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Article: 20 years later, ghosts of U.S. invasion still haunt Grenada.(Progressive Media Project)
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- October 24, 2003
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Byline: Clifford E. Griffin
Before Iraq, there was Grenada.
Twenty years ago this month, the United States invaded this Caribbean island.
On Oct. 25, 1983, under the pretense of protecting about 700 U.S. medical students in Grenada _ who, by most accounts, were not in any real danger _ President Reagan ordered the U.S. military to invade. Code-named "Operation Urgent Fury," the goal was "to return Grenada to its democratic roots."
But in 1979, just a few years before the U.S. invasion, Grenada was already moving in a positive direction. With the overthrow of Prime Minister Eric Gairy, a brutal and corrupt dictator, the possibility of ...