Pence Honors Memory of Marines Killed in 1983 Beirut Bombing
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Vice President Mike Pence on Monday honored the memory of 241 U.S. service members killed in the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, calling the three-decade-old attack the "opening salvo" in the war against terrorism.
Pence and White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster paid tribute to the service members, including 220 Marines, on the anniversary of the deadly truck bombing during President Ronald Reagan's first term.
The vice president pointed to President Donald Trump's recent decision to decertify the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, which was tied to the bombing, and placed the 1983 attack as the first battle in the nation's ongoing war against terrorism. He also recalled the 58 French paratroopers who died when a second attacker struck their installation in Beirut.
"The Beirut barracks bombing was the opening salvo in a war that we have waged ever since — the global war on terror. It's a conflict that has taken American troops across the wider world — from Lebanon to Libya, from Nigeria to Afghanistan, from Somalia to Iraq, and many other battlefields in between," he said.
Pence said under Trump's leadership, "we will drive the cancer of terrorism from the face of the earth."
The Beirut bombing was the deadliest attack against U.S. Marines since the battle over Iwo Jima in February 1945. The ceremony and parade at the Marine Barracks in Washington was attended by retired Lt. Col. Larry Gerlach, the commander of the battalion landing team who survived the bombing, and families of service members who were killed.
Pence told the audience of his personal connection to the incident: His brother, Greg Pence, served in the Marines and was stationed at the Beirut barracks around the time of the attack.
The vice president said he and his parents and other family members worried about his brother's safety when they heard about the bombing. Days later, Greg Pence, who is now running for Congress in Indiana, called home to tell his family that his battalion had shipped out shortly before the bombing.
"I promise all of you, just like my brother, we'll never forget. We'll never forget the 241 who never had that chance," Pence said.
24 October 2017, 13:54
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Did those two dead iranian shia terrorists in your avatar die as invaders?
24 October 2017, 16:55
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The U.S Marines bombing in 1983 marked the birth of the Resistance.
The day the Americans were defeated in Lebanon, they still remember that day in horror.
Americans are in fact not a strong nation without their technology, a few fighters are lost and then they retreat.
24 October 2017, 16:56
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Israel is the sa,e way with the IDF, a few losses and then they want a ceasefire.
24 October 2017, 15:30
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and you think the iranian heretic above recognizes the existence of a Lebanese government or Lebanon for that matter?
24 October 2017, 16:59
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Watch this beautiful picture.
What a wonderful view, American marines.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Beirutbarr.jpg
24 October 2017, 17:52
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Chris:
The shia are not the majority sect in Lebanon; the sunnis are. If you consider the Lebanese expatriates into the equation, Lebanese Christians are the largest religious community in Lebanon. So, spare us your old broken record and educate yourself for once.
24 October 2017, 18:06
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Ashtah we do not live in year 1932 anymore.
The Shia in Lebanon are the biggest Lebanese Ethnic group inside Lebanon now.
http://www.lewishistoricalsociety.com/wiki/article_image.php?id=128
24 October 2017, 18:47
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You and israel are lovers, I'm saying you're a hypocrite just like them. PS not Jewish, but that seems to be all your limited mentality is capable of. Feel like crying more Mystique?^
24 October 2017, 19:00
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The most recent study conducted by Statistics Lebanon, a Beirut-based research firm, found that approximately Lebanon's population is estimated to be 54% Muslim (27% Shia; 27% Sunni), 5.6% Druze, who do not consider themselves to be Muslims, 40.4% Christian (21% Maronite, 8% Greek Orthodox, 5% Melkite, 1% Protestant and 5.4% other Christian denominations like Armenian Orthodox, Armenian Catholic, Syriac Catholic, Syriac Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Chaldean, Assyrian, Copt).[5]
The CIA World Factbook estimates the following: Muslim 54% (27% Sunni, 27% Shia), Christian 40.5% (includes 21% Maronite Catholic, 8% Greek Orthodox, 5% Greek Catholic, 6.5% other Christian), Druze 5.6%, very small numbers of Jews, Baha'is, Buddhists, Hindus, and Mormons .[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Lebanon
24 October 2017, 19:18
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How can there be exact same 27% of each muslim group?
You should know for a fact that the CIA likes to keep the Shia numbers down, because the Pro-American Sunnis have the Prime Minister post.
24 October 2017, 19:21
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Wikipedia also states this, but ofcourse you didn't want to include that in your comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_Islam_in_Lebanon
According to other sources the Lebanese Shia Muslims constitute approximately 50% of the entire population (or 2.0 million out of a total population of 4 million)
24 October 2017, 20:45
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50% or 40% that still makes it the biggest ethnic group in Lebanon.
25 October 2017, 00:42
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Fun facts:
-The Lebanese army is a politically paralyzed police force
-14 March's current members succeeded and attempted to have foreign forces occupy Lebanese soil (Israel through the Gemayels and Al Qaeda through Mustaqbal)
-14 March is also known as the "we sell our own blood for money" in Lebanon due to them joining governments with "assassins and syrian loyalists" and proved to their useless dimwitted followers that they too are expendable (always)
-Lebanese sunnis haven't done a patriotic move since 600 A.D
-14 March losing in every endeavour, again (never gets old)
-This forum is full of collaborators and resident treasonous whores, who apparently want a democratic western style state, yet can't handle other opinions and resort to reporting and down voting comments like abused teens
-These same whores accuse Hezbollah of controlling Lebanon, yet with the very forum you spew your cancer on's continued existence proves the exact opposite
