Bush Accuses Reagan of running from terrorist in Lebanon.

[The Lone Liberal]

In case you did not catch this, here is the quote from the speech.


They want us to leave Iraq before our work is done. They want to shake the will of the civilized world. In the past, the terrorists have cited the examples of Beirutand Somalia, claiming that if you inflict harm on Americans, we will run from a challenge. In this, they are mistaken.


October 23, 1983 - A suicide car bomb attack against the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut kills 241 servicemen. A simultaneous attack on a French base kills 58 paratroopers. President Ronald Reagan ordered the Marines out of Lebanon, and on February 26, 1984 the Marines departed.

[sandnsea]

1. Obvious spin

Nobody's going to attack an old man with Alzheimer's. But they will attack Clinton plus he gets extra rah rah points from the #1 Americans who think being tough is the only solution to the world's problems.

[rfranklin]

5. But, but....Dumya's daddy and Colin Powelll sent those guys to Somalia...

and Clinton inherited that mess. Colin Powell was the one who denied them APCs.

[lcordero]

2. what was the purpose of being in Beirut in the first place?

[bahrbearian]

3. No oil in Lebanon !!!!

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. I hope you had a bucket handy to listen to the load of codswallop.

I could not. For a history major, * has no knowledge of history.

[villageidiot]

6. Reagan was a spineless coward

Isn't this what he is saying? Gee, and people forget how many people the French lost that day. Or that the French lost 70,000 in Vietnam before we went in. Those coward frogs!!