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With tens of thousands of young Americans buried in France who died there fighting to liberate that nation of cowards who surrendered their capital city to Adolf Hitler without firing a shot, I find it amusing when they find the spine to refuse help to America when we ask for it. My favorite instance of this, will always be our raid on Libya during Ronald Reagan's tenure as commander-in-chief. In order to get Moammar Kadhafi's attention, Reagan ordered a squadron of F-111 bombers to launch from their base in Great Britain to strike multiple targets in and around Tripoli. The direct route from their base to their Libyan targets took them directly across the center of France. The request was made from the president of the United States for permission to overfly French airspace. The French of course, who had been selling weapons to the terrorist nation of Libya for years, refused our request. This resulted in our bomber crews having to fly 10 additional hours, five each way, down the western coast of Spain and Portugal, over the Strait of Gibraltar, and clear across the Mediterranean to make the strike. They then had to reverse this marathon course, requiring multiple aerial refuelings, back to Great Britain. Our strikes upon Libya narrowly missed killing Qaddafi himself, and did kill at least one (and maybe more) of his family members. Most of our bombs found their targets with pinpoint accuracy except for one that went astray. That one errant missile slammed right through the roof of the French Embassy, destroying a large part of that structure. President Reagan issued an apology for that "accident". Perhaps our valiant aircrews would have had better aim, if they were not so tired, from such a long flight. This is a true story, I have embellished nothing.
That one precision guided bomb that went off course, destroying the French Embassy in Tripoli, spoke for all Americans from coast to coast. FTF
God bless America,
Chip
With tens of thousands of young Americans buried in France who died there fighting to liberate that nation of cowards who surrendered their capital city to Adolf Hitler without firing a shot, I find it amusing when they find the spine to refuse help to America when we ask for it. My favorite instance of this, will always be our raid on Libya during Ronald Reagan's tenure as commander-in-chief. In order to get Moammar Kadhafi's attention, Reagan ordered a squadron of F-111 bombers to launch from their base in Great Britain to strike multiple targets in and around Tripoli. The direct route from their base to their Libyan targets took them directly across the center of France. The request was made from the president of the United States for permission to overfly French airspace. The French of course, who had been selling weapons to the terrorist nation of Libya for years, refused our request. This resulted in our bomber crews having to fly 10 additional hours, five each way, down the western coast of Spain and Portugal, over the Strait of Gibraltar, and clear across the Mediterranean to make the strike. They then had to reverse this marathon course, requiring multiple aerial refuelings, back to Great Britain. Our strikes upon Libya narrowly missed killing Qaddafi himself, and did kill at least one (and maybe more) of his family members. Most of our bombs found their targets with pinpoint accuracy except for one that went astray. That one errant missile slammed right through the roof of the French Embassy, destroying a large part of that structure. President Reagan issued an apology for that "accident". Perhaps our valiant aircrews would have had better aim, if they were not so tired, from such a long flight. This is a true story, I have embellished nothing.
That one precision guided bomb that went off course, destroying the French Embassy in Tripoli, spoke for all Americans from coast to coast. FTF
God bless America,
Chip
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