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To: Rome2000
Right, he didn't continue expose our troops to attack for no good goddamned reason, and bombed Gaddafi's house instead. They got the message

Hezbollah ≠ Gaddafi.

The 1986 bombing of Libya was in response to saber rattling. We sent a carrier off their coast, shot down two of their fighters, they bombed a German disco that U.S. servicemen frequented, so we bombed Libya. They retaliated in several ways, most notably the Lockerbie bombing.

In the case of the retreat from Lebanon, we bombarded some goat covered hills with an Iowa class battleship and called it a day.

36 posted on 11/21/2010 6:50:20 PM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3

Are you trying to make the point that Reagan was weak for taking our troops out of harms way after Beirut?


37 posted on 11/21/2010 6:55:02 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Gunslingr3
...we bombarded some goat covered hills with an Iowa class battleship...

An R&R center?

50 posted on 11/23/2010 1:52:22 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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