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To: sam_paine
Those quotes are from Hollywood.

Indeed... and this?....

"I don't want to get any messages saying, 'I am holding my position.' We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!"
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Patton's Speech to the Third Army was a speech given by General George S. Patton to troops of the U.S. Third Army on June 5, 1944, the day before D-day. Patton delivered variations of the speech on several different occasions to his troops, although the June 5 date is the most well known. No hard copy of the speech existed, so all of the published versions are from the notes of audience members. It has since become immortalized in George C. Scott's rendition in the movie Patton, where he delivers it in front of a large American flag. Patton's actual words were so colorful that the movie edited and toned down the language. Certain phrases from the speech were also used in Scott's dialogue later on in the film.
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60 posted on 07/12/2010 8:21:46 AM PDT by kanawa (Obama - "It's going to take a while for us to dig ourselves out of this hole.'')
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To: kanawa
If any of those things were said today they would be considered a 'hate crime' by the chattering class of know nothing political pundits.

I would love to have that kind of fight in a political election where you can say what you really think instead of what the wussies think you should say.

62 posted on 07/12/2010 8:34:43 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: kanawa
Have you actually read any of the history of the clusterfrak between Patton and Ike and MacArthur? Did you even know that Ike worked FOR MacArthur early on and that it was a complete political mess?

Not to mention that this has nothing to do with the original analogy....giving that Patton did INDEED need to retreat many times in order to win the greater war.

63 posted on 07/12/2010 8:39:21 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: kanawa

Georgie used to say, “When I want to get their attention, I give it to them loud, and I give it to them dirty.”


76 posted on 07/12/2010 9:56:28 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Hitler Was Their Fate and their Fate Could Not Be Stayed. Von Braustitch.)
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