Posted on 09/01/2026 12:17:42 PM PDT by ransomnote
TRANSCRIPT Below: Senator Tim Sheehy, a Republican from Montana and former Navy SEAL, delivered a powerful July 2026 Senate floor speech recounting Iran's 47-year conflict with the US.
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Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota - Acting President pro tempore: The Senator from MontanaSenator Tim Sheehy:“Thank you, Mr. President.
“Yesterday, we saw the President of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone.
“That process happens beginning in the war zone, through Dover, to the hometown of our fallen heroes. I participated in many of those ceremonies myself to include carrying friends of mine off the plane.
“One of those is on this bracelet. He was cut in half by an Iranian EFP.
“This regime that we are fighting does not care about our partisan politics. They don’t care who you voted for, who you pray to, or where you live. They want to kill all of us. And they don’t just say it, they actually do it. And they’ve been doing it for 47 years.
“This is a war of choice. The Democrats are correct. It’s a war of choice that was begun by a radical, lunatic band of terrorists that took over a beautiful nation 47 years ago, took it over with brutality, force, and savagery.
“And the second they took it over, they didn’t free their people. They didn’t unleash the largest oil reserves in the world to build schools and bridges. They took it over to murder their own people and to spread their disgusting ideology across the world. And that is exactly what they have been doing.
“They don’t just say it and talk about it. You don’t have to believe what they say. You can simply watch what they’ve done. They have attacked families, women, children, innocent people.
“They don’t just attack them and kill them. They rape them. They skin them alive on camera. They celebrate it. They honor those people who do disgusting things that we would put in jail for the rest of their lives in this country.
“And they do it for fun, and they pay them money to do it, and they’re heroes to that nation. They’ve done it to friends of mine. They’ve done it to families who’ve been in this chamber. And the fact that we sit here and listen to elected officials of this country defend these lunatics who want us all dead – they want all of you dead. They want all of us dead. They don’t want us to disappear with the snap of a finger. They want us to be raped, burned alive, and cut into pieces.
“Watch the video from October 7th. That’s what they want to happen from Maine to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami. They want this country turned into a burning husk of its former self. And you don’t have to theorize that. That’s what they do.
“From the 1983 barracks bombing, where 280 Marines were vaporized in the morning. From USS Cole to the Achille Lauro to every terrorist attack from the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas. These are not humanitarian freedom organizations. They are death-dealing cults, and they want all of us to die brutal deaths.
“William Buckley was abducted in 1985, an American military officer. He was skinned alive on camera by the Iranians.
“American prisoners of war who were captured, they were never called prisoners of war because they were captured by lunatic terrorists, so they were not subject to the Geneva Convention. They were captured and murdered. Power drills through their brains. This is in Iraq. These are families that have dealt with this, and they’ve never gotten a single dime. These families have never gotten restitution, and not a single president has ever stood up to them.
“Love Donald Trump or hate him, love his policies, hate ICE, love ICE, whatever, there’s never been a single president who has stood up to Iran and hit back.
“For 47 years, our troops and our families have been absorbing attack after attack after attack all over the world. And their radical ideology does not stop at the Persian Gulf. It doesn’t stop at Tel Aviv. They want to do this everywhere. It’s a global, radical ideology. And we’ve been fighting it for half a century.
“We didn’t start this war. We did not, but we will finish it. And forever wars are not popular with anybody these days. Both sides of that love to attack our forever wars. And I can promise you, being someone overseas wearing the uniform, when you’re fighting for your country, you don’t care what party’s in office. But you’re fighting to defend your country, and you turn on the news and see your elected officials stabbing you in the back, telling you that you’re failing, that you’ve failed every goal of the war, is what I just heard.
“Last time I checked, we’ve wiped these bastards out. An occasional missile strike and boats in the strait, that’s not military strength. Those are the flailings of a failing empire. Those are the flailings of a nation in collapse because they deserve it.
“So I encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whatever’s politically convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook, think about the people who are deployed right now, standing on that wall with a loaded weapon, who have volunteered to defend our country and our way of life. Because they are there defending us in a just war.
“Because we did not start a war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They started it with us 47 years ago, and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century.
“It’s time to fix this problem and make sure another generation of Americans does not have to fight this murderous, savage adversary.
“Thank you, Mr. President.”
It was three separate books by people involved. The second is literally a ‘declassified document has been published in book form and is a dry, operational chronology rather than a personal memoir’.
Powerful. Thank you for posting this.
Normally, I prefer to read a transcript, but I am glad I watched and listened to the video.
Your suck rating is 13 out of 5
At one time, the overrun of an American embassy used to be an act of war.
I remember well, in quiet hours in SouthEast Asia, reports from BBC about Congress critters mouthing off of how we were losing the war.
“...can you imagine the Iranians being sore at us for overthrowing their elected government back in the 50s...”
Yes, I can.
BUT
We got to play the cards as they lay on the table and it is a bad hand left from kicking the can down the road.
The Twelver/Doomsday Cult Shia medieval mullahs can not be allowed to get nukes with their current ballistic missile tech.
They do not want nukes to protect themselves as does every other nuclear power today.....they want nukes to start WWIII heralding in their long awaited prophet the Mahdi, and the final conquest of the world by their flavor of Islam.
There are 90,000,000 Iranians.....and they are not Arabs, they know how to fight.
It will take a full scale war like Desert Storm (unlikely) OR some tactical nukes.
NOBODY will lift a finger to save them if we use tactical....as long as China is guaranteed its oil...it will not care...Russia? Pakis?Indians? Norks? Brits? Frogs?
Everybody will demonstrate false outrage and burn up the TV interviews and the UN Podium paid for by the US condemning us......but they are doing that now.
In effect Trump faces the same question Truman did.....a powerful large hard to get at country run by zealots that needs shocked into surrender.
W have never forsworn “first use”, and doing so will put everybody on notice (RedChinks, Norks), America is back with some testicles and not to phock with us.
Change my mind.
It still is. In the case of Iran, the “war” ended with the signing of the Algiers Accords in 1980.
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