You're right Lucy! - The media are greedy traitors!
"You are about to embark on the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these past few months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.
But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Out home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together in Victory!
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in combat. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!
Good luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
Dwight D. Eisenhower"
Sixty-two years later. Change the names, change the places: this could have been written yesterday. 'Tis a Great Crusade, and even the Bad Heads know it. They are shaking in their cheap sandals, too. The Infidels are coming, and Death and defeat await.
That's why they're so keen to call this "Vietnam" but it's not: its a full-on Crusade, like D-Day at Normandie. With the same outcome inevitable.
God bless the Troops!
God bless America!
God bless President George W Bush!
“its a full-on Crusade, like D-Day at Normandie”
Please stop using WWII analogy. You know it’s incorrect. We don’t have a draft today, unlike previous Wars.
Our DOD budget per our GDP is not what you would think it should be if we are fighting WWIII. We don’t have this Armanda of men wading across Iraq for the final push to remover terrorist, like we did in WWII.
Instead of raising the number of troops for the final “Crusade” we are cutting back. If Iraq is the center of the War on Terror then we should continue to meet them head on with the finest military in the world. Instead we are going to rely on the Iraqi people to defeat the remaining terrorist.