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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.”
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I'm sharing Sheehy's transcript and video link because I think it should be required viewing in schools and public venues.I think the MSM has cushioned the reality in Iran - I'd never heard that Iran skinned people alive or drilled into the skulls of their victims with power drills.
I wanted Iran's regime defeated because they kill people for a living, their own our ours, including their targeting of our bravest and best in the military.
But Sheehy's bold statements about an adversary that skins people alive for pleasure, and those who commit these atrocities are considered heroes, shows the kind of people the Democrats are trying to protect and defend.
IMHO things that Iran has done in recent years against the U.S. are more reason to go to war than things done decades ago.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=timeline+since+2020+of+houthi+attacks+on+american+ships
Golly, can you imagine the Iranians being sore at us for overthrowing their elected government back in the 50s just so we could join the Brits in plundering their natural resources?
What a bunch of jerks!
Why are you still here?
Funny, that's my question to you, Foreigner Firster.
Why don't you go live in that foreign country you love over mine!
Go on - git! And let us forget that traitors like you were ever in our midst.
Thank you. I’m going to listen to this tonight.
I was wondering the same thing about that poster, central_va.
Did we really overthrow Iran's government? I'm not so sure. I've read in multiple places that Operation Ajax was a failure and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had to flee. So the CIA ordered that operation ajax cease, but rogue agent Kermit Roosevelt continued. And exactly how much did Roosevelt's actions impact things anyway with the clerics already stirring things up against Mossadegh?
Last but not least, keep in mind that when the CIA "admitted" to it in 2013, it was during Obama's reign. It's possible that this "admission" was part of Obama's 8 years of apologizing for America's existence.
So I'm not as sure as I used to be that we overthrew Iran's government.
An explosively formed penetrator (EFP) – also known as an explosively formed projectile.
Very effective at penetrating armor at a distance.
The irony here is thick! Islam hates everyone who is not Islamic. It hates Moslems that are not acting in a proper Islamic way. Killing fellow Moslems is explicitly forbidden but they actually kill more of each other than infidels!
They don't need excuses to kill us . Simply because we are not Islamic is excuse enough for them. They deserve no sympathy or understanding as to why they attack. It is an evil religion and has been from day one.
Making excuses for why they attack is a craven foolish tendency of people who actually hate America.
Sheehy is on target, as usual.
Suggested reading:
Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran (1979) by Kermit Roosevelt Jr.
Regime Change in Iran: Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran, November 1952 – August 1953 by Donald N. Wilber.
CIA contract employee, Iran specialist, and one of the principal planners. He helped draft the operational plan in Cyprus with British counterparts and later wrote this detailed after-action report for the agency while events were still fresh. The declassified document has been published in book form and is a dry, operational chronology rather than a personal memoir.
Something Ventured by Christopher Montague “Monty” Woodhouse.
Woodhouse was the key British MI6 officer in Tehran who helped initiate and shape the British side of the plot (Operation Boot)
-Manuel II Palaiologos, the Byzantine Emperor, in the late 14th century.
Notice that the Byzantine Empire is no longer around? It was a second capital for Christians until Islamic hordes destroyed it. And now Europe invites in the same plague and gives free stuff to the invaders!
We were worried about the Soviet Union gaming a foothold.
And now the toehold that the soviets started and nurtured, and foolish liberals ignored is deep into America. THE HOUR IS LATE
He’s a real propagandist for the DSA.
Your suggested reading was written by the rogue agent Kermit Roosevelt that I mentioned. Often the rogue agents aren’t the heroes that they’re portrayed as in the movies. His account may be true ... and then again it may not be. Count me as skeptical of anything the CIA publishes.
Same mistake in Afghanistan. Yet 'Islamophobia' is the problem we must fear! We need a new crusade but the Pope is now on their side!
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