President Reagan's Address to the Nation on U.S. Air Strike against Libya - 4/14/86

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  • President Reagan's Address to the Nation on United States Air Strike against Libya on 4/14/86.
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  • @antduude
    @antduude 13 лет назад +126

    This is what a President and Commander-In-Chief sounds like.

  • @MondoBeno
    @MondoBeno 10 лет назад +110

    Reagan was smart enough to keep the attacks brief.

  • @Science_afterhours
    @Science_afterhours 10 лет назад +139

    Finally found the whole speech that is used in Gods of War by Def Leppard.

  • @mikeevans5810
    @mikeevans5810 8 лет назад +198

    that's what a real president looks like, and acts like, miss this guy

  • @ElliottAS
    @ElliottAS 10 лет назад +191

    "He counted on america to be passive.....he counted wrong!"
    I absolutely love president Reagan. The world would be a different place today if Reagan was our president. Our current leader is a goofball.

    • @jpizzle990
      @jpizzle990 10 лет назад +16

      I agree 100%. We need another Reagan!!!

    • @ElliottAS
      @ElliottAS 9 лет назад +6

      Right on jon

    • @babykevinxoxo
      @babykevinxoxo 9 лет назад +11

      all Presidents after Reagan are idiots.

    • @ElliottAS
      @ElliottAS 9 лет назад +1

      I understand and agree with your point of view. No room in this world did a nazi.

    • @RawUndergroundMusic
      @RawUndergroundMusic 9 лет назад +17

      This Regan quote was sampled in "Def Leppard - God of War"

  • @ebsnodgrass
    @ebsnodgrass 14 лет назад +48

    Why can't today's leaders be more honest and direct like Reagan?

  • @sakusia
    @sakusia 11 лет назад +42

    " When our citizens are attacked..." .You know Reagan wasn't bullshiting. I've heard this from an American military person that no country takes care of its citizens better than the USA when confronted with hostile situations.

  • @JohnnyUtah15
    @JohnnyUtah15 11 лет назад +51

    Yes, I too remember this and some of his other speeches. I was 18 and was enlisting into the Air Force. I miss his leadership qualities and was damn proud to have him as Commander in Chief.
    RIP Mr. President. I tip my wing to you, sir.

  • @j2times2006
    @j2times2006 8 лет назад +33

    "We're fighting for the gods of war..."

  • @stevenpye7765
    @stevenpye7765 9 лет назад +79

    I miss Ronald----- he was a true leader

  • @larrymcallister1578
    @larrymcallister1578 7 лет назад +28

    i was a kid eating dinner with my family when reagan made his broadcast. best dam president we ever had.

  • @jdhaynes9887
    @jdhaynes9887 10 лет назад +20

    I wish we had him now

  • @djwolf12
    @djwolf12 10 лет назад +177

    Hands down, Ronald Reagan is and will always be the greatest President during my lifetime.

  • @M1IRONMIKE
    @M1IRONMIKE 10 лет назад +42

    The last great american president......God Bless Ronald Reagan!

  • @steviegr36
    @steviegr36 11 лет назад +21

    Mr. President we could sure use you now.. What great Man and a great President you were...

  • @sevenzdown
    @sevenzdown 13 лет назад +10

    So that's what a leader sounds like. Pretty cool.

  • @Cholmeleian
    @Cholmeleian 9 лет назад +27

    Reagan and Thatcher - the dream team!

  • @nickd9356
    @nickd9356 8 лет назад +31

    This is the best speech i ever heard in my entire life.

  • @davidtipton5610
    @davidtipton5610 8 лет назад +25

    I love that line. He delivered it perfectly

  • @lioncub6969
    @lioncub6969 13 лет назад +19

    Regan is amazing, he even knows exactly how Libyan people feel toward Qaddafi, I am Libyan and I feel it when he said ( before Qaddafi seized power in 1969 the people of Libya had been friends of the united states, and I am sure that today most Libyans are ashamed and disgusted that this man has made their country a synonym for barbarism, )

  • @user-or6jc1vm2w
    @user-or6jc1vm2w 8 лет назад +13

    Homeland!

  • @drb1979
    @drb1979 13 лет назад +5

    shame we dont have anybody like Reagan around anymore.

  • @bigfactsbroski
    @bigfactsbroski 11 лет назад +14

    I was born during Reagan's presidency and I have only seen things go downhill from then. What it must have been like to live under a real American president and not some demagoguing sideshow clown like we have today.

  • @987steel
    @987steel 14 лет назад +5

    Well said...I couldn't agree more

  • @vvetere86
    @vvetere86 8 лет назад +62

    I'm canadian but Reagan was a great President if I could vote in your country he would have mine both times Obama is a disaster.

  • @TotalLifeVictoryTV
    @TotalLifeVictoryTV 11 лет назад +10

    This is leadership! God, please have mercy on our nation. We need you! Thank you Reagan Foundation.
    ~Shalom to America

  • @tabfiend
    @tabfiend 13 лет назад +25

    I remember listening to this live here in Melbourne, Australia at the time and being in awe of an American President who had the guts to respond decisively to acts of terrorism. Gaddafi, amazingly, is still "peddling his wares" in Libya and must have more lives than a cat. But his day is almost over. As Ghandi said, "In the end they (dictators) always fall. Think of that. Always".

  • @rob25910
    @rob25910 12 лет назад +4

    We love you & miss you Ronnie....

  • @playerzgb
    @playerzgb 11 лет назад +9

    REAGAN - THE BEST PRESIDENT AMERICA EVER HAD

  • @GJones462-2W1
    @GJones462-2W1 13 лет назад +6

    My F-111F's from RAF Lakenheath, UK flew the strike mission that night on mutiple targets in Tripoli. After that, we said that Libya stood for, Lakenheath Is Bombing Your Ass!!!! He was one tough President. Good times!

  • @dwayne68d
    @dwayne68d 11 лет назад +5

    Like a BOSS!!!!!!!! The IDIOTS currently in charge should be made to take a few pages out of this great American president's playbook .You were an AMAZING president and real COMMANDER IN CHIEF!!!!!! GOD rest your soul,you are certainly,after all these years missed because of your honest patriotism and TRUE COMMITMENT to OUR way of life!!!!!

  • @SN2903
    @SN2903 11 лет назад +9

    A Great man. RIP

  • @MrAccessmilton
    @MrAccessmilton 14 лет назад +8

    This is what being a true Commander In Cheif is all about. What has happened to this kind of leadership?

  • @jaddaway
    @jaddaway 14 лет назад +8

    GOD BLESS YOU MISTER PRESIDENT

  • @bigwillietheb
    @bigwillietheb 11 лет назад +5

    we need another Ronald Reagan

  • @haroldjameson7348
    @haroldjameson7348 11 лет назад +10

    Operation El Dorado Canyon was the greatest military operation in history.

  • @littlelouie11
    @littlelouie11 14 лет назад +13

    Can you image if Reagan was president today? I can't imagine the Iraq war would still be going on. Reagan was a very decisive leader.

  • @brawy1
    @brawy1 13 лет назад +6

    President Reagan, you are truly missed. We so need another leader like you now.

  • @Jok3r2205
    @Jok3r2205 11 лет назад +6

    Great man, great President. We need him now more than ever...

  • @rstryker27
    @rstryker27 15 лет назад +7

    I really miss this guy. A real leader.

  • @obiforcemaster
    @obiforcemaster 12 лет назад +3

    God, please bring us another Ronald Reagan!

  • @bjr43
    @bjr43 13 лет назад +4

    Great speech.

  • @bobgunderson3960
    @bobgunderson3960 10 лет назад +17

    the last real america president, RONALD REAGAN

  • @ERam0912
    @ERam0912 11 лет назад +3

    Men like Reagan we need now.

  • @TheMedici23
    @TheMedici23 12 лет назад +3

    Boy we miss you Mr. President!

  • @MsBeccaLeigh
    @MsBeccaLeigh 13 лет назад +3

    My dad was on the carrier that fired the missles....I just was told last weekend. I was only 3 yrs old at the time

  • @Sredderdude01
    @Sredderdude01 14 лет назад +6

    God Bless Ronald Reagan

  • @stevepaul6955
    @stevepaul6955 9 лет назад +37

    Mr Obama, take good look at a REAL president in action.

    • @onomatopoeia162003
      @onomatopoeia162003 8 лет назад +1

      +Steve Paul lol. look what they did about the AID's epidemic

    • @StraightFashionMan
      @StraightFashionMan 8 лет назад +1

      +Steve Paul Mr Obama did, because he is a REAL president who defends our country.

  • @Labaron26
    @Labaron26 10 лет назад +23

    This is Leadership......Unlike what we have today in Obama, a gutless wonder.

  • @XLENDIBAY1
    @XLENDIBAY1 3 года назад +3

    I was there !

  • @paidmeat
    @paidmeat 12 лет назад +3

    This is what a President looks like

  • @ctcole77
    @ctcole77 10 лет назад +8

    Get him Ronnie!

  • @juandegollado8245
    @juandegollado8245 11 лет назад +5

    the best president ever

  • @Mark.Watson
    @Mark.Watson 14 лет назад

    Thanks for posting. Please clean up the audio on these videos.

  • @caribbeansun
    @caribbeansun 15 лет назад +4

    This was a truely great and principled man. I wish we had someone like that in the whitehouse today.
    Instead we have an individual that provides bailouts for buying too much house, is trying to destroy our healthcare system by spreading mediocrity and penalizes success thru increased taxation.

  • @tracdazell22
    @tracdazell22 13 лет назад +4

    Ronald Reagan was a great American leader. Too bad no one has replaced him. Gaddafi would probably go the way of Noriega if the Gipper was still around.

  • @fkreller1
    @fkreller1 13 лет назад +4

    Ronnie Raygun don't mess around.

  • @8idmech
    @8idmech 12 лет назад +1

    All of them.

  • @KellyLyndon
    @KellyLyndon 12 лет назад +6

    Reagen was a wonderful man

  • @MarkPerrotte
    @MarkPerrotte 11 лет назад +5

    290 thumbs up and 13 down. For a politician, that speaks for itself. I was 14 yrs old when this happened, and prouder than I am at 41. I used to watch him land in Palm Springs on my bicycle. Love this man and all he did for this nation. It has been all downhill since and will continue. Obama...your such a failure.

  • @timmynguyen3810
    @timmynguyen3810 8 лет назад +3

    when will we have another Reagan lead this country again?

  • @steveeisenhowereisenhower7130
    @steveeisenhowereisenhower7130 10 лет назад +8

    Wow a super president unlike the stupper president we have now

  • @NeuroDeviant421
    @NeuroDeviant421 12 лет назад

    how many are there?

  • @DGolfer60
    @DGolfer60 11 лет назад +3

    What a President we had in Ronald Reagan and what a piece of crap we have now!

  • @rob25910
    @rob25910 13 лет назад +2

    @fredricks74
    My thoughts exactly...

  • @davidlaplante6315
    @davidlaplante6315 12 лет назад +1

    the greatest ever

  • @3dofanatic
    @3dofanatic 13 лет назад

    @MsBeccaLeigh which carrier my father was on the coral sea when we fired on libya

  • @robertcraddock4722
    @robertcraddock4722 7 лет назад +3

    RIP RR!! Wish you were here!!! You wouldn't out up with this shit!!

  • @GraydenProductions
    @GraydenProductions 13 лет назад +1

    @Cbarrett94 Not anymore! :)

  • @IshadaKatzteilov
    @IshadaKatzteilov 13 лет назад +1

    What little we all know.

  • @davidlaplante6315
    @davidlaplante6315 12 лет назад +3

    this is what a real amercain is about

  • @SuperThunderlips
    @SuperThunderlips 10 лет назад +12

    Obama should listen to 3:40 mark.....but we all know he doesn't care.

  • @johnanthonyp
    @johnanthonyp 10 лет назад +1

    Lets talk ten terms.

  • @loikmg
    @loikmg 10 лет назад +1

    hi

  • @hurpdurpdurpity
    @hurpdurpdurpity 11 лет назад +1

    Holding people responsible, and actually following through with things obama take note

  • @Th3ba1r0n
    @Th3ba1r0n 13 лет назад +2

    I smell history repeating.

  • @TheHitch6287
    @TheHitch6287 12 лет назад +1

    In my opinion President Clinton took too long in quelling Milosevic, and should have acted in Rwanda (which he publicly regretted not doing). In a largely domestically involved decade he did a great job, but his foreign policy and lack of combating terrorism led to some of the international crises that went on and are still going on today

  • @JoeCnNd
    @JoeCnNd 6 лет назад +4

    Stranger things brought me here.... But that was 1983.

  • @LynetteTheMadScientist
    @LynetteTheMadScientist 8 лет назад +1

    UndeadReagan2016

  • @matthewgalati3429
    @matthewgalati3429 8 лет назад

    IYAOYAS!!!!!!

  • @t762
    @t762 10 лет назад +1

    Well you're pretty good old son, but sit down in that chair right there, lemme show you how it's done. I hate war, but if you're gonna do something, do it.

  • @ed20if
    @ed20if 13 лет назад +1

    Obama should be watching this mans tapes so he can learn how to lead

  • @BruiserKC
    @BruiserKC 12 лет назад +1

    @littlelouie11 Reagan actually used a lot of common sense and compromise, he wouldn't be president today. He was known on Fridays to have a drink and a laugh with Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill (heaven forbid a Dem and a Rep have a moment to chill). He'd be impeached for that now.

  • @TheMattd546
    @TheMattd546 10 лет назад

    yup very true. even President bush didn't use a teleprompter for some speeches. just a few. but Obama was lost at a speech when the teleprompter broke.

  • @Hard_Boiled_Entertainment
    @Hard_Boiled_Entertainment 13 лет назад +4

    "Tonight...we have."
    ...and Gadaffi crawled into a hole after this, and cried like a baby.

  • @martinkeene9413
    @martinkeene9413 12 лет назад +1

    Horse feathers!

  • @Nonna518
    @Nonna518 8 лет назад +13

    What an amazing speech. Obama needs to read this and crooked Hillary. Last two minutes so poignant and powerful.

  • @rms5324
    @rms5324 13 лет назад

    Obama - Listen to 2:59 and 6:30, end of issue and $4+ gas.

  • @mjakes20
    @mjakes20 13 лет назад +1

    @3dofanatic Agreed, and Hillary Clinton and the U.N better just deal with Gadaffi, and stop whining and moaning about a no fly zone and what not.

  • @AntiNeocons
    @AntiNeocons 13 лет назад

    Reagan endorsed Ron Paul.

  • @BelAir1968
    @BelAir1968 11 лет назад +1

    He could try.....spend two trillion dollars, and then blame George Bush for the bad job....

  • @save16thave
    @save16thave 13 лет назад

    I wish Obama would take care of the Somalian pirates like Reagan took care of those Libyan terrorists. 86 seems like such a long time ago.

  • @cmg91101
    @cmg91101 11 лет назад +3

    gotta be fair. I am against Obama on many fronts, But as far as the war on terrorism goes he has been pretty tight, Reagan was great, but its not fair to call the current president a "piece of crap" on this issue. He makes Reagan look like Carter. Put simply even if u disagree on many issues don't merge that with terrorism response. IMO he has been a bit too aggressive.
    - Signed- card carrying Republican who smartened up and turned libertarian