This column is a complete lie.

WBAI/Pacifica should at least try to hide their lies when engaging in revisionist history.

First of all, saying the medical students were not in danger after a coup that killed over 100 people, resulted in the assassination of the former leader (that prime minister tag is self-imposed, there were no democratic elections on that island) Bishop, and there was a curfew on the entire island is ridiculous. There were demonstrations everywhere and the place was in virtual chaos during the coup.

That kills Rojas's statement, because by the time U.S. forces moved in, Bishop was dead - not killed by U.S. troops, but by the same men who helped him oust the former leader in the first place.

There was no doubt that Castro wanted to make Grenada a Cuban satellite. That's probably why the communists arrested and eventually killed Bishop, and why U.S. forces killed almost 60 Cubans, wounded 25, and hundreds more were returned to Havana.

Those weren't simply contractors. Nor was it paranoia when U.S. forces found not simple small arms, but rocket launchers, patrol boats, antiaircraft guns, and howitzers; enough to arm over 10,000 people. There were also Soviets in Grenada as well. So trying to pretend this was a little innocent country that wasn't doing a thing and wasn't under communist influence was an absolute lie.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/peopleevents/pande07.html
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/printer_159.shtml
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"What I am describing now is a plan and a hope for the long term -- the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people." - Evil Empire Speech, June 8, 1982