in a Cuban sewer for two and a half years. Most of the other paratroopers were shot out of the sky like flying pigs. This is one of the reasons Cubans do not trust Democrats.

Today, we are faced with electing another Senator (help us all). Lets at least vote for the one who can beat me in a hand of Go Fish.  

"It's not so much experience. It's temperament. It's your judgment. It's all of those things that experience contributes to."

Since when has judgment (or temperament) trumped experience when deciding on a particular course of action? My judgment in any situation is based upon my past experiences in similar situations. If I have little or no experience in particular situations, I will most likely make poor judgments in said situations as I have little or no idea as to the possible outcomes of my actions. Also, my temperament is similarly influenced by my past experiences. Since both temperament and judgment is deeply influenced by experience, I would say that experience trumps all other attributes combined, especially in a leadership position like the presidency.

"As Kennedy's plans evolved, critical details were changed that were to hamper chances of a successful mission without overt U.S. military support. These revised details included changing the landing area for Brigade 2506 to two points in Matanzas Province, 202 km southeast of Havana on the eastern edge of the Zapata peninsula at the Bay of Pigs. The landings would take place on the Girón and Zapatos Larga beaches. This change effectively cut off contact with the rebels of the "War Against the Bandits" uprising in the Escambray Mountains. The Castro government also had been warned by senior KGB agents Osvaldo Sánchez Cabrera and "Aragon", who died violently before and after the invasion, respectively.[6]The U.S. government was aware that a high casualty rate was possible."

Stengel, wikipedia is your friend.

 I think not, they are setting up the fall back position for when hussien obama blows it.