Posted on 02/19/2015 8:31:47 PM PST by beaversmom
WASHINGTON — It was late morning and the mob, loud and angry, had pushed its way in through a basement window and was trying to ram in the front door.
Staff Sgt. Mike Moeller and his cadre of 13 U.S. Marine guards were holding off the crowd from entering the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. They were under orders not to shoot. But Moeller, the lead guard, believed the Americans inside would be in imminent danger if the doors were breached.
He spied a ringleader and thought about taking him out.
“Usually it’s not the front guy that’s the leader, it’s the third or fourth one back that’s the rabble-rouser, the one that pushes everyone ahead, gets them worked up. This one individual was standing there doing exactly that,” Moeller said.
“And I said to myself, all I have to do is shoot him in the head, and blood and brains will scatter throughout the crowd. Nobody likes to see their own blood, so it was my interpretation they would probably retreat at that point.”
There was risk, though, of further inciting the mob, elevating a confrontation the United States did not want — and maybe getting all the Americans killed, he thought.
Finally, new orders arrived. The Marines were to fall back and join the rest of the staff in a vault on the second floor in hopes local authorities would arrive and disperse the crowd. Moeller was stunned.
“I simply felt my very spirit, my soul, drop from my body,” he said. “I had just made history as being the only Marine that ever surrendered an embassy. That was harder for me to live with than the solitude” of captivity.
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And sorry to say, Jimmah Cahtah, the man who caused this all, is still with us!
Rudy mentions good ole Jimmuh and the Iranian hostage situation in the first video starting at the 5:14 mark.
http://viral.buzz/video-raging-rudy-giuliani-what-is-wrong-with-our-president/
Direct link to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0hUtumtQpA
Politicians should never control the sheep dogs guarding the flock. They are clueless and always wimp out. Military’s are to guard hard won victory and keep the wolves at bay with the only thing the forces of evil understand. Massive brute killing force. A force that roaringly demonstrates, we will rain hell fire upon you if you try it.
Negotiating with Iran is like playing poker with the guys whose twice cheated you before.
You know who plays with that fellow again? A moron!
Priceless
And we today are still reaping the whirlwind sown by Jimmy Carter.
It will take generations to repair the damage heaped upon it by Obama.
In the Old West there would have been no one to play poker with a cheater again as he would have been shot and killed.
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Yep...
Evidence Jimmy Carter abandoned the Shah:
http://www.rescueattempt.com/id24.html
“They were under orders not to shoot.”..........
Seems that is the same order we must follow today. I highly recommend that they avoid my door, I am ready.
444 days of Carter ineptitude.
I am apprehensive of ISIL/ISIS/IS ‘capturing’ that base they have surrounded in Iraq that has between 300 and 400 US military. Imagine the propaganda ISIL/ISIS/IS could make from them, especially considering the likely response or lack thereof from the current Administration in DC.
We still have reverberations from the Carter Middle East foreign policy, and he only had one presidential term to create that mess. Obama will have had 2 terms, so repercussions from Obama Middle East foreign policy is exponentially worse.
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