When general Patton himself saying that we fought for the wrong side, you can't say that he was in the right war at the right time. Unless you meant that he was in the right war at the right time, but fighting for the wrong side. Next, what you said about the marines applies to the entire military. And look at the second Iraq war. All but two of the 9-11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia and we ended up attacking the biggest threat to Saudi Arabia. I'm sure the spirits of all of those hundreds of people who had to jump out of the windows and go splat on the cement weren't very pleased.
Actually you're wrong all the way around. Patton's quote, often paraphrased, was about the Soviet Union being the "real" enemy. Patton added that now that we'd kicked Germany's ass we should do the same to the Soviets. Patton in all that had no particular desire to join Germany in their cause but rather was just prioritizing the Soviets over Germany as an enemy.
No, what I said about the Marines is accurate. The Army shows up second when the war is big enough to necessitate that. In the First Gulf War it was the Marines at sea in theater that were the first to arrive after Kuwait was invaded. The US Army then sent the 82nd Airborne the sole division they had available that was air mobile to reinforce the Marines. The 1st Marine Division deployed next as the Navy had the in house means to send it.
It took the Army months to deploy their divisions in theater. Without land-based airfields, the USAF would have been reduced to a few long-range bombing raids and the Navy would have carried the brunt of the air war.
The Army and Air Force are not set up for rapid deployment overseas for contingencies, the Marines and Navy are.
As for the 9-11 terrorists, most may have been Saudis, but none were living in Saudi Arabia because they knew full well if they were they'd be arrested and tossed in prison because that government saw them for what they were: terrorists. So, they lived overseas. Bin Laden and Saddam Hussien had discussions (Bin Laden sent subordinates for the talks) about cooperating but didn't because of religious differences. That's why Bin Laden and Al Qaeda ended up in Afghanistan with the Taliban. The Taliban were Al Qaeda's kind of religious fanatic nutters. Saddam also helped fund the 9-11 terrorists so they could continue to pay for university training and live overseas even if Saddam wasn't in on their exact plan. Saddam funded many other terrorist groups too at the time.
You're the one who's wrong. Patton may not have liked the ruskies. Who would. But when you say that we fought the wrong enemy or that we fought for the wrong side, that is what he meant. Hitler wasn't the problem. Stalin was. Next, I don't care what branch of the military it is. I lump them all under the same heading. The military. As for the Saudi terrorists, what difference does it make where they were living. They were Saudi. That's enough. Next, there are three different kinds of muslims that I'm aware of. Sunni, Shia and Whhabi. Whhabi is mostly a Saudi thing. And from what I hear, the most fundamentalist of them all. Ever see the Saudi flag? That isn't an olive branch of peace on it. As for what Saddam may or may not have funded, who knows. They also said that he was making nuclear and chemical weapons. That turned out to not be the case either.
This one worked just fine. Ten to fifteen minutes and it was a done deal.
I’m not into gay sex with a witness. We’re in the restaurant, look who’s there and what she did.
Why don’t you just tell him nice? Why don’t you just tell her nice?
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Now it’s tou of us. What did ywo seA. Psychotic!
Lets put them in a room together.
Patton is WAY overrated.
Good at some things.
Bad at others.
He NEVER fought in a campaign (outside of early in Africa and during the Bulge) where he did not have complete and total air superiority.
He fought nothing but a crumbling nation with massive fuel problems that was being bombed by day and night.
All with gigantic superiorities in logistics/troops/equipment.
Any idiot can win battles when he holds all the cards.
It's winning when you don't that takes skill.
Plus he was racist and INCREDIBLY anti-semitic.
He fooled around on his wife like crazy, smacked a shell-shocked soldier and clearly cared more about his place in history than his troops.
His Lorraine Campaign sucked.
And he got hundreds of brave soldiers killed/wounded/captured trying to raid a POW camp (where he thought his son-in-law was) with barely a month left in the war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_Baum
He was not only an overrated General who blabbed his way to fame.
He was also a loser of a human being.
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Because he has this big melon head with a big brain inside.
When ever he gets a headache. He’s forced to take the whole
bottle of extra strength Tylenol.
When were kids he had a bad case of acne and deam says
to him. Yo! What happened, you got attacked by a Hershey bar?
Let me be manipulative behind your back.
One of his immediate relatives ended up in the cam.
Now he works in the can.
Now he got out of the can.
He still works in the can.
He lays low in the background.
Who knows what plans he has in store.
Timothy Kaczynski
Ted McVeigh
What's it mean to resent someone?
Resentment describes a negative emotional reaction to being mistreated. ... A person experiencing resentment will often feel a complex variety of emotions that include anger, disappointment, bitterness, and hard feelings. Resentment is commonly triggered by: Relationships with people who insist on being right all the time.
This is the lie from which all the other lies come from. The Third Army was not going to see combat on D-Day. It was not preparing for combat on D-Day. It was not capable of combat on D-Day. Patton did not even know that D-Day was about to happen.
The Third Army was a diversionary force meant to look like a real combat army, but not actually be a real combat army. The actual forces being used on D-Day was the First Army. Patton had received orders to have as much of the Third Army on leave as possible. They wanted the entire Third Army on the streets of England, so the Germans would think there was no attack about to happen.
It was the easiest assignment given to any military commander, ever, and Patton failed at it. All he had to do was clear out the bases, and have his troops go get drunk. Instead, he grabbed over a thousand troops and gave them a rousing speech to make himself feel better.
Patton lost command because he died. Truman kept Patton in command of the Third even through Patton doing absolutely stupid things.
MacArthur retained command for 6 years after Truman became President. Truman supported MacArthur even as MacArthur broke all rules for military command, not least of which running for political office while in uniform. Truman supported MacArthur through the worst defeat of American forces in the last 150 years. Truman supported MacArthur while MacArthur showed flagrant disrespect to the President, and the American system.
If you had said that Truman killed Patton, that would have made more sense. It would have been untrue, but would have made sense.
Truman allowed MacArthur to retain command for 6 years. Not only allowed him to retain command, but actively gave him an exception to mandatory retirement.
It is a fact that Patton had trouble following simple orders. That failure cost America then, but would cost America far more today.
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trump is a child rapist. We all know it.
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