Why don't republicans ever talking about Reagan getting 241 marines killed

[I_Got_Da_Burna]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/...g-241-at-Beirut-in-1983-Didn-t-Happen-No-More

October 23rd, 1983. Ronald Reagan was President of the United States.

What stood out then, particularly on television, was the toll of 241 dead at Marine BLT Barracks at Beirut Airport. Yet on the 30th Anniversary last week, in 2013, nothing appeared on television to commemorate those losses. Not a word on network news or the commentary shows.

These were revenge killings; for Muslims, the term "retaliation" is more appropriate. In all, four truck bombs killed 398 people to take revenge for months of Ronald Reagan using the offshore guns of the U.S. Navy to shell Lebanese villages. Those bombardments killed more than a thousand people, slaughtering Druze and Muslims indiscriminately. The technology for the bombs was provided by Iran. There, for the Iran-Iraq War, Reagan had reversed Jimmy Carter's Executive Order and taken to supplying material support for Saddam Hussein. This despite Saddam's use of nerve gas to kill tens of thousands of Iranians, including civilians.

"Teach them a lesson" from Reagan in the Oval Office had produced unanticipated consequences.

Corporate media avoid all mention of the Beirut, Lebanon "peacekeeping" invasion -- despite that the CBS program 60 Minutes is taking time tonight to replay the Benghazi attack and street riot that killed 4 on September 11, 2012.

No comparisons allowed.

Erasing the events of Lebanon 1983 also supports the long-term propaganda goal of portraying Ronald Reagan as a competent Commander in Chief. That is an important goal for conservative politics. Having Reagan seen as being good at everything is essential to claiming that he was a great president.

Early on, NBC had Reagan's Secretary of State, George Shultz, on Meet the Press. He claimed, fantastically, that Ronald Reagan was undefeated in his foreign military adventures. Shultz also stated a whopper of a lie: that the invasion of Grenada on October 25th of 1983 was "the first use of the American military overseas since Vietnam."

For those of us with connections to the Marine Corps that lie astonished. The Grenada distraction started 2 days after the Marine BLT Barracks was shattered. Shultz initiated what has become a concerted Republican effort to rewrite popular history: the disasters of Lebanon 1983 are erased.

Corporate media goes all in for Pearl Harbor Day when December 7th rolls around. That happened when a Democrat was in the White House.

Plainly, Republicans and their corporate allies would forget the military dead where it is politically convenient to forget them. Lying does not matter. They mislead their "Base" with gross lies, paranoid whining, and empty promises. They care for nothing but their own advancement.

Lie about the dead, ye superpatriots. IOKIYAR.

When Lebanon 1983 is mentioned, for such as resume material, the bombings are blamed on Hezbollah. That is one more lie. Another distraction. In 1983 the Arab militias in Lebanon were fragmented. There was no Hezbollah, not yet. Plus, the Iranians were the ones who supplied the detonation technology and management resource; we know who carried out the bombings and where they are mourned.

 

[DEAD7]

Partisanship.

 

[Type Username Here]

Reagan gets off easy on this. Political nonsense got those Marines killed because warnings were not heeded. Really makes Benghazi seem like a playground incident between children.

Reagan gets off easy on a lot of shyt because Democrats are cowards. Most of us saw it first hand how cowardly they are when Bush was in office, how they treated Bush officials after taking power, when they had control of both houses of congress, their attitude towards Occupy Movement and the list goes on.

It astonishes me how much Reagan dikkriding I hear from Democratic politicians. They LOVE Reaganomics and the Gipper. You can almost hear the fear in their voice when they mildly criticize him or point out something he did. It's really disgusting.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Because they ain't shyt and are hoping to outlive and outwrite everyone.

 

[88m3]

it's not politically expedient...


a lot of strange shyt was happening behind the scenes with that one too.... there are probably a lot of eggs to go around.


R.I.P. to them

 

[Shogun]

For the same reason democrats don't talk about Clinton's Al-Shifa bombing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factory

 

[kingofnyc]

fukk Reagan

 

[RatherUnique]

Reagon was responsible for mass incarceration of Americans, especially AA's. Dude was horrific as a president.

 

[Type Username Here]

Reagon was responsible for mass incarceration of Americans, especially AA's. Dude was horrific as a president.

The worst.

 

[CHL]

Reagan gets off easy on this. Political nonsense got those Marines killed because warnings were not heeded. Really makes Benghazi seem like a playground incident between children.

Reagan gets off easy on a lot of shyt because Democrats are cowards. Most of us saw it first hand how cowardly they are when Bush was in office, how they treated Bush officials after taking power, when they had control of both houses of congress, their attitude towards Occupy Movement and the list goes on.

It astonishes me how much Reagan dikkriding I hear from Democratic politicians. They LOVE Reaganomics and the Gipper. You can almost hear the fear in their voice when they mildly criticize him or point out something he did. It's really disgusting.

And it's hilarious how anyone could consider the Democrats on the left of any political spectrum. They are far from it.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Reagan gets off easy on this. Political nonsense got those Marines killed because warnings were not heeded. Really makes Benghazi seem like a playground incident between children.

Reagan gets off easy on a lot of shyt because Democrats are cowards. Most of us saw it first hand how cowardly they are when Bush was in office, how they treated Bush officials after taking power, when they had control of both houses of congress, their attitude towards Occupy Movement and the list goes on.

It astonishes me how much Reagan dikkriding I hear from Democratic politicians. They LOVE Reaganomics and the Gipper. You can almost hear the fear in their voice when they mildly criticize him or point out something he did. It's really disgusting.

Reagan got hella americans killed in the middle east:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_incident

But then again, this is during the Cold War so i'm sure it got overshadowed

 

[mbewane]

Because he fought for freedom

 

[Jutt]

One of many passes he gets

 

[Jello Biafra]

Reagan is to Repubs what Kennedy is to Dems. They have exalted him to a lofty station and remember his two terms with rose-colored glasses.
To a diehard Republican he could do no wrong and didn't do anything detrimental to the nation.
That is why so many of them can mention adding him to Mt. Rushmore with a straight face.

 

[Kritic]

Reagon was responsible for mass incarceration of Americans, especially AA's. Dude was horrific as a president.

this is the reason why reagan is regarded one of the best presidents. cause he set blacks many centuries back.
when they eventually take look at barack's record they will change their mind and love him too.