1983 Beirut barracks bombing - 30 Years Ago Today

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9. They always skip this narrative of Ronnie the War hero.

The position of the Embassy was also forced on the Marines. They did not want this location for numerous defense reasons. It was located in the low ground that was shelled daily. It was located too closely to a populated area. Negating a defensive set back. Their position was located direcly in between warring factions. The rules of engagement were too restrictive. All this was dictated to them by Wahington. It was also the same people and dictates in Washington that cost thousands of lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Cheney/Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld just to name a few.

Our withdrawal without response was also directly quoted by Osama bin Laden that we were "Paper Tigers" and emboldened terrorist enemies throught the world.

One of the worst out comes was that a flying typewriter was 6 inches to the right. That is how close it came to Rumseld head in January of 1984 after a shell hit the building next door to him and blew the wall out.