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 ปีที่แล้ว +139

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

  • @mikeevans5810
    @mikeevans5810 8 ปีที่แล้ว +205

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

  • @ElliottAS
    @ElliottAS 10 ปีที่แล้ว +194

    "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 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @ElliottAS
      @ElliottAS 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Right on jon

    • @babykevinxoxo
      @babykevinxoxo 10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      all Presidents after Reagan are idiots.

    • @ElliottAS
      @ElliottAS 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @RawUndergroundMusic
      @RawUndergroundMusic 9 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

  • @MondoBeno
    @MondoBeno 10 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    Reagan was smart enough to keep the attacks brief.

  • @djwolf12
    @djwolf12 10 ปีที่แล้ว +178

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

  • @Science_afterhours
    @Science_afterhours 10 ปีที่แล้ว +143

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

  • @JohnnyUtah15
    @JohnnyUtah15 11 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    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.

  • @ebsnodgrass
    @ebsnodgrass 14 ปีที่แล้ว +50

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

  • @stevenpye7765
    @stevenpye7765 9 ปีที่แล้ว +79

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

  • @j2times2006
    @j2times2006 8 ปีที่แล้ว +36

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

  • @larrymcallister1578
    @larrymcallister1578 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

  • @sakusia
    @sakusia 11 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    " 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.

  • @M1IRONMIKE
    @M1IRONMIKE 10 ปีที่แล้ว +44

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

  • @steviegr36
    @steviegr36 11 ปีที่แล้ว +21

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

  • @nickd9356
    @nickd9356 8 ปีที่แล้ว +32

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

  • @jdhaynes9887
    @jdhaynes9887 10 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I wish we had him now

  • @lioncub6969
    @lioncub6969 13 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    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, )

  • @sevenzdown
    @sevenzdown 13 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

  • @Cholmeleian
    @Cholmeleian 9 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Reagan and Thatcher - the dream team!

  • @davidtipton5610
    @davidtipton5610 8 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I love that line. He delivered it perfectly

  • @TotalLifeVictoryTV
    @TotalLifeVictoryTV 12 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

  • @playerzgb
    @playerzgb 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    REAGAN - THE BEST PRESIDENT AMERICA EVER HAD

  • @bigfactsbroski
    @bigfactsbroski 11 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @vvetere86
    @vvetere86 8 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @tabfiend
    @tabfiend 13 ปีที่แล้ว +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".

  • @SN2903
    @SN2903 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A Great man. RIP

  • @drb1979
    @drb1979 13 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    shame we dont have anybody like Reagan around anymore.

  • @rob25910
    @rob25910 13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We love you & miss you Ronnie....

  • @GJones462-2W1
    @GJones462-2W1 13 ปีที่แล้ว +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!

  • @987steel
    @987steel 15 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Well said...I couldn't agree more

  • @MrAccessmilton
    @MrAccessmilton 14 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

  • @user-or6jc1vm2w
    @user-or6jc1vm2w 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Homeland!

  • @stevepaul6955
    @stevepaul6955 9 ปีที่แล้ว +37

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

    • @onomatopoeia162003
      @onomatopoeia162003 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @StraightFashionMan
      @StraightFashionMan 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @brawy1
    @brawy1 13 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @jaddaway
    @jaddaway 14 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    GOD BLESS YOU MISTER PRESIDENT

  • @littlelouie11
    @littlelouie11 14 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @Jok3r2205
    @Jok3r2205 12 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @dwayne68d
    @dwayne68d 12 ปีที่แล้ว +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!!!!!

  • @bigwillietheb
    @bigwillietheb 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    we need another Ronald Reagan

  • @rstryker27
    @rstryker27 15 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I really miss this guy. A real leader.

  • @ERam0912
    @ERam0912 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Men like Reagan we need now.

  • @bobgunderson3960
    @bobgunderson3960 10 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    the last real america president, RONALD REAGAN

  • @haroldjameson7348
    @haroldjameson7348 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

  • @Sredderdude01
    @Sredderdude01 14 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    God Bless Ronald Reagan

  • @obiforcemaster
    @obiforcemaster 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    God, please bring us another Ronald Reagan!

  • @Labaron26
    @Labaron26 10 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

  • @TheMedici23
    @TheMedici23 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Boy we miss you Mr. President!

  • @paidmeat
    @paidmeat 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is what a President looks like

  • @MsBeccaLeigh
    @MsBeccaLeigh 13 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @juandegollado8245
    @juandegollado8245 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    the best president ever

  • @caribbeansun
    @caribbeansun 15 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @bjr43
    @bjr43 13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great speech.

  • @tracdazell22
    @tracdazell22 13 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @ctcole77
    @ctcole77 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Get him Ronnie!

  • @KellyLyndon
    @KellyLyndon 13 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Reagen was a wonderful man

  • @XLENDIBAY1
    @XLENDIBAY1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was there !

  • @DGolfer60
    @DGolfer60 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @fkreller1
    @fkreller1 13 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ronnie Raygun don't mess around.

  • @timmynguyen3810
    @timmynguyen3810 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    when will we have another Reagan lead this country again?

  • @MarkPerrotte
    @MarkPerrotte 11 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @steveeisenhowereisenhower7130
    @steveeisenhowereisenhower7130 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wow a super president unlike the stupper president we have now

  • @davidlaplante6315
    @davidlaplante6315 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this is what a real amercain is about

  • @SuperThunderlips
    @SuperThunderlips 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

  • @8idmech
    @8idmech 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All of them.

  • @davidlaplante6315
    @davidlaplante6315 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the greatest ever

  • @robertcraddock4722
    @robertcraddock4722 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @Mark.Watson
    @Mark.Watson 15 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @IshadaKatzteilov
    @IshadaKatzteilov 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What little we all know.

  • @TheHitch6287
    @TheHitch6287 12 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @hurpdurpdurpity
    @hurpdurpdurpity 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Th3ba1r0n
    @Th3ba1r0n 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I smell history repeating.

  • @johnanthonyp
    @johnanthonyp 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lets talk ten terms.

  • @JoeCnNd
    @JoeCnNd 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @rob25910
    @rob25910 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @fredricks74
    My thoughts exactly...

  • @BruiserKC
    @BruiserKC 12 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @Hard_Boiled_Entertainment
    @Hard_Boiled_Entertainment 14 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @3dofanatic
    @3dofanatic 13 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @GraydenProductions
    @GraydenProductions 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @Cbarrett94 Not anymore! :)

  • @ed20if
    @ed20if 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @Nonna518
    @Nonna518 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

  • @t762
    @t762 11 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @NeuroDeviant421
    @NeuroDeviant421 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    how many are there?

  • @LynetteTheMadScientist
    @LynetteTheMadScientist 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    UndeadReagan2016

  • @loikmg
    @loikmg 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    hi

  • @mjakes20
    @mjakes20 13 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @TheMattd546
    @TheMattd546 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @matthewgalati3429
    @matthewgalati3429 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    IYAOYAS!!!!!!

  • @martinkeene9413
    @martinkeene9413 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Horse feathers!

  • @save16thave
    @save16thave 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @rms5324
    @rms5324 13 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @BelAir1968
    @BelAir1968 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @AntiNeocons
    @AntiNeocons 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Reagan endorsed Ron Paul.

  • @cmg91101
    @cmg91101 11 ปีที่แล้ว +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