Grenada Invasion event
also: U.S. invasion, American action, overthrow it, overthrowing of Grenada, U.S. invasion of Grenada, coup, went into Grenada, rescuing all the medical students, Grenada overthrow
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Claims (7)
CIA covered_up
Grenada Invasion host_asserted
“you find out that it was really just to rescue another pipeline that the CIA was using for nefarious operations. And whatever the intelligence that they were provided that made it such an imminent threat was all a lie. Yeah, that's the infu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 1:09:55
Tom Adams supported
Grenada Invasion documented
“that they didn't get to slough off and slack responsibility for their neighbors. The leaders of the nearby Caribbean states, particularly Tom Adams of Barbados and Eugenia Charles of Dominica, who were prime supporters of the invasion, evid…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 47:05
Eugenia Charles supported
Grenada Invasion documented
“that they didn't get to slough off and slack responsibility for their neighbors. The leaders of the nearby Caribbean states, particularly Tom Adams of Barbados and Eugenia Charles of Dominica, who were prime supporters of the invasion, evid…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 47:05
United States covered_up
Grenada Invasion host_asserted
“And here's another quote from a Marine. I want to F communism out of this little island. And then he went on to say, and F it right back to Moscow. Another quote, Britain announced that it was sending a destroyer to assist in the rescue, sa…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 1:00:28
Chile supported
Grenada Invasion documented
“It was an entire program called Grenada Return to Freedom. Like you've been you lost your freedom under Bishop. The invasion was almost universally condemned throughout Latin America. Only the American installed dictatorships of Chile, Guat…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 1:03:21
Guatemala supported
Grenada Invasion documented
“It was an entire program called Grenada Return to Freedom. Like you've been you lost your freedom under Bishop. The invasion was almost universally condemned throughout Latin America. Only the American installed dictatorships of Chile, Guat…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 1:03:21
Uruguay supported
Grenada Invasion documented
“It was an entire program called Grenada Return to Freedom. Like you've been you lost your freedom under Bishop. The invasion was almost universally condemned throughout Latin America. Only the American installed dictatorships of Chile, Guat…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 1:03:21
Mentions (21)
▶ 38:52
The Cuban government had expressed in no uncertain terms its distaste for the military revolutionary council, which is what overthrew Bishop. Before the U.S. invasion, Castro had blamed Bishop's death on grave errors by extremists. Yeah, li…
▶ 39:21
because they murdered people. He had turned down a request from them for more troops when the American action seemed imminent. So Cuba would not even come to his defense, even though it was against the big boogeyman, the United States. The …
▶ 39:47
Within a couple of days, the Soviet Union was also out there condemning the U.S. invasion as basically a daring cavalry attack armed to the teeth. He referred to it as basically white settlers taking over an Indian village. The Soviet Union…
▶ 40:36
Lastly, the question of why Cuba or the Soviet Union would have needed Grenada as a springboard for their dastardly deeds in Latin America when there was already Cuba seems a little odd. After the invasion, after the overthrow of the Grenad…
▶ 44:15
A guy by the name of Nicholas Brathwaite, who was the chairman of the U.S. approved interim government following the invasion, said to the Guardian, quote, readily praised basically Bishop's government for giving Grenadians new awareness, s…
▶ 58:58
So there was that. Now, as for the invasion itself, 2,000 American Marines and paratroopers the first day, by week's end, 7,000 on the island, even more waiting offshore. Planes bombing everything, destroying all manner of structures, inclu…
▶ 1:01:25
And then, again, just to reiterate, 135 American military killed as a result of this, or killed or wounded, sorry. The land conquered. There remained the people's hearts and minds, which at the onset was done via radio stations and a huge p…
▶ 1:03:21
It was an entire program called Grenada Return to Freedom. Like you've been you lost your freedom under Bishop. The invasion was almost universally condemned throughout Latin America. Only the American installed dictatorships of Chile, Guat…
▶ 1:05:00
Colonel, can you hear me? I can. Okay. You can't hear Alpha? Apparently, Alpha, drop out, and I'll bring you back up, okay? All right. Now I've got to find the guy. Okay. Hang on a second. Ah, there he is. He's right here. Okay. Thank you. …
▶ 1:01:40
Afghanistan and Nicaragua, you can make an argument, but I'm not going to make that argument. I mean, the Afghans, the People's Democratic Party was communist and was Soviet-backed Marxist-Leninist, but we know about other influences on Afg…
▶ 1:02:09
Grenada, however you say it. Their people's revolutionary government, what's called the New Jewel Movement, was absolutely explicitly Marxist-Leninist, and we overthrew them in 1983. So I got one example. That's it. That's all I got. One ou…
▶ 1:02:40
What was he doing that warranted his overthrow? Top of my head? Go ahead. You'll come up with it quicker than I have. I've got that. He actually wasn't doing anything. The entire premise of the overthrowing of Grenada was that our medical s…
▶ 1:03:10
taken prisoner. You can go back and read the articles, but they were in dire straits. They feared for their lives. The school that they were attending there was going to be attacked any minute. None of that was true. Every one of those medi…
▶ 1:07:31
Well, it's all part of the Cold War scare-mongering and justification of all of our actions. Obviously, that's the case. We've always known that. Yes. I just wanted to know if there are actually Marxist roots or not, and so I did the homewo…
▶ 1:08:58
I'll make sure I note that exception in the future. Sunshine, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. How are you doing? I just was listening to Warhamster's story, and I thought it was funny. I have a very good friend that was a ranger in 83. He went into…
▶ 1:10:25
And they never knew what they were fighting for. And you talk about Grenada. You and I have talked all the time about how most of these times we do our regime-shamed stuff, it's for the multinational corporations because we want to exploit …
▶ 19:25
Range aircraft like C-130s could use it on air missions. Here again, Secord turned to Gad, who once boasted, give me an account number and I'll fly anywhere. He had done just that, moving Task Force 160 helicopters to Barbados for the Grena…
▶ 1:00:19
Urgent Fury 1983, that is the Grenada overthrow. And that is going on while the mafia and the CIA are trying to corner the market on the spice industry in Grenada. That's not a coincidence, people. Thank you for putting that up, Ray. Bridge…
▶ 5:35
We were driving down the road at 70 miles an hour with the windows open. So I forgot to mention that part. Anyway, back to the story. So then, you know, we did Grenada. The one excuse where the guy may have actually been a communist that we…
▶ 6:07
to having an actual communist, even though we were told every single one of them was a communist, hands down communist. So War Hamster and Brady had to find one that may have been one. And Grenada was it. You know, that tiny little island t…
▶ 12:29
bit of that money was siphoned off by the ISI to fund their nuclear program as well. So yeah, we bought that too. And oh, by the way, then they later on sell it to Iran. Yeah, so in a way, everything circles back around to us. We fund all o…