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Churchill didn't have an 'exit strategy'
National Post ^
| 2006-09-09
| Father Raymond J. de Souza
Posted on 09/09/2006 5:00:04 PM PDT by Clive
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posted on
09/09/2006 5:00:06 PM PDT
by
Clive
To: Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Cannoneer No. 4; ...
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posted on
09/09/2006 5:00:23 PM PDT
by
Clive
To: Clive
Sure he did, it was victory.
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posted on
09/09/2006 5:01:09 PM PDT
by
Vision
(God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2Timothy1)
To: Clive
Exactly. We did not start this war the Islamo Facist did. So there cannot be an exit strategy until we win.
To: Vision
Eeeeeeeeeexxxxxxxxxaaaaaaaaaccccccccttttttllllllllyyyyyy!
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posted on
09/09/2006 5:02:41 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking it's heritage.)
To: Clive
This is going to be a special Anniversary. I can feel it in the air.
To: Vision
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posted on
09/09/2006 5:04:42 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
("...at all costs...in spite of all terror...however long and hard the road may be...")
To: Vision
note the quotation marks in the title
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posted on
09/09/2006 5:09:46 PM PDT
by
Murtyo
To: Clive
Exit strategy? To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, "Here's my exit strategy: We win, they lose."
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posted on
09/09/2006 5:13:18 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(A pirate's life for me.)
To: Clive; GMMAC; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; Ryle; ...
Canada ping.
Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.
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posted on
09/09/2006 5:21:02 PM PDT
by
fanfan
(Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.)
To: Vision; All
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posted on
09/09/2006 5:30:52 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
To: Clive
He didn't need one: It was either Do or DIE.
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posted on
09/09/2006 5:31:46 PM PDT
by
AZRepublican
("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
To: mdittmar
LOL that is the best kind of exit strategy, next to kill them all and let God sort out the mess.
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posted on
09/09/2006 5:33:03 PM PDT
by
AZRepublican
("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
To: Clive
"Chambers' freight train of history went airborne five years ago Monday"
LOL
The metaphor isn't tortured, but it is a form of abuse.
I am reminded of the American governments pressuring MLW Worthington Studebaker (yes, that Studebaker) to force MLW's Canadian subsidiary to terminate the planned sale of diesel locomotives to Castro's Cuba. Canadians were upset at this exercise of extranational power by the US.
The question was what the US had to fear from Cuban locomotives. That question conjured up mental images of a Cuban rail borne invasion of the US, with wailing diesel engines roaring up onto the beaches of Miami.
If freight trains can fly, pace the article, then surely they can float.
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posted on
09/09/2006 5:37:05 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: Clive; fanfan
The title alone says it all - can one imagine what it would have been like during WWII if there were liberal asses running around (I know there were some anti-war leftists, but far fewer than today).
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posted on
09/09/2006 5:37:31 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: Vision
Right.. Is that why he said
"We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." That sounds like a retreat to me. He is proposing to fight until England loses. That is not an exit strategy unless you consider defeat an exit strategy. If victory was Churchills strategy he would have said. "We shall invade France and Belgium. We shall take Paris, then advance to the Rhine, and in the final battle we shall destroy Berlin."
But that isn't what he said. Is it....
You need to improve your vision .. even your hindsight is not very good.
To: Clive
True, but he was prepared to fight on his own turf.
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posted on
09/09/2006 6:15:37 PM PDT
by
dr_who_2
To: Common Tator
Right.. Is that why he said "We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." That sounds like a retreat to me. He is proposing to fight until England loses. That is not an exit strategy unless you consider defeat an exit strategy.
This is not a personal attack. You're an idiot. Good Luck!
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posted on
09/09/2006 6:23:27 PM PDT
by
Vision
(God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2Timothy1)
To: My2Cents
Ditto.
"Here's my exit strategy:
We win, they lose."
,
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posted on
09/09/2006 6:26:46 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Vision
He may not be an idiot ... more likely, he has not lived long enough to experience the reality of war and an enemy that has sworn to destroy your civilization by making you all convert to Islam.
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posted on
09/09/2006 6:28:43 PM PDT
by
rollin
(q)
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