War Anniversary

The historically challenged worry about America launching a war on Iran over the nuclear ambitions of the mullahs even as Iran continues a terror campaign against us that includes the current effort to kill Americans in Iraq and extends back to the Khobar Towers bombing, the Tanker War in the Gulf, and the Beirtut barracks bombing.

So perhaps we schould remember that this is the 28th anniversary of the mullah war on America:

Thousands of Iranians nationwide demonstrated Sunday to celebrate the 28th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy by militant students, state television reported.

Demonstrators in the capital, Tehran, including elementary school students, gathered outside the former U.S. Embassy, chanting anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli slogans. They burned the two countries' flags and warned Washington to learn from the hostile incident.

The takeover, which occurred during Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, severely damaged relations between the two countries. The 52 Americans who were held hostage during the crisis were returned after 444 days, but the U.S. cut off diplomatic ties with Iran to protest the incident.

The assault and capture of our embassy was an invasion of sovereign American territory and represented an act of war. Just because we've refused to acknowledge this war does not make it any less of a war from Iran's point of view.