If the USA invaded Greneda to rescue its students why didn't they ask for a safe passage before the invasion?

Keep this in mind, we invaded a country to rescue kids who couldn't get in to a school in the United States.

When the troops arrived, some of the students were very surprised.

You see, they weren't in any danger or trouble at all, and they were unaware they were being used by the Reagan administration as an excuse for an imperialist adventure, to invade soft-"socialist" Grenada.

Some even resisted being dragged out of their school by the U.S. military.

Grenada would have been better off with a real radical socialist government. The Reaganoids and their liberal co-conspirators were going to attack them anyway -- might as well get the benefits too.

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The US had lots of reasons to invade Grenada. The government had declared martial law, had replaced a moderate government using violence, and was made up of communist extremists. Intervention was requested by the Organization of American States. The students on the island were just one part of the problem. No "puppet government" was installed in Grenada; they had democratic elections and their constitution was reinstated.

Also, it's not true that "hundreds of civilians" were killed. A US review of the operation conducted in 1997 could only positively confirm 24 civilian casualties.

It provided the U.S. with an excellent excuse to eliminate a Marxist regime allied to Fidel Castro's Cuba.

It also provided a distraction from the Marines that Reagan had placed in Lebanon being blown to bits.

The students were not being held hostage.

There was no longer a legitimate government in place. There was no one to ask.

The US is responsible for the welfare of it's citizens even when they are out of the country.