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To: LM_Guy

Yea and didnt Eisenhower screw up WW2?


13 posted on 09/06/2007 10:17:53 AM PDT by woofie
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To: woofie
"Yea and didnt Eisenhower screw up WW2?"

So wierd. Many of the people damning Bush are praising the new biography of Ike as a paean to an authentic hero. Yet it was Eisenhower who badly managed the landings in North Africa, in which American soldiers drowned off the beaches because of the lack of stable landing craft, (much like the unarmored HumVee "scandal"), It was Eisenhower who lost men by the thousands in unneceesary attacks and even in training accidents. It was Eisenhower who targeted civilians in the cities where they died by the hundreds of thousands.

Meantime Bush has presided over a war notable for its lack of American loss of life, and concerning the Iraqis, has treated them with the highest ethical standards in the history of warfare.

War is chaos and ugly, and all wars are marked by errors which are glaring in hindsight but generally unpredicted in advance. So it was in WWII and so it is in Iraq and all future conflicts. If you can't accept it, go join the pacifists (whom I once followed).

----Father of an Iraq veteran.

23 posted on 09/06/2007 9:41:04 PM PDT by cookcounty (Murtha, World's Dumbest Marine Officer, --He can't find Okinawa on a map..)
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