U.S. Boots Step On A Caribbean Flea (Mickey Z.)

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(Does This Sound Familiar?)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Sept. 29, 2006 -- Near the end of October, we will mark the twenty-third anniversary of a momentous American victory... a military operation that not only warmed Ronald Raygun's cold, cold heart but was also deemed film-worthy by the former mayor of Carmel, California. Yes, of course, I'm talking about the Oct. 25, 1983, "liberation" of Grenada.

In March 1979, socialist leader Maurice Bishop took over Grenada in a bloodless coup. Once deemed "a lovely piece of real estate" by U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, Grenada is a small East Caribbean island of some 133 square miles and 110,000 inhabitants. Half of its nationals live in the People's Republic of Brooklyn.

The United States worked to destabilize the Bishop regime but, in early October 1983, he was ultimately deposed and later murdered by a group even more to the "Left" than he. That's when America decided to risk awakening this sleeping Caribbean flea by launching a preemptive military strike.

Raygun declared that the invasion was "forced on us by events that have no precedent in the eastern Caribbean," leaving the United States with "no choice but to act strongly and decisively." (Sound familiar?) After adding the obligatory statements about Soviet and Cuban designs on the island, the Great Communicator sent roughly 2,000 American Marines in to lead an operation called "Urgent Fury." The fighting was over in a week. Casualties included 135 Americans killed or wounded along 84 Cubans and some 400 Grenadians dead.

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