Just what has Cuba done during the last several decades that can be construed as "sponsoring terrorism" anyway?

And also a long time ago I think some Cubans hijacked planes.

Aircraft hijacking incidents between the United States and Cuba were at their height between 1968 and 1972. These incidents have variously been attributed to terrorism, extortion, flight for political asylum, mental illness and transportation between the two countries as a result of the ongoing antagonistic Cuba-United States relations.[1] Subsequent measures by both governments contributed to a gradual reduction of reported incidents towards the mid-1970s. Governmental measures included an amendment to Cuban law which made hijacking a crime in 1970, the introduction of metal detectors in U.S. airports in 1973, and a joint agreement between the U.S. and Cuba signed in Sweden to return or prosecute hijackers.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cuba%E2%80%93United_States_aircraft_hijackings

It was added in 1982, long after Cuba nationalized the properties of US nationals and after most of these hijackings had stopped. They were added because the Reagan administration opposed their aiding of the Sandinistas and Salvadoran rebels in Central America. Reagan had Al Haig threaten the Cubans that if they didn't cease their support for the rebels, they'd be added to the list. Rest is history.

St. Ronnie ginned up that farce to invade Grenada. Castro tried right before the invasion to assure him that the students were fine and would be protected, but Ronnie just couldn't back down from invading a tiny, defenseless island.

plan to drop SS-20 missiles on the island. (Reagan totally lucked out on that one because they didn't think they were coming for a few more months). Castro also didn't have much control. He wasn't even aware of Coard's plan to overthrow Bishop.

The original plans were to rescue the students only. There was no invasion planned. The invasion portion had to be planned very quickly (they didn't even have accurate maps of the island) You can find all the documents in the national archives.

http://www.jmss.org/jmss/index.php/jmss/article/viewFile/28/26

Kornbluh is head of the National Security Archive's Cuba Documentation Project. It details just what exactly went down in Grenada, as well as how Cuba was put on the terror list for political reasons, and how Cuba tried through various channels to assure the US that the students were safe, something which they themselves later attested to. Absurd and reprehensible to say they were "kidnapped". All the weapons found in Grenada were of a defensive nature, and the US knew this. Despite that, Reagan tried to pass off the capture of AK-47s and RPGs as some kind of immediate threat to the US. Straight off the neo-con playbook.

documents. I know better. Heck, I've read performance evaluations from Russia when Coard was trained.

There was a lot more going on than what appeared at the time. One of the reasons I kept digging into it was because it was very interesting, almost soap opera-ish.

I think Russia not getting the SS-20's onto the island played a bigger role in ending the Cold War than most people give it credit for. One of the reasons much of this wasn't reported at the time was because Reagan's advisors told him to keep his mouth shut and instead use diplomacy with Moscow.

so i'll take his word over yours and Ronald Reagan's.

If only congress had the same courage and dignity.

Gonna be messy, LOL.

He impresses me - NOT! He's SO not ready for Prime Time. He's got nothing but aging Cuban exiles, and there's not enough of them to put him over the top. I love how he's claiming people like HRC are SO over because they're SO yesterday. Well, maybe he's got youth on them, but he's got NOTHING else. Hillary is talking about 21st Century issues. Little boy marco and his ideas are stuck back in another century. HE'S the one who's yesterday. His thinking is yesterday. His approach to the issues is yesterday. He's yesterday's child. All those Bronze Age thinkers are yesterday's children. That's certainly where they want to drag women back to: YESTERDAY. Yesterday in the 6th Century. And minorities as well.