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FREEPER CANTEEN: THE HOSTAGE RESCUE ATTEMPT IN IRAN, APRIL 24/25, 1980
The Hostage Rescue Attempt ^ | 04/23/2008 | RaceBannon

Posted on 04/23/2008 5:54:26 PM PDT by RaceBannon

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To: MeekMom
Good afternoon, MM...((HUGS))...another pretty day, but I now know that the haze is smoke from fires in Russia and sand from sandstorms in the Gobi Desert. *cough*



361 posted on 04/24/2008 4:10:24 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: Poetgal26

Good afternoon, Poetgal, Mom of Quentin....glad you are finally doing better.


362 posted on 04/24/2008 4:14:50 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Good afternoon/evening, Arrowhead...glad there is some breakfast left over. The week is almost over, finally.


363 posted on 04/24/2008 4:23:45 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: joe fonebone
Welcome to the Canteen, joe fonebone, and thank you for your service to our country.


364 posted on 04/24/2008 4:26:40 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: Sonora

Definitely positive. He’s going to school at ITT Tech and teaching a grade-school Sunday School class - this is the kind of thing that makes him all warm and fuzzy.


365 posted on 04/24/2008 4:31:07 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ Support our Troops ~ www.americasupportsyou.mil ~)
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To: SandRat

Sounds like you will have a busy one tomorrow.

My day has gone well....I haven’t gotten much done that I need to get done, but a bunch of little questions have been researched and answered. Tomorrow should be more quiet, and I hope to get my matching done. (I can always take it home and finish.)


366 posted on 04/24/2008 4:47:42 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: warsaw44

Thank you for the information warsaw44 . . . FR is blessed with the quality of our posters.


367 posted on 04/24/2008 5:30:15 PM PDT by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
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To: Kathy in Alaska

re: 361
You guys get smoke from Russia & sand from the Gobi Desert?
But that’s so very far away! How is that possible?
Man!


368 posted on 04/24/2008 5:51:31 PM PDT by MeekMom (Love God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your being.)
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Hi all


369 posted on 04/24/2008 6:02:00 PM PDT by Poetgal26 (God bless the US Military and our vets! (RIP Sgt Matthew Maupin))
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To: MS.BEHAVIN; TASMANIANRED; MeekMom; All
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370 posted on 04/24/2008 6:06:17 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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To: RaceBannon

great post


371 posted on 04/25/2008 4:22:04 AM PDT by RDTF (my worst nightmare is being on jury duty sequestered with 11 liberals)
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To: HiJinx

Cool! It is geared to the IT crowd.


372 posted on 04/25/2008 7:38:50 AM PDT by Sonora
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To: ConorMacNessa

Congratulations.. I’m so very happy for you.


373 posted on 04/25/2008 1:11:23 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: RaceBannon; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; Jeff Head; joanie-f; metmom; marron
No intelligence was coming out of Iran because Carter had dismantled the CIA's network of spies due to the agency's role in overthrowing governments in Vietnam and Latin America.

Carter's first fatal mistake. His second was not to recognize that the 1979 assault on the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was an act of war under international law; for it was a violent invasion conducted by organized Iranian nationals of U.S. sovereign territory, whose "government" pretended to look the other way.... [i.e., did not lift a finger to restore our people to us. Can we call this: orchestrated collusion between the "official" government and the government's hand-picked and trained "insurgents," under cover of plausible deniability??? The doctrine of asymmetrical warfare was born right there, or at the very least had its first debut in specifically Islamofascist form....].

Carter the pompous, faux-pious jerk that he is, thought that his duty was to mount a "rescue mission," when what the circumstances called for, what was truly needed, was an offical declaration of war. Then just go execute same, and get it over with. Had Carter done this, we wouldn't be worrying about Iranian nukes today.

Iran (de facto if not de jure) declared war on us, back in 1979. They are laughing at us today because we acted then, and continue to act, as if we didn't realize that. They think we are weak, not as bright as they are, and cowardly, supine in the face of threats. This understanding of theirs continues to encourage, to embolden them to this day.

I think they're wrong about that. But they -- the deranged mullahs who run that place -- don't know it. YET.

I'll never forget that morning when my clock radio alarm went off at the appointed hour, and the first conscious experience I had that day was to hear the horrific news of the fate of Desert One. My heart nearly broke right there.

RaceBannon, from my heart thank you for posting this. And May God ever bless you for your faithful service to our country.

374 posted on 04/25/2008 5:19:07 PM PDT by betty boop (This country was founded on religious principles. Without God, there is no America. -- Ben Stein)
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To: betty boop
[ Carter the pompous, faux-pious jerk that he is, thought that his duty was to mount a "rescue mission," ]

On the otherhand Sun Tsu (Art of War) said appear weak when you are strong and appear strong when you are weak..

In that sense Carter makes us appear weak..
When our military is the strongest its ever been..
Not in numbers but in ability..
Carter is giving the "foreign" enemy erroneous data..

375 posted on 04/25/2008 5:47:55 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: RaceBannon

Thanks for the link and sorry for the delay getting back to you. I just spent yet another hour reading over at your site. I will spend much more time there I can tell. I commend your hard work and thank you. I will send a link to your site to my son in Iraq as I am sure he will find it of great interest (for those moments he’s not ‘out and about in his tank’ in Sadr City)


376 posted on 04/26/2008 8:45:52 AM PDT by amom (Proud Blue Star Mom of a US Soldier protecting our freedom from the sandbox.)
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