Yeah... thanks for throwing out a bunch of Cubans who were building a bomber base in which to provide air coverage throughout the Caribbean basin (Cuba, Nicaragua, Grenada).
And thanks for throwing out the 780 cuban "workers", who dropped their tools and picked up their AK-47s to fight...
And the Grenadian people thanked us more than you ever could:
"The thing that is most indelibly in scribed in my mind," said Brooks, 'in regard to Grenada, was how incredibly happy they were to see us." Brooks, on the fourth day of the operation, flew into Grenada with Admiral Wesley L. McDonald, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command, who had over all command of Urgent Fury.
"The people came up to Admiral McDonald--and they had no way of knowing who he was--shook his hand and said, 'Thank you and God bless you.' We encountered this all through St. George's," Brooks said. 'People were leaning Out of windows and saying 'God bless America.'
"As we were passing a street corner, three ladies were dressed up in their Sunday best. One of them held up her index finger and said, 'Reagan number one.' Then the ladies had a brief confab and I guess it must have been ladies day, because then one of the others said, 'Eugenia Charles (prime minister of Dominica) number one; Reagan number two!"' Brooks said, laughing.
"Uniformly and universally, they were very, very happy to see us there," he said. "I thought it must have been like it was a generation earlier, when Europe was liberated during World War II. We hadn't anticipated anything like that."
The Grenadians showed their appreciation with more than words. They gave away fresh fruit, ice water and cases of soft drinks. At Pearls Airport, they cooked rice, meat and fruit for the Marines. The gratitude of the people was a great reward for the members of the peacekeeping force. It made the hard ships endured worthwhile and made the troops feel they had done something very noble, that they were very much needed and appreciated.
"Morale is sky high," Faulkner said proudly. "One reason is how well we were received by the Grenadians. We were not treated as conquerors, but as friends of the people."
In fact, according to a survey done by an independent Caribbean firm, 87 per cent of the Grenadians believed the intervention by the Caribbean peacekeeping force was a "good thing." Only three percent didn't believe the intervention was justified.
That positive reaction came despite a heavy anti-American campaign by the New Jewel Movement.
"The Grenadians had obviously been fed a lot of anti-American doctrine," Brooks said. "We saw a lot of that down there. But it didn't take, which must have frustrated the Marxist leadership."
Fortunately, the Grenadians were so glad to see the Caribbean peacekeeping force that they turned in suspected PRA soldiers, and helped lead their rescuers to hidden arms caches. The PRA soldiers were questioned and, unless they were part of the upper echelon of the Grenadian military establishment, were released.
The remaining Cubans who had not been captured fled to the Cuban or Soviet embassies and were later flown to Cuba.
history.navy.mil
And another link for you, where it is shown that the Governor General of Grenada INVITED us and other Caribbean Nations to help:
fas.org
"Following a breakdown in civil order, U.S. forces, in conjunction with contingents of the security forces of several neighboring Caribbean states, invaded the independent state of Grenada on October 25 in response to an appeal from the governor general and to a request for assistance from the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States. The mission was to oust the People's Revolutionary Government, to protect U.S. citizens and restore the lawful government."
We were the MAIN force involved, but NOT THE ONLY ONE...
"In total, an invasion force of 1,900 U.S. troops, reaching a high of about 5,000 in five days, and 300 troops from the assisting neighboring islands encountered about 1,200 Grenadians, 780 Cubans, 49 Soviets, 24 North Koreans, 16 East Germans, 14 Bulgarians, and 3 or 4 Libyans. Within three days all main objectives were accomplished. Five hundred ninety-nine (599) Americans and 80 foreign nationals were evacuated, and U.S. forces were successful in the eventual reestablishment of a representative form of government in Grenada."
Did you note those North Koreans? Why would they be there, let alone East Germans, Bulgarians, and Libyans.
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Yeah... Chomsky should have been there to see the greeting those "evil" Americans received from the locals. I wasn't there either, but I had several buddies who were, and they all verified they were greeted and treated like saviours.
Personally, I've been on missions in Central America where the average person TRULY appreciates having the Americans there to help them. In one place I was assigned for a month, the people admitted that their own government didn't give a crap about them and that the Americans were the ones who did the greatest good.
We were there to build and refurbish some open air schools.. In one village, there was a big storage shed where a bunch of building materials were located. I did some snooping and pooping and discovered that these materials had been obtained for refurbishing the schools 6 months before, but then they learned our troops would be bringing our own stuff. Well, the village chieftain, who was fairly corrupt, refused to permit us to use some of those materials to build some extra desks, shelves, and other projects.
Why? Because he didn't want to give any of it up.. It was POWER for him... Favors he could parcel out in exchange for loyalty from the local villagers.
Well, we put a quick stop to that and "disenfranchised" him rather quickly, passing out the materials to locals who needed them to refurbish their own homes and property. After all, we'd brought our own stuff and the stuff the cheiftain was holding had been paid for by the Panamanian government (and reimbursed by the US), so he had NO RIGHT to try and hold it for his own political power...
Pissed him off BIG TIME, and he knew that I was the one who had "tattled" on him, which pretty much made me persona non grata to anyone of his closest loyalists. But the rest of the village thought I was the coolest thing they'd laid eyes on.. Everyone was offering me free stuff -sweet roasted coconut, pineapples, bananas...etc-, and thanking myself and our other guys for helping them..
I probably could have been elected mayor of the villiage had I ran... :0)
So maybe you need to reassess your thinking Tommie boy... Better yet... why don't you join the peace corp and figure out how the REAL WORLD works...
You've never bothered to take the time to disgrace a military uniform, and sit back in your own little world unaware that greater evils that American policy exist in this sick world.
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