Posted on 12/26/2005 7:15:58 PM PST by doug from upland
Patriotism certainly has changed in 60 years.
"This just in: The Times has learned that General Patton's First Army Group, long expected to lead the Allied invasion across the English Channel to Pas-de-Calais, does not exist and may be an elaborate deception. Congressional Democrats aware of this information are promising swift hearings to get to the bottom of this misinformation, which may include paying the media to place false stories aimed at confusing the enemy. Remember for all your late breaking war disinformation, turn to the New York Times."
Aides to Gen. Eisenhower told the Times anonymously that Gen. Eisenhower has no exit strategy, a fatal flaw in Overlord. Some retired military men (one, at least, a marine who won medals in the First World War) suggest that Gen. Eisenhower should call off the invasion because it may lead to terrible losses among the Allied troops.
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General Patton is rumored to have snorted "Montgomery has no exit strategy, either".
There is substantial feeling in the Congress, particularly among some who served valorously with the AEF in the First World War, that the troops should be brought home. FDR is being blamed for many of the losses, along with Winston Churchill.
There's no question that the entry into WW II was done under false pretenses. Japan never threatened the US mainland; Germany never declared war on the US.
The war was about US commercial interests. The League of Nations did not endorse the war. Nor did the Mufti of Jerusalem, Pierre Laval, Father Coughlan or Tokyo Rose. The war was illegitimate and illegal.
Hitler probably wouldn't have believed it anyway. Everybody knows the NYT always lies.
You will appreciate the fact that at least this time I am awake :) Good one, doug!
Just a prediction, but one day, I think some "anonymous source" will gleefully have a field day passing on bogus misinformation to the NYT/Washington Post/LA Times, hopefully putting the final nail in the their coffin of credibility. (And no, it won't be a traitor like Joe Wilson).
You are awake indeed. :)
****OPERATION OVERLORD maims and kills French children.
****Democrat Congressmen say "No Blood for Frog Legs".
****Gold Star Mother demands an end to the war and a second meeting with FDR.
****FBI has been wiretapping Nazi spies in U.S. without a court order.
"Just a prediction, but one day, I think some "anonymous source" will gleefully have a field day passing on bogus misinformation to the NYT/Washington Post/LA Times, hopefully putting the final nail in the their coffin of credibility."
On the eve of the invasion of Sicily, Dwight Eisenhower actually told a roomful of correspondents the particulars of the invasion. He said that he wanted them to have a FEEL for the pressures that he was undergoing with his grave responsibilities to control the release of critical information. The main difference between then and now is the fact that he knew that they were all, to a man, American patriots first and reporters second.
Absolutely. It was a different time. That was evident when newsrooms did not want to display the flag after 9/11.
So true. Bye the way, he made no attempt to sequester them and they had full access to their wire services.
Thanks for the anecdote. I didn't know that. Joe Wilson or James Risen would have had quite an opportunity.
You're welcome. Check out Carlo De'Estes book on Sicily, Can't remember the title though.
bringing this back
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