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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
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Posted: Tue Oct  2 10:57:27 1984
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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
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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)
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