My good friend Fran Fitzpatrick swears he was involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion. He's old enough and was also serving in the Navy at the time. His story slightly unravels when he tells of his landing craft being disabled by shore fire and then escaping from Castro's forces by walking hundreds of kilometers through hostile territory to the US military base at Guantanamo Bay.
Personally I believe Fran. He had taken Spanish in high school. No telling how far a few words in the native tongue can get you.
Guantanamo Bay disappeared off the radar of national unconsciousness until GW Bush established a special prison for 'foreign combatants' captured by US and other forces fighting the War on Terror. Civil rights were eliminated thanks to White House rulings on torture supported overwhelmingly by a vengeful American public, however this 6 year abnegation of the Constitution has seemingly come to an end with the Supreme Court decision 5-4 that the prisoners have a right to appeal their cases in an American court of justice.
GW Bush was fast to say he was unhappy with the decision.
"Some of these people were trying to kill my father. Some of them were trying to kill you. And if they're let go they'll show up at a 7/11 and blow you to bits."
This ruling will not free the 270 detainees, 100 of whom are Yemenis. Nor will it free the secret prisoners in the clandestine prisons scattered across the world. That justice will have to await GW Bush's 3rd term in office.
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