[Vigilanteman]

My father always claimed that genuine military heroes like Patton and MacArthur had to be neutralized because they would prove too much of an embarrassment to political generals like George Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower and their sponsors.

[SeekAndFind]

I hate to be the spoiler, but since O’Reilley keeps talking about it ( I just heard his interview at the Imus in the Morning drive time radio program ), this is what it is in a nutshell:

Patton was assassinated by Stalin’s minions because he was very close to convincing the powers that be to invade the USSR after the AXIS powers were defeated.

His death ended all that.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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I'm familiar with the allegations.

However, Bill O'Reilly is simply trying to "sell anything" to a specific (still with money) demographic age group ...

1) Americans
2) Men
3) WWII vets
4) Retired, with NOTHING to do ...


Actually, it's shameless ...


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[Sherman Logan]

The problem with this theory is that Patton was not particularly popular in America and posed no threat to the establishment. Certainly much less so than MacArthur did during the Korean War.

IOW, I just don’t see any reason why Patton was important enough to justify killing him. He could be fired or “promoted” to a meaningless job in the Pentagon with zero political repercussions.

[joethedrummer]

Bush and Cheney did it.

[surrey]

My husband is reading this right now and thoroughly enjoying it. He didn’t know a whole lot about Patton and he’s impressed. As far as O’Reilly’s other books, eh not a big fan.

[longfellow]

Read a lot on Patton. But O’Reilly still thinks Kennedy was assassinated by Oswald.

[Gay State Conservative]

I’d have no problem believing credible evidence suggesting that Stalin killed Patton.