I remember that thread very well, I even agreed with the “It’s all conspiracy talking points” at the time. But as time has gone by, I have seen how infested Free Republic gets at times by ‘Trolls’ and others with an agenda. I have gone back and looked at things with a more critical eye. And I am more skeptical of those who do the trolling.
So to put things straight, do I think Patton was assassinated? I don’t know. His death was awfully convenient for those we now know were Communist sympathizers and moles in the U.S. Government at the time.
What I do believe though is that the Post-WW II political scene would have been a LOT different if he had gone back to the U.S. and become an elected Public Official such as a Senator.
“What I do believe though is that the Post-WW II political scene would have been a LOT different if he had gone back to the U.S. and become an elected Public Official such as a Senator.”
He had already said that he was giving up his officer’s commission and retirement benefits to go home and enter politics in opposition to an undisclosed political issue. We already know that Soviet POWs were being rounded up and shipped out of Trieste onboard a ship and disembarked at Sevastopol, where they were taken off the gangplank behind a wall and shot right there at the dock. When the allies balked at returning more of the Soviet POWs, Stalin held the Allied POWs hostage. The dispute from that point on is what did or did not happen to the Allied POWs in Soviet captivity and how many of them there were. Some sources put the number of American POWs at somewhere around 25,000 and British Commonwealth at about 38,000 or thereabouts if I remember correctly.
People, as we see with the airliner, are extremely reluctant to accept the maxim that Sh#t happens.