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Operation Urgent Fury(Grenada)
25 Oct 2019 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 10/25/2019 12:38:43 PM PDT by US Navy Vet

36 Years ago TODAY!


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: chat; grenada; history; opurgentfury; rondellums; urgentfury; vanity; veselnitskaya
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To: US Navy Vet

The Grenada invasion was the turning point of the Cold War. For the first time since 1945 the West took one of the Bloc’s pieces off the board. In less than a decade, the Soviet Union was no more.


21 posted on 10/25/2019 3:16:54 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: piasa

From Ann Coulter:

“...After Watergate, the off-the-charts left-wing Congress gleefully set about dismantling this nation’s intelligence operations on the theory that Watergate never would have happened if only there had been no CIA.

Ron Dellums, a typical Democrat of the time, who — amazingly — was a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, famously declared in 1975: “We should totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, brick by brick, nail by nail.”

And so they did.

So now, our “spies” are prohibited from spying. The only job of a CIA officer these days is to read foreign newspapers and leak classified information to The New York Times. It’s like a secret society of newspaper readers. The reason no one at the CIA saw 9/11 coming was that there wasn’t anything about it in the Islamabad Post....”


22 posted on 10/25/2019 3:18:58 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

At the time Fusion GPS was lobbying against the Magnitsky Act on behalf of Russia.


23 posted on 10/25/2019 3:20:40 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

And as it happens, old Congressman Dellums died last year, so he can never be called as a witness.


24 posted on 10/25/2019 3:21:57 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: US Navy Vet
This is the tune I was listening to on October 25, 1983, when we liberated Grenada.

Sunday--Jean Goldkette

25 posted on 10/25/2019 3:26:00 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I always wondered whether our speedy success in GWI was in part the result of lessons learned from Grenada.

And I remember clearly how outraged I was that we sent our wounded to Germany rather than Israel. I loved Reagan, but just damn that Baker was an Arabist creep.


26 posted on 10/25/2019 3:39:33 PM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: Rebelbase

Some SEALs using bad nav equipment, made worse by using to close to submarine were lost and not found.


27 posted on 10/26/2019 10:00:19 PM PDT by rbmillerjr
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