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2004-10-12 Fifth Column

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Posted by Doc8404 2004-10-12 12:24:26 PM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Beautiful!

And unfortunately all too true.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-12 3:36:22 PM|| 2004-10-12 3:36:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 You have to love Zell Miller. He is a no bullshit Marine.

Posted by A. Bungfodder 2004-10-12 4:08:13 PM|| 2004-10-12 4:08:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 This is so absolutely accurate. The same parody could be done for the months after D-Day (it was partially done by the master Victor Davis Hanson). The press are idiots who care not a whit about long term perspective. They need to be muzzled in times of war.

Posted by remote man 2004-10-12 4:51:27 PM|| 2004-10-12 4:51:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Eleanor Roosevelt really did have problems with flame-throwers and naplam and being just plain mean and brought it to the press on occasion.

BLOOD FOR ELEANOR!

Posted by Shipman 2004-10-12 5:39:00 PM|| 2004-10-12 5:39:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I had these same thoughts the other night watching a History Channel show on the Aleutians campaign in WWII. It was an absolute clusterfuck, with troops shipped in for the assault straight from North Africa-- no winter gear at all, no time to acclimate-- and it occurred to me: One battle. As many casualties in one attack as we've had in a year and a half in Iraq. A total balls-up, yet no criticism from the press.

Miller could have written the same parody, with the same effect, about any of hundreds of other WWII battles.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-12 6:49:31 PM|| 2004-10-12 6:49:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't forget the hopeless quagmire America was heading for in the Battle of the Bulge...

Posted by True German Ally 2004-10-12 11:10:51 PM|| 2004-10-12 11:10:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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