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A message from General Patton
oldbluejacket.com ^ | 111105 | Warren Willis

Posted on 11/18/2005 10:44:35 AM PST by FreedomFarmer

A message from the ghost of General George S. Patton.


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To: FreedomFarmer
General George S. Patton:

"There is only one tactical principal which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death, and destruction in the minimum amount of time."

"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."

21 posted on 11/18/2005 11:21:13 AM PST by Doomonyou (FR doesn't suffer fools lightly.)
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To: Michael.SF.

That is because he was a Real Man not an administrator, and definitely not a yes man.


22 posted on 11/18/2005 11:23:17 AM PST by ExpatGator (Progressivism: A polyp on the colon politic.)
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To: Doomonyou

Thanks to the poster for this most excellent clip!!

Should be rated G for conservatives...XXX for liberals!


23 posted on 11/18/2005 11:23:28 AM PST by oxcart
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To: FreedomFarmer
The Speech, for those of you interested.
24 posted on 11/18/2005 11:25:09 AM PST by FreedomFarmer (This season, slap the Holiday Jeer out of every lib you meet.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Bavaria was the only region of Germany that had its power, water and sewer infrastructure restored within four months of the surrender. He had the lowest starvation death toll, and no looting.

Not bad for a warhorse.

He was prescient about the Russians, and had Ike followed his plan, the frontier of Russia would have started East of Poland somewhere.


25 posted on 11/18/2005 11:35:55 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs
He was prescient about the Russians,...

I considered saying that if Patton was in charge in Iraq, that once he got to Baghdad, he would have then set his sites on Tehran.

26 posted on 11/18/2005 11:42:33 AM PST by Michael.SF. ('That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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To: FreedomFarmer

Love it! Thank you oldbluejacket!


27 posted on 11/18/2005 11:44:02 AM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: FreedomFarmer
I attended Comm School in 1965 at Keesler AFB in Biloxi Miss. My instructor for the subject, "Manholes and Telephone Poles" was a retired Air Force Master Seargeant who had enlisted in 1935. He was a Black sharecropper's son from Louisiana and had enlisted to help out the family by sending home money.

He was high school educated, (his Mom had insisted all her children be book learned!) but the Army recruiter was really excited that this young recruit had mule team experience. So they assigned him to communications school. He didn't have a clue why mules = communications until he learned that the method of laying field wire was a cradle on the back of a mule.

He graduated comm school and was assigned a field unit in Louisiana where he spent several years with the cavalry, chasing this crazing Brigadier by the name of Patton. Patton was refining his tank maneuvering tactics and the comm unit would soon replace those mules with jeeps.

I can assure you that whenever we had breaks we would draw out many war stories from this old soldier! He particularly liked President Truman because in 1948 truman ordered that the military be integrated and that promotions would be fair and equitable.

28 posted on 11/18/2005 11:58:22 AM PST by Young Werther
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To: FreedomFarmer
Excellent.

Patton had a real pair of brass balls and told it like it was. Unfortunately the country has gone very soft from too much liberal media, liberal educators and a few liberal legislators who poison us with politically correct crap.

Kill the bas tards before they kill us.
29 posted on 11/18/2005 11:58:52 AM PST by kevinm13 (The Main Stream Media is dead! Fox News Channel Rocks!)
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To: Michael.SF.

Exactly correct, or Syria.

The problem with Iran is that most of the people can't stand the current government. Not exactly true in Syria. An army can literally pass through Syria like 'crap through a goose' as Patton would say and you really aren't hurting many friendlies.

In Iran, you certainly would. An invasion of Iran would take a tremendous amount of covert work to do successfully and have the right people on your side. Not so with Syria, I would suspect.


30 posted on 11/18/2005 11:59:00 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: FreedomFarmer

OUTSTANDING!!!!!


31 posted on 11/18/2005 12:11:40 PM PST by WmCraven_Wk
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To: FreedomFarmer

To paraphrase Patton -

''I'd rather have Jihadis in front of me than Democrats behind me.''


32 posted on 11/18/2005 12:23:22 PM PST by Lexington Green (''I'd rather have Jihadis in front of me than Democrats behind me.'')
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To: Michael.SF.

See post 25.


33 posted on 11/18/2005 12:28:26 PM PST by txroadkill
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To: FreedomFarmer

bump


34 posted on 11/18/2005 12:33:23 PM PST by VOA
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To: Michael.SF.
I considered saying that if Patton was in charge in Iraq, that once he got to Baghdad, he would have then set his sites on Tehran.

...and we wouldn't have known it until it was a fait accompli...

35 posted on 11/18/2005 12:43:36 PM PST by hschliemann
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To: lormand

My favorite quote: "May God have mercy on my enemies as I won't" & the second best: "God help me, I do love it so. I love it more than my life!"(War)


36 posted on 11/18/2005 12:50:55 PM PST by JackHawk ("Some Times; War is the answer!")
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To: txroadkill

Yes, because he would have kept Saddam's guys in place.


37 posted on 11/18/2005 12:58:07 PM PST by karnage
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To: txroadkill
See post 25.

That was the post I was responding to. He and I were thinking along the same lines.

38 posted on 11/18/2005 1:21:40 PM PST by Michael.SF. ('That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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To: FreedomFarmer

That's great. My youngest son tried to use that last quote in his High School Year Book. They allowed it by printing B_____</p>


39 posted on 11/18/2005 1:28:02 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: FreedomFarmer

This more touching and fun to listen to.

Remember The Generals speech?

General George Patton has a few words to say to those dumb bastards

http://oldbluejacket.com/General_Patton_Message.htm


40 posted on 11/18/2005 6:42:16 PM PST by CHICAGOFARMER (Right to Carry (RTC))
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