This blast was 230 Americans dying.
In 1983, almost 230 American military were killed when a terrorist truck bomb exploded in Beirut.
Time magazine itself admitted Israel knew about the incident yet “our only friend in the Middle East” did not inform us, their “ally.”
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Reagan was then imploring my father to serve on the National Security Council but this débacle caused my father to feel disgust toward the Reagan government.
In 1985 Reagan sent my father a second invitation to serve in the WH (or as US Ambassador to Hungary).
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James Waddell Nugent obituary; Constance Colwell Nugent, my mother; and her parents
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The Marines had been put in the middle of a civil war and the guards were not allowed to have their rifles loaded –yes, their M-16s were unloaded by order of the White House — as the terrorist truck approached the Marine barracks.
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Who benefited? Israel, because the 230 murdered Americans made the country hate “the Arabs” more. And seven years later, we waged war on arabic Iraq, Israel’s enemy.
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Oh, and Reagan did nothing about Israel not warning us. He did walk past a long row of coffins and look pained, however.
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@theduran Yawn, yet another superb video. 😉 When will you do something mediocre for a change? 😉 But seriously, I would point out that sowing discord in the Middle East is openly stated Israeli policy, and Lebanon is literally at war de jure with the Zionist entity. And the same is true of Syria, de jure at war with Israel. And by amazing coincidence, both have been racked by civil war…..
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“Securing the Realm” was a 1996 policy paper that laid it all out. Get all the ethnic and religious groups killing each other. The Mideast was fairly peaceful until 1948, when the intruder appeared. .
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And as for the humongous bomb blast last year, the presence was well-known of that dangerous fertilizer shipment in the harbor — 2,755 tons of ammonium nitrate.
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How hard would it have been for commandos from a country at war with Lebanon to ignite it?
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Then Tel Aviv sits back with some popcorn and watches the Lebanese, already divided by religion, furiously point fingers at each other over the bomb.
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