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The Mysterious Death of George Patton
Fox News ^ | 4/27/06 | Oliver North

Posted on 04/27/2006 6:26:15 PM PDT by spanalot

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Many Intel sources have long held that Stalin tried to assassinate Patton more than once.

http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1996/409612.shtml

1 posted on 04/27/2006 6:26:17 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: spanalot

I thought Elvis did it.


2 posted on 04/27/2006 6:27:49 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: spanalot

"Brass Target".


3 posted on 04/27/2006 6:27:56 PM PDT by Publius
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To: festus

If there is anyway the dems can blame this on Bush, they will.


4 posted on 04/27/2006 6:31:21 PM PDT by SAMS (Nobody loves a soldier until the enemy is at the gate; Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: spanalot

Interesting - there was also an old rumor out there that the German insurgency got to him.


5 posted on 04/27/2006 6:33:20 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Tailgunner Joe; lizol; Mazepa; Stellar Dendrite

ping


6 posted on 04/27/2006 6:33:32 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: SAMS

Maybe Prescott Bush.


7 posted on 04/27/2006 6:33:53 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Chi-townChief

"Interesting - there was also an old rumor out there that the German insurgency got to him."

A common Russin ploy - blame it on the fascists.


8 posted on 04/27/2006 6:34:39 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: Publius

Go to the video tape.


9 posted on 04/27/2006 6:34:53 PM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: SAMS

Well what with the Bush's being closet Nazis during WWII it shouldn't be hard

/end mindless liberal drivel logic simulation


10 posted on 04/27/2006 6:35:35 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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Don't think there was necessarily a plot but . . .

. . . it is an interesting "what if" to consider the post war world had Patton not died in 1945.
11 posted on 04/27/2006 6:36:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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This just in from DU. Prescott Bush colluded in the assasination of Patton in retaliation for the defeat of his friends the Nazis. After all, dems have alleged Bush 41's father was a nazi sympathizer ever since he first ran for president in 1980
12 posted on 04/27/2006 6:37:14 PM PDT by Guard Dog (Beware of the Dog)
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To: BenLurkin

In his "Future Histories", science fiction writer Robert Heinlein had Patton serving two terms as president in the 1950's.


13 posted on 04/27/2006 6:38:04 PM PDT by Publius
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To: BenLurkin

"In another brush with destiny, Mr. Skubik was informed by the Ukrainian underground of a Soviet assassination plot against Gen. George Patton. After his reports on the plot were dismissed, Gen. Patton was killed in an accident involving his staff car and a military truck. Although part of Gen. Patton's security detail, Mr. Skubik was refused permission to investigate the crash. Mr. Skubik's Ukrainian underground contact, Stepan Bandera, was himself assassinated by the KGB in 1959."


14 posted on 04/27/2006 6:40:53 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: BenLurkin

Truman would have "relieved" him just as he did Macarthur.


15 posted on 04/27/2006 6:41:20 PM PDT by gdzla
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To: festus

Ya got it wrong..it wud W.


16 posted on 04/27/2006 6:49:10 PM PDT by x1stcav (Illegals go home! I'll mow the damned lawn myself!)
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To: spanalot

Conspiracy? Or sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar (Freud).

Patton hated the Russians far more than he hated Germans, and perhaps dreamed of rearming and unleashing the latter against the USSR. Many in America also wanted us to stand back and just let the Nazis and Communists claw each other to death.

The sedan was not smashed to bits (photo). Restored, it reposes in the Patton Museum. I looked underneath it in 1977 and saw that the frame was bent, but nothing more. Gen. Patton was not only the only fatality, but the only one in the car even injured. A very finely tuned assassination, yes? The German Insurgency would have used some kind of what's now called an IED.

Eisenhower relieved Patton not because he was a loose cannon, but because of his public remarks, thought injurious to the Four Power alliance (which the Soviets abrogated anyway).

Gen Patton was a near-perfect, aggressive battlefield commander. That doesn't translate well to any other walk of life. Lost accident report? Welcome to the bureaucracy, circa 1945.

Let him rest in peace, in his soldier's grave.


17 posted on 04/27/2006 6:50:43 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: spanalot

Regardless of the manner of his demise, he was an amazing man, the consumate War General and an American Hero of the first order. My favorite photo of him is the one of him pissing in the Rhine. I am glad he was not infected by the political bug, as he was better for it.

Hand salute, ready two!


18 posted on 04/27/2006 6:51:16 PM PDT by ExpatGator (Progressivism: A polyp on the colon politic.)
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To: spanalot

I thought it was a plot. Patton's driver was a former Arab taxi driver and if one has ever ridden in a car with an Arabic driver one would understand the danger.


19 posted on 04/27/2006 6:55:02 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: spanalot

I did it with my Time Machine. I wanted George C. Scott to be able to portray Patton as he was when he was still in his prime. I killed JFK, too, but the Cigarette Smoking Man kept taking the credit.


20 posted on 04/27/2006 6:58:14 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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