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Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by freedomSlave
I just don't get this attitude from an shocking amount of americans , it is ok for them to terrorize them with bombs from above killing families . geeezzzzuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Hey Rip Van Winkle
Check the News headlines during those bombings!
You'll find British, French, Italians and Canada I'm not sure about the Dutch though
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by freedomSlave
I just don't get this attitude from an shocking amount of americans , it is ok for them to terrorize them with bombs from above killing families . geeezzzzuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Hey Rip Van Winkle
Check the News headlines during those bombings!
You'll find British, French, Italians and Canada I'm not sure about the Dutch though
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by freedomSlave
I just don't get this attitude from an shocking amount of americans , it is ok for them to terrorize them with bombs from above killing families . geeezzzzuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Hey Rip Van Winkle
Check the News headlines during those bombings!
You'll find British, French, Italians and Canada I'm not sure about the Dutch though
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
Originally posted by Gwampo
Dude... if this story is true, if marines are going over there, and they happen to get heavily attacked (God forbid), I wonder how the rest of the military, or the rest of our country for that matter, will feel about it.
Perhaps it's a setup. Send in a small team knowing they will get slaughtered and then you have justification to send in the big guns and start a war.
I wouldn't put it past the U.S. Government to do that.
Originally posted by freedomSlave
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by freedomSlave
I just don't get this attitude from an shocking amount of americans , it is ok for them to terrorize them with bombs from above killing families . geeezzzzuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Hey Rip Van Winkle
Check the News headlines during those bombings!
You'll find British, French, Italians and Canada I'm not sure about the Dutch though
Originally posted by camaro68ss
Its about time we take our land back and retrieve our dead. You know the only reason Obama is doing this was after it was poll tested to do the right thing
The president must demand military assistance from Libya in helping with securing the compound and with all future secured needs. If the government fails or denies the request, we must cut off Libya from the world and starve it to death.edit on 12-9-2012 by camaro68ss because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by capone1
Originally posted by RobertF
I understand it is a FAST marine group, a Fast Action Security Team, they are trained for exactly this type of situation, there job will be to secure the embassy.
It's curious why we are only sending 50 marines... Sounds like suicide for a handful of them.edit on 12-9-2012 by capone1 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by hounddoghowlie
Originally posted by SrWingCommander[
The Tripoli in the Marine Corp hymn is not Tripoli Libya, it is Tripoli Lebannon (beriut too, I think the area has changed hands several times).
wrong, check this out
missions: 1805: Battle of Derna To the Shores of Tripoli In 1805, the United States government refused to continue paying Barbary Coast pirates to refrain from raiding American merchant ships. When negotiations for a treaty failed, President Thomas Jefferson assembled an expeditionary force of Marines to respond. Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon and his Marines marched across 600 miles of the Libyan Desert to successfully storm the fortified Tripolitan city of Derna and rescue the kidnapped crew of the USS Philadelphia. The Marines' victory helped Prince Hamet Bey reclaim his rightful throne as ruler of Tripoli. In gratitude, he presented his Mameluke sword to Lt O'Bannon. This famous sword became part of the officer uniform in 1825, and remains the oldest ceremonial weapon in use by United States forces today. The Battle of Derna was the Marines' first land battle on foreign soil and is notably recalled in the first verse of the Marines' Hymn: "From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea.
above from this site
Marine Corps Decade Timeline
and here is a wiki for derna
Battle of Derne
i was a marine 0311.
and unless Syria has been in a different place, lebanon has always been beside it. see damascus.
and this from this site.
The Battle of Tripoli
During the summer of 2004, I worked on a 60 minute show for the History Channel entitled "The Battle of Tripoli", which was to tell the story of William Eaton, the American diplomatic envoy to Tunis who went on to lead an army in an attempt to overthrow the ruler of Tripoli (present day Libya), as part of the Barbary Wars. This is the action that was later immortalized in the Marines' Hymn: "...from the Halls of Montezuma, to the Shores of Tripoli."
and a map
see where tripoli is right between egypt and algiers, which is now libya.
edit on 12-9-2012 by hounddoghowlie because: (no reason given)