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To: Libloather
Well, he's no Patton.

General George S. Patton, Jr., in characteristic unexpurgated detail, gives his troops a final pep-talk prior to the invasion of Normandy, Enniskillen Manor Grounds, England, May 17, 1944.

We want to get this thing over and get the hell out of here, and get at those purple-pissin' Japs!!! The shortest road home is through Berlin and Tokyo! We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by showing the enemy we have more guts than they have or ever will have! There's one great thing you men can say when it's all over and you're home once more. You can thank God that twenty years from now, when you're sitting around the fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the war, you won't have to shift him to the other knee, cough, and say, "I shoveled shit in Louisiana."
43 posted on 03/14/2003 7:29:52 PM PST by John Lenin
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To: John Lenin
Expect Sodomy to lob scuds at Israel and bio/chem warheads at our boys stuck waiting on the French to set them all up, at the same time.

Given his track record and his current hopeless position, why would he do anything else?

Let the blood lie at the feet of the socialists of the world, including past presidents and their cohorts of tyranny.

To America I say learn thee thy lesson in your follies at the ballot box.

Viva la Pre-Emption!
46 posted on 03/14/2003 7:35:07 PM PST by ALS
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To: John Lenin
You left out the important part. Here it is:

"We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple-pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too — before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit."

In the Marine Corps we call that praise from high places.

57 posted on 03/14/2003 8:16:29 PM PST by Bedford Forrest (Roger, Contact, Judy, Out. Fox One. Splash one.)
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To: John Lenin
Fight like you're trained, follow procedures and you'll get through this fine." sigh....nope, not a General Patton...
72 posted on 03/14/2003 9:45:30 PM PST by Libertina (God Bless our Commander In Chief!)
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