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RR2

(87 posts)
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 11:54 AM Nov 2015

Does everyone believe the War on Terror began with 911?

Think again, many Beirut veterans will tell you it started on 23 Oct. 1983. It happened on Ronald Reagans watch, he did nothing! He pulled out of Beirut within four months of the attack. Here is an informative clip watch it then tell me you disagree.

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L. Coyote

(51,134 posts)
2. With detante, they needed a new word for the enmey, commie had to be replaced.
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 12:20 PM
Nov 2015

About the time Reagan proclaimed the Sandinista terrorists were marching on Texas from Nicaragua.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
3. If that Marine barracks attack had occurred under a Democratic Admin
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 12:21 PM
Nov 2015

We would never hear the end of it. How come Raygun does not get any heat for that happening under his watch? It's amazing.

Javaman

(65,443 posts)
4. it began with the Dulles brothers...
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 12:24 PM
Nov 2015

and their wonton fucking around with other nations and assassinating foreign leaders.

RR2

(87 posts)
5. Oh yes, almost forgot about those brothers, what is it about male siblings?
Tue Nov 17, 2015, 03:07 PM
Nov 2015

Bush Brothers, Koch Brothers, Dulles Brothers...
Day-0 Day-o, Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
8. well he ignored all warnings, picked sides in the war,
Wed Nov 18, 2015, 01:24 AM
Nov 2015
and had 80 people slaughtered in the wrong apartment
(and gave millions to OBL's money man, encouraged increasingly-conservative Sunnism, etc etc)
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