Did the intro to World War 3 occur on November 4th, 1979?

Question

>This is fairly long, but very informative. First you have to read the catalogue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again. In case you missed it, the intro to World War III was on November 1979... that alarm has been ringing for years.

>US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this action is so necessary.

>AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP!
That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (When more than 3,000 Americans were killed). Maybe it was, but I think it should have been "Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a-

few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.

>It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 25 years.

>America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President Carter, had to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's inability to deal with terrorism. America's military had been decimated and down sized/right sized since the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was doomed from the start.

>>Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued!

April 18, 1983: a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven into the US Embassy compound in Beirut. When it explodes, it kills 63 people. The alarm went off again and America ignored it.

October 23, 1983: a suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives at a U.S. Marine barracks located at Beirut International Airport; 241 U.S. Marines were killed and more than 100 others wounded.

>Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her slumber. America has been under attack since 1979, but we continue to sleep. This sleep has to stop and America needs to wake up.

>I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will continue until we as a people decide enough is enough! America needs to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively now. America has been changed forever. We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to sleep. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "... it seems all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world

Answer 1

That was my 18th birthday! Woo Hoo

I think we ALWAYS have to stay alert. There are very bad people on this earth that want to harm us. We can never hit the snooze button again. The stakes are too high.

Answer 2

Yup - that's the date even tho' some think it was the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut at 6:20 AM on October 23, 1983; an outrage perpetrated by the same gangsters in Tehran that orchestrated the embassy seizure in 1979. Make no mistake - they WILL pay for their crimes. Persians like to think they have long memories when it comes to taking revenge but I don't think they have any monopoly whatsoever in that regard.

Answer 3

No, you need to go back to 1953

The 1953 Iranian coup d'état removed the nationalist cabinet of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh from power, supported by a covert operation, codenamed Operation Ajax (officially TP-AJAX) by the United Kingdom and the United States. The coup was performed in order to support the Pahlavi dynasty and consolidate the power of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, attempting to preserve the Western control of Iran's oil infrastructure and to prevent the rising influence of communists in the Iranian government.

Answer 4

No, it started earlier when our CIA overthrew the Iranian government and installed the Shaw as supreme ruler during the 50's.

This was why the Iranians stormed the embassy in the first place.

Answer 5

The ongoing nuisance conflict with Iran certainly started then, but it was hardly a prelude to world war. It's just, we supported a monarch, he was overthrown, and the revolutionaries decided that hating America was good politics.

Answer 6

The price of freedom is eternal etc.

All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do etc.

I dunno, beat the war drum if it suits ya, just don't expect me to. Afghanistan made sense, Iraq was simply and purely a hand picked war/distraction. Ya I am glad Saddam got what he deserved, but now what will we leave in his stead?

Answer 7

In spite of your paranoid ramblings I still want our troops home.... maybe if our leaders could manage a war in that region I MIGHT feel differently but they can't so why waste the money and the lives on more mismanagement?

Answer 8

possibly. I think it may have started before that though

here is something very long to help you figure out the answer.

http://www.aiipowmia.com/other/iranhstgcrss80.html

Answer 9

No. The hostage crisis is over. Thanks to President Bush. President Bush has finished off the libs and terrorists once and for all! Now elections are totally unnecessary.