After nearly 50 years of terror, we are fighting back.
Many Democrats and leftists are falsely claiming that the United States launched an “unprovoked attack” on Iran. Everyone from Kamala Harris to Zohran Mamdani have been echoing variations of the same lies.
Iran has been responsible for the deaths of at least 868 American military personnel.
That includes the deaths of 220 Marines, 18 sailors and 3 soldiers in the Marine Barracks bombing in Beirut, 4 military personnel and 8 CIA deaths in the Beirut embassy bombing in 1983, and 2 more military personnel deaths in the Beirut embassy bombing in 1984.
A Marine had thrown his body in front of the truck to try stop the vehicle and afterward for five days, Nevells and other Marines had dug through the rubble for the bodies of the men they had served with.
One of the first Marines on the scene heard voices coming from underneath the rubble. “Get us out. Don’t leave us.”
The Marines lost more people that day than at any time since Iwo Jima and the number of Americans murdered that day by a terrorist group was a record that would stand until September 11.
They were the lucky ones. When Iran and its assets got its hands on American personnel, genuinely horrifyingly evil stuff happened.
Colonel William R. Higgins was captured by Hezbollah, the terrorist group acting as Iran’s hand in Lebanon, and tortured for months until his body was dumped near a mosque.
An autopsy report found that he had been starved and had suffered multiple lethal injuries that could have caused his death. The skin on his face had been partially removed along with his tongue and he had also been castrated.
Fred Hof, a diplomat who had been a friend of the murdered man, said, “I am one of a small handful of Americans who knows the exact manner of Rich’s death. If I were to describe it to you now – which I will not – I can guarantee that a significant number of people in this room would become physically ill.”
“The State Department, not the Defense Department, had the lead. That meant diplomacy, not military might. It meant no retribution, no retaliation, no rescue,” Robin L. Higgins, his wife, wrote.
Like Higgins, William Francis Buckley, the CIA station chief, was also captured and tortured for months. On video tapes released by his Hezbollah captors, he was incoherent and his mind had been broken by the horrors inflicted on his ravaged body and his soul.
“They had done more than ruin his body,” CIA Director William Casey said. “His eyes made it clear his mind had been played with. It was horrific, medieval and barbarous”
Robert Stethem, a Navy diver, was brutally murdered when Hezbollah terrorists took over TWA flight 847. The Iranian-backed terrorists, one of whom was Imad Mughniyah, beat and kicked him to death.
“They were jumping in the air and landing full force on his body. He must have had all his ribs broken,” Uli Derickson, the stewardess, described. “I was sitting only 15 feet away. I couldn’t listen to it. I put my fingers in my ears. I will never forget. I could still hear. They put the mike up to his face so his screams could be heard by the outside world.”
Then there were the 19 Air Force personnel killed in the Khobar Towers bombing.
After 2001 and U.S. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, another estimated 603 American military personnel were killed using Iranian weapons, tactics and terrorists.
In more recent years, there was the 2024 attack on Tower 22 in Jordan, which killed 3 American military personnel.
That’s a limited list, but it’s big enough. Iran has been killing Americans for nearly 50 years. We lost at least 869 military personnel to their crimes and attacks.
Hitting Iran isn’t an “unprovoked attack”: it’s the slowest burn retaliation in history.
Democrats and Tuckerites may oppose the operation for various reasons. But they shouldn’t lie about what Iran has been doing to us or pretending that we struck first.
“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” Ayatollah Khomeini bragged while holding our hostages.
Its Supreme Leader Khamenei just learned otherwise.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
This is why retaliation should have happened alongside those events – from the hostage crisis of 1979, the barracks bombing in Beirut, the Khobar towers and so on. It’s harder to get the world on your side when you have to randomly pick events over the last 50 years to justify the war
Besides, the only ones responding to the Iranian regime is Israel – thank goodness they are in it! All we are doing is taking down their missile sites, which is good, but could be unneeded once the regime falls
Cynthia says
This is probably the deal Netanyahu made with Trump to get US permission and help to take down Iran..
The US will take equal credit for intelligence while helping with firepower..
In return, Israel will wait until after the midterms to demilitarize Hamas furthering the illusion that Gaza is now peaceful .
somehistory says
How quickly people forget. ilhan elmi the snake, lied about the attack on iran, saying it was to kill muzzies and not because iran had broken international law; Nacy Mace corrected her, but the snake keeps on lying.
The Bible in the Hebrew Scriptures makes clear that ‘when justice is not executed speedily, the heart is set to do bad.’ The hearts of the muzzies is set to do bad from their beginning They commit atrocities, and nothing happens to punish them. Therefore they go on murdering.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“…the snake keeps on lying.”
Yes, and her lying will continue.
As predictable as the ocean tides…
somehistory says
Thank you, James. Yes, that predictable.
somehistory says
“Rashida Tlaib draws heat for seemingly referring to the US as ‘they’ in post condemning attack on Iran”
“Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was called out — including by some nonpartisan critics — for seemingly referring to the U.S. as “they” in a post condemning the attack on Iran, even though she is an elected member of the U.S. Congress.
“Both the U.S. and genocidal Israel doesn’t care about the laws. This is who they are,” Tlaib posted on X on Saturday. Her post included footage of a school that was hit in the military strikes and claimed approximately 40 people were killed; The New York Times on Sunday reported “dozens” were killed in the attack, according to “Iranian health officials and state media.”
Tlaib’s use of “they” stood out to many on X.
Journalist and former New Yorker writer James Surowiecki told Tlaib “You’re a member of Congress. Don’t call the U.S. ‘they.’”
Fox News host Mark Levin sarcastically dubbed Tlaib a “brainiac” and said the Iranian people were overwhelmingly in favor of the strikes against the Ayatollah. “I’m sure they despise you,” he added.
And his Fox News colleague Guy Benson also ripped Tlaib, branding her a “Terrorism apologist” who “uncritically parrots regime propaganda (as she often has for Hamas).”
Conservative commentator Stephen L. Miller suggested Tlaib could leave the USA if she hated it so much. “Ma’am you are free to go,” he posted.
Commentary editor John Podhoretz pointed out she was a part of the U.S. “Or are you just, in the end, a traitor?” he asked.
And there were others on the right who were outraged by Tlaib’s remark”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rashida-tlaib-draws-heat-for-seemingly-referring-to-the-us-as-they-in-post-condemning-attack-on-iran/ar-AA1XjPtd?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=69a5117098ac486f9cc640870d9c61f9&ei=41
biii says
The Dems listed above and Mandami are so HUA they have no idea what they are saying. When Iran says Death to America they mean exactly what they say and as the article tells us they have done their best to kill Americans and of course Israelis as well.
OLD GUY says
Bill you are 100% correct. Now we Americans need to keep out heads on a swivel to protect our homeland from the Islamic followers that side with Iran.
Thanks to Obama and Biden we have a huge number of Islamist that hate America living amongst us. Including in our government.
David Lakatos says
100% correct.
jerry glenn says
Democrat Party surges in the national Islamopandering derby.
B, Cronyn says
When you dig into some of the USA’s history, it is obvious that the so-called “Democrats” have evolved from a political group that fought a bloody war to try and keep slavery in the USA. That is the same mentality as the enslaving Muslims in Iran and elsewhere!
Ralph says
The horrible torture of our Colonel Higgins by itself would have justified Trump’s actions.
gravenimage says
Iran Killed 869 U.S. Military Personnel
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And yet few Americans know about this. Many have forgotten the 1979 Hostage Crisis, as well. Suicidal madness.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
As well as the bombings of the Marine barracks in Beirut that killed more than 250 Americans
gary fouse says
I will never forget how Iran humiliated us in the hostage crisis. We had a different president then- Jimmy Carter, the most feckless president in our history, with the possible exception of Joe Biden.
Finally, I feel that we are achieving retribution against Iran and its mullahs. That regime has to fall. We cannot allow it to survive only to have to fight another day.
Finish the job.