Via LC Crunchie Remember what happened 30 years ago today?
An unhappy anniversary
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Iranian invasion of the United States and the true beginning of our now decades long war with the Islamic regime. This humiliating incident where they seized our embassy and help hostage our citizens for 444 days was part of the downfall of the feckless Jimmy Carter and a large force in my joining the military. It was painful to watch Walter Cronkite count out the number of days we had been publicly shamed on the news each night.
Iran does. Opposition Hijacks Day Set Aside for Anti-U.S. Celebration and Turns It Into Rally Against Regime
Thousands of protesters in Iran took a day of annual anti-American rallies commemorating the siege of the U.S. Embassy and turned it into a major protest against their government.
So where’s the US remembrance of that invasion of sovereign US territory? An act of war BTW.
Have we forgotten the 444 days the embassy staff spent unlawfully imprisoned?
Let us take a moment to reflect on the crimes of Ahmadinnerjacket and Ayatollah Themeany and the dereliction of duty by Jimmeh Cahter and the Congress of the United States.
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We’ve been at war with Iran since 1979? I didn’t know. Apparently Ronald Reagan wasn’t told either considering he sold them 1,000 TOW missiles in 1986, along with additional shipments of miscellaneous weapons and parts. I guess that would make him a… traitor?
There are so many historical reminders of the consequece of inaction. This is one of those. Imagine the middle east today had we forcefully removed the hostages by first destroying the thugs who held them. Had we sent in our quick reaction strike teams to kill the thugs that took power in iran, starting with the religious nutjob at the top, we very likely would not have suffered the horrors that would follow, including 9/11.
The correct understanding is that Iran has been at war with us for 30 years, but we have never been at war with Iran.
If we had been (and I supported Bush’s invasion of Iraq entirely because I believed, erroneously, that it was a prelude to making war on the Mullahs), then Iran would no longer be a problem for us.
And Iron Shake either doesn’t recall or never knew whom Reagan was using Iran as part of a set of tools to wage war upon: the Soviet Union, a far bigger threat than Iran ever was, or is ever likely to be.
Reagan won that war, too.
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Hey Iron Shit, makes the story slightly different then your distorted BS. Reagan believed the weapons were going to moderates, opposed to terrorism, opposed to the soviets, which is probably why it pissed you off.
oops, left the tag open. The last para is mine of course.
Yes, I didn’t recall and never knew that Nicaragua was the Soviet Union. Thanks for the heads up.
‘Reagan believed the weapons were going to moderates’. Well, Fuck. That gets him off then. He didn’t mean for them to wind up in the hands of a government we were at ‘war’ with…
‘There are so many historical reminders of the consequece of inaction.’
You know what has no consequences, Action. Look at Iraq and Afghanistan. We invaded, and everything been awesome since. Certainly the same would have been the case back in ‘79. Government failure can only be resolved by more Government action of the exact same kind that yeilded no results to date. Every leftist will tell you that.
The Sandinistas were sponsored by Moscow. Now Ortega and Chavez are sponsored by Cuba.
The problem in Afghanistan and Iraq is that we didn’t do the job right in the first place and we have not taken out the terrorist sponsors.
There was at least one result from invading Iraq: our pilots aren’t getting fired at biweekly by the Iraqis, as they did for eleven years after The Other Hussein violated the ceasefire agreement less than two weeks after the ink dried. And we now know for sure about all of Saddam’s WMD programs, of which he had many, half of whose existence we barely even suspected before we went in.
Now go ahead and bray the conventional, tiresome Leftard meme that there were NO WMDs or WMD programs, and Saddam was a peaceful, benevolent leader who meant no harm to anyone. Then blame Bush for the fact that our hapless fool of a Dear Leader hasn’t yet managed to unclench the Iranian fist.
Ooooh, look! Unicorns!
Like I said: tiresome.
I remember being furious with Carter (spit). My brother was a Ranger sergeant in those days stationed at Hunter Field and he was on stay within an hour of base restriction the whole time the hostages were being held. They were kept one step below lock and load for over a year, with planes ready to go, but never got sent. He always said it was because Rangers either come back with what they are sent for, or don’t come back, and that was too butch for Carter.
The whole fiasco in the desert with the combined forces rescue team is still quite interesting to me. I’ve never believed the official story, and the early footage I saw of the scene from non-US tv didn’t support it. It looked more like a fire fight to me and there were more bodies and burned equipment than they took along. In any case, those guys don’t accidentally run into each other in the dark.
I always had a feeling that the team was set up. One of the helicopters was sabotaged on the ship over, which makes me think inside job. Maybe Carter wanted to make a gesture rather than a rescue and had CIA spooks in the team to force the mission to abort. He sure looked surprised that anyone got hurt in his press conference afterwards — and even an idiot like him should have been able to comprehend that someone could get hurt on a mission like that. Or maybe the just ran into something unexpected out there.
My brother never would tell me everything he knew about this since he said my security clearance wasn’t high enough — even years later when I was interviewing for a civilian job at DIA (gotta love brothers :> ). One of his friends was the guy who fired the TOW at the fuel tanker, so he had some on site information. He did say that one evening one of the tv talking heads accidentally said something that was pretty close to the truth, but it was very brief and never came up again.
Thank God Reagan became president.
Your heads up is up your own ass, if you are so stupid as to not understand that the global “cold” and not so cold war being waged at the time included the subversion of Nicaraugua by the Soviet Union via Cuban surrogates.
However, you make it perfectly clear you are that stupid, so FOAD, milkshake.