Posted on 11/12/2009 11:22:09 AM PST by Sasparilla
The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." General S. George Patton.
The words of George S.Patton to his men are as meaningful this week as we celebrate our veterans service as they were meaningful in June, 1944, on the eve of D day.
Obama says "I'm always worried about using the word "Victory," because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur."
But not General Patton.
Here are the words of the General...Somewhere in England, June 5th, 1944...
"Be seated."
Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle...
Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.
You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men. Yes, every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are.
The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their....
(Excerpt) Read more at secondamendmentfreedom.blogspot.com ...
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.” Gen. Geo. S. Patton
I remember reading somewhere that the "wastage rate", ie. the number of daily losses, experienced during WW2 was something like 2 percent per day. That meant that when the Army was not heavily engaged and the only activity going on was maintenance of the lines and patrolling -- you'd still lose 2 percent of your manpower each day. Sobering.
Gen. Patton might have been correct about only 2 percent of the men present dying in "a major battle", but that certainly wasn't the whole story.
For later.
Compare George Patton to the paper-pushing, politically correct Generals we have today such as Wesley Clark and Casey, who are more concerned with “diversity” than defeating the enemy.
Sure didn't teach him much at them expensive colleges, did they? Hirohito seldom appeared in public prior to the war's end. Furthermore, most Japanese had never even heard his voice before he was broadcast announcing the surrender. He was miles away from the surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri.
I believe my dad was in England on this day looking for his brother Pete. I have several British newspapers from the week before D-Day.
BO doesn’t understand that you can’t a war by being nice in war. Your nice after you’ve won the war.
There would be no place in today’s military for a George Patton, a Bull Halsey, or a Chesty Puller. One needs to be a politically correct perfumed prince to reach flag rank today.
We don’t want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men.
When I want to get their attention I give it to them loud and I give it to them dirty.
See Patton’s entire speech to his men at
http://secondamendmentfreedom.blogspot.com/2009/11/george-s-patton-somewhere-in-england.html
Yep. I read through the whole thing. I like to read that speech sometimes.
I would take one George S. Patton over a brigade of Wesley Clarks. Such spineless, weaselly, treacherous, back-stabbing, self-promoting little pricks as he dishonor both the military and their country. I wouldn't trust him to guard a latrine much less lead men into battle.
I have this Patton saying the top of my computer it reads, “it is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived. General George Patton.
The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.” General S. George Patton.
Actually it was George Scott playing Patton who said that. There is no evidence the real Patton said it.
Close enough...Patton would have wished he had said it.
agreed!
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