[ozoneliar]

killing 241 servicemen.

Whose families have yet to see the money from the judgement. Guess what's holding it up?

[msnimje]

Caspar the not so friendly ghost.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

I'll go one better: The marines shouldn't have been there in the first place. At the time I wanted Israel to march to the Syrian border and obliterate the PLO. If we were there we should have been helping them instead of "peacekeeping". And after the blast we should have sent in 50,000 troops and finished Israel's job for them.

[DB]

He said one of his greatest regrets was in failing to overcome the arguments that "'Marines don't cut and run,' and 'We can't leave because we're there'" before the devastating suicide attack on the lightly armed force.

Everything that followed including 9-11 falls back in part to our nonresponse to the wholesale murder of our Marines that day.

[zarf]

Beirut is Reagan's shame. A total waste of life then we ran with our tails between our legs.

[John Lenin]

Ronald Wilson Reagan, A Tribute

[A.A. Cunningham]

That putz Bud MacFarlane shares a lot of the blame for the Beirut debacle.

[JohnBDay]

Beruit remains the greatest black mark on Reagan's presidency. As great as he was, I wonder if he would have the determination in Iraq that Bush has.

[AlexandriaDuke]

Well, I was going to post on this thread. But, I thought Cap was dead, so what do I know?

[EveningStar]

misc ping

[NormsRevenge]

President Reagan meets with Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger, left, and Secretary of State Alexander Haig Monday, August 17, 1981, before the start of a National Security Council meeting at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. Weinberger says in an oral history project capturing the views of former Reagan administration officials released the week of Jan. 30, 2006, he implored the president to put Marines serving in Beirut in a safer position before terrorists attacked them in 1983. (AP Photo)

[balch3]

If he's lying, he should be ashamed. If he's telling the truth, he should keep his mouth shut. Not only does it tarnish the Reagan legacy, but it plays right into the hands of leftists trying to hinder President Bush in the middle east.

[Berlin_Freeper]

AP- Recollections of an initial 25 Reagan aides were released this week by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.


Unless these "scholars" can come up with official documents, I am not buying any of this. Those people are experts at manipulating people, and old people like those interviewed are especially easy to manipulate.

Why do they create an "oral history" with no documentation to back it up? Because they have an agenda to create a stink, any stink, on Reagan.

And notice how AP focuses in on "another dark corner of Reagan's presidency,". How come they don't focus in on some shining leadership example and achievements??? This proves that the exact purpose of the so-called "oral history" with no documentation is nothing more than manipulating old memories from tired old people in order to crap on Reagan.

Anyone buying this stuff at face value is a fool and an idiot.

[RightWingAtheist]

I really detest AP's phrasing of the title. It implies that Reagan knew that the suicide bombing was going to happen, and deliberately allowed the soldiers to die. Now every moonbat blog is going paste this headline in bold, and try to make scurrilous comparisons to Bush ("THEY BOTH KNEW! THEY BOTH KNEW!).