Reply #24: Embassy guards are armed. [View All]

Marine security forces are probably more lethal than Blackwater :evilgrin: And that's a good thing.

But to be fair, I think it stinks that Russert wanted the candidates to take a stupid "pledge". Most not knowing what Bush knows. I don't think they're privvy to that kind of intelligence until they're officially the nominee.

Remember the Beirut Barracks bombing? They were peacekeepers and politics dictated to them....do not put rounds in your chambers. Then what happened when the guard shack was overrun that morning?

My husband took his battalion in next to "guard the embassy", but he disobeyed the order, and let the men put bullets in their weapons. The U.S. Ambassador in Beirut was PISSED, so REagan brought the Marines home, my husband didn't make General, and no American lives were lost.

The rest is history in that region.