GRENADA-EAGLETON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201710001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 26, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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26 October 1983
WASHINGTON STAT
GRENADA-EAGLETON
The American people are becoming concerned about a ''trigger-happy foreign
policy' inlNicaragua, El Salvador, Lebanon and the Caribbean island of Grenada,
Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., said Wednesday.
'Our invasion of Grenada has to be considered against the backdrop of
multiplying American military involvement around the globe,'' Eagleton said in a
statement about recent events.
"We have the American? CIA -sponsored war in Nicaragua and it is not being
won. We have the American-financed and American-advised war in El Salvador and
it is not being won. We have 1,600 American Marines involved in the war in
Lebanon and it is not being won.
''No doubt we-can win a war in pitiful Grenada and thus a talk-tough Reagan
administration could do tough in a tiny island nation of 110,000 people.
''The notion that American nationals were endangered is flimsy, illusory, and
hypothetical. The test of the premise will be our instant departure from Grenada
once the Americans.are gathered up. We all know there will be no such instant
departure; hence, the rescue premise won't stand up.
"Finally, there is the question of the War Powers Act. Self.--evidently it
applies. Yet, as before in Lebanon, the administration refuses to invoke the key
provisions which put a 60 to 90 day time limit on our forces in Grenada. Once
again, Congress and the president are in a face-off over the War Powers Act.''
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