Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cepu.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!bmcg!cepu!scw From: scw@cepu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: RE: Reagan's joke Message-ID: <352@cepu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 10:57:27 EDT Article-I.D.: cepu.352 Posted: Tue Oct 2 10:57:27 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 06:54:00 EDT References: <479@tty3b.UUCP> <1731@sdcc6.UUCP> <5971@mcvax.UUCP> <1843@ucbvax.ARPA> <234@digi-g.UUCP> <1957@ucbRe: RE: Reagan'> <429@uwvax.Tue, 2-Oct-84 07:57:27 PDT Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods) Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA Lines: 43 In article <429@uwvax.UUCP> myers@uwvax.UUCP writes: >>Whatever you are trying [...]ving Cuba another base from which to launch >>terrorist attacks against them. > >You bought Ronnie's disinformation hook, line, and sinker, no? The fact is >that the Cuban people, and [...] predicted that the US would take advantage >of this excuse (the military takeover) to invade Grenada. Bishop was murdered by the CUBAN trained & advised Army. Just because Castro 'bemoaned' the death of Bishop doesn't mean that Cuba had nothing to do with it. >Cuba refused to give any military aid to the military government even tho >it was, of course, requested. The Cuban workers who were there when Bishop >was killed were ordered to only defend themselves if attacked. Workers with heavy weapons? >Reagan and his cabinet clearly *lied* about several aspects of the invasion >operation, and it wasn't becau[...]quantities of Cuban soldiers and the >mass grave being found, both lies. The quantity and distribution of Cuban >citizens was found to be exactly the same as the Cuban government had >reported to Washington. The US is ALWAYS practicing landings, that's how you stay trained. The Soviet Union practices them too. I agree that the Mass grave story was untrue, it sounds like someone passed along a rumor. The quantity and distrbution of Cuban citizens was indeed on the close order of what Havana stated, but not the quality and equipment of same. >Yes, the military takeover in Grenada was as reprehensible as that by >f*cking Pinochet in Chile. However, this was a personal power play by >those involved in the plot[...] hesitate to say "we") was spoiling for >a chance to eradicate creeping socialism in all its manifestations? Well, perhaps Bishop was more interested in doing the right thing by his country that in doing what Havana/Moscow wanted. >Jeff Myers -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb, sdcrdcf}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-cs location: N 34 3' 9.1" W 118 27' 4.3"