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More american marines died in that attack than had died in any other single attack since iwo jima in world war ii. ronald reagan was the republican president at the too many. the congress was controlled by the democrats at the time. and the democratic speaker of the house, tip o'neill, put congress to work investigating that 1983 attack and put them at work to figure out why it happened and how it could be stopped from happening again. the chairman of that inquiry was bill nichols of alabama. the highest ranking republican was larry hopkins of kentucky. and two months after starting their inqu...

And two months after starting their inquiry, those two congressmen, the democrat and the republican, they together released the results of their panel's investigation into what went wrong in beirut that so many u.s. marines could be murdered in their own barracks. and it was a blistering report. it said the marine commandner beirut when the bombing occurred, quote, bears the principal responsibility for what happened. the responsen't moved up the military chain of command for everyone who failed to see the protocols were totally mismatched to the dapgers they were in in beirut. the president w...