Posted on 04/18/2008 5:23:39 PM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, April 18, 2008 Twenty-five years after terrorists detonated a massive car bomb, killing 52 people at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, President Bush urged unity in condemning terrorism he said continues to threaten the United States.
Employees of the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development and members of the Central Intelligence Agencys Middle East contingent were also killed. President Ronald Reagan quickly denounced the vicious terrorist bombing as a cowardly act that would not deter U.S. goals of peace in the region. Bush marked the anniversary of the Beirut embassy bombing in a statement released yesterday remembering those killed and honoring the sacrifice of their family and friends and those wounded in the attack. He called the anniversary a timely reminder of the danger U.S. diplomats, military personnel and locally employed staff bear in their service to the the United States. Since the Beirut attack, we and citizens of many countries have suffered more attacks at the hands of Hizballah and other terrorists, backed by the regimes in Tehran and Damascus, which use terror and violence against innocent civilians, Bush said. All nations should condemn such brutal attacks and recognize that the purposeful targeting of civilians is immoral and unjustifiable. The bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack the United States had ever faced in its history, although more attacks were to follow. The Beirut embassy bombing opened a new chapter in attacks against Americans overseas. Six months later, on Oct. 23, 1983, two truck bombs struck barracks in Beirut that houses U.S. and French members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon. The attacks, which occurred 20 seconds apart, killed 241 U.S. Marines, as well as 58 French servicemen and six civilians. Other embassy attacks were to follow: in 1998 on the embassies in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania; and Nairobi, Kenya; and in 2002 on the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. Bush noted that the people of Lebanon have remained resilient despite living the better part of three decades living under the threat of violence, assassinations and other forms of intimidation. They and their leaders continue to work for a peaceful and democratic future, even as Syria, Iran, and their Lebanese proxies seek to undermine Lebanese democracy and institutions, he said. The United States will continue to stand with the Lebanese people and their government as they struggle to preserve their sovereignty and independence, seek to bring justice to victims of terrorism and political violence, and seek election of a president committed to those values, Bush said. |
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What will it take....10 more 911’s...??????
Until the members or the House and Senate see their legislative chambers in ruin and have torn the deaths of the members of those chambers -— they don’t and won’t get the seriousness of the war.
After another catastrophe the politicians will immediately plan for the next election and plan on how to line their pockets with gold...they are all corrupt, one worst than the other...
This article and your homepage succinctly demonstrates when the real War on Terror started! Thanks for FRWN!!
Which is why I almost wish the Capitol Bldg was hit on 9-11 instead of the Pentagon. There would be no talk of cut-and-run if a couple hundred Congressmen and staffers had ended up as charcoal.
Take Israel for example...they have such pukes and corrupt leaders that they have weakened her...these leaders need to be severely punished, even Bibi is corrupt...the Israelis keep voting for garbage the same way Americans are voting for garbage...
When will Americans wake up? I thought it happened on 911 but it didn’t...3000 dead and the politicians are destroying themselves in order to line their own pocket
Correction: 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers.
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