Posted on 08/18/2017 12:42:44 PM PDT by 11th_VA
"These Juramentado attacks were materially reduced in number by a practice that the Mohamedans held in abhorrence. The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave with a dead pig. It was not pleasant to have to take such measures, but the prospect of going to hell instead of heaven sometimes deterred the would-be assassins."
These were the words of General Pershing in his autobiography. According to the New York Times (despite having reported on it at the time) it's a myth. The Washington Post agrees. They both cite fact checks by Politifact and Snopes. The problem with all the fact checks is... the facts.
The media has avoided the problem by consulting "experts" who tell them exactly what they want to hear. And what they want to hear is that it never happened. But not only was it written up in the New York Times, the Scientific American, a number of other publications, and mentioned by a number of other military officers, General Pershing had written about it.
General Pershing fell ill and died while working on his unpublished autobiography. The materials remained at the Library of Congress Manuscripts Division. Some contain his handwritten notes. They can be examined by the public.
John T. Greenwood, who assembled, edited and published the manuscript, was the former chief of the Office of Medical History, Office of the Surgeon General, US Army. He is also the author of a number of other military history books.
The book was positively reviewed as a military studies text. It was published by the University of Kentucky Press. At no point in time, until this issue came up, did anyone question its legitimacy: ...
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Methinks Trump is going to ‘beat the press’ with this book on Monday ... (snicker ....)
Sad but brilliant quotation from Mr. Blair.
Wow! Once again, President Trump is right and the idiot media is wrong. I’m still not tired of winning.
bkmk
Waste of good pork. Just dump in the entrails and feces. Works the same.
Orwell was a seer, I never thought I would live to see this.
Trump mentioned the pig fat on bullets. This article doesn’t address that claim.
CNN is hiring.
Pershing bump for later....
But "Shemp" Smith, the homosexual talking head on FOX News, declared that this fact has been proven false.
It's a shame that such an honored military general lied about it in his own biography, isn't it?
Too bad Shemp wasn't there to help him get the facts of his own life straight.
Here's the actual quote: "Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!"
Nothing in there about bullets.
So this might be legendary, like George Washington chopping down a cherry tree and Honest Abe walking five miles to return a book.
Ja vell. So gates.
(O well, so it goes)
King of the Khyber Rifles: pig grease.
Trump also has access to the Pentagon which has the general staff and field reports.
I didn’t think he said anything about bullets - the media said that’s what he was eluding to - did he set them up for another can of whipass?
Kind of hard on the pig, too.
According to the New York Times (despite having reported on it at the time) it's a myth. The Washington Post agrees.
I think what they're calling a myth is the 50 bullets dipped in pigs blood, 49 Muslims shot with them, and the 50th sent back as a warning story.
He didn't say anything about bullets, only that we should study what Pershing did. The media may have assumed that's what he meant.
You are correct. CNN and others are conflating the tweet with comments during a pre-election campaign rally.
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