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WW2 veteran on overhearing "You can't bomb an Ideology"
July 24, 2016

Posted on 07/24/2016 5:21:45 PM PDT by NKP_Vet

Quote from a WWII veteran overhearing someone say that `You can't bomb an ideology."

"The hell you can't. Because we did it. These Muslims are no different than the Imperial Japanese. The Japs had their suicide bombers too. And we stopped them. What it takes is the resolve and will to use a level of brutality and violence that your generations can't stomach. And until you can, this shit won't stop. It took us on the beaches with bullets, clearing out caves with flame throwers, and men like LeMay burning down their cities killing people by the tens of thousands. And then it took 2 atom bombs on top of it. But if that was what it took to win we were willing to do it. Until you are willing to do the same...well I hope you enjoy this shit, because it ain't going to stop."


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To: disndat
Whatever. It is what you think.

Stop pinging me. Go away. I have nothing to say to you.

Get a life and stop being O/C.

41 posted on 07/24/2016 6:15:49 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Oh, I can stomach it.


42 posted on 07/24/2016 6:20:58 PM PDT by Mjreagan
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To: Snickering Hound

The 29 raids killed entire population centers with single fire raids.It certainly had the desired effect on the civilians engaged in the war effort.The nukes had the desired effect on the political and military leadership.


43 posted on 07/24/2016 6:26:20 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Who said
‘BOMBOMBOMB BOMBOMBIRAN”?


44 posted on 07/24/2016 6:26:37 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
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To: Bobalu

The General was a no nonsense commander and was also in the ETO flying a B17 named red gremlin.He practiced what he preached.


45 posted on 07/24/2016 6:29:02 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: volunbeer

Do we nuke ye, no. That may be in our future depends on what islamonazi’s do. But this PC war we have been fighting is a losing strategy. We need discredit Islam as a religion which will require an end to PC. We may also have to destroy a continent and kill millions of people whether they are Johnny jihads or not to let them know they don’t want any part of us.

We are not to the point of doing any of this. It will take a wmd event on US soil before we are willing to kill Islam on a continent wide scale. We didn’t start it but we damned well better finish it if you don’t want your children sold as slaves in the death cult calling Islam.


46 posted on 07/24/2016 6:32:48 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: Iron head mike; Travis McGee

That reminds me of an old Travis McGee ditty:

We’re going to find out,

Sooner or later,

If Abdul will pray,

To a smoking crater.


47 posted on 07/24/2016 6:33:03 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: NKP_Vet

The vet is right.

The only thing Muslims have respected in the last 1400 years is superior and overwhelming force.

Put them back in their sandbox and make them behave.

As for the Saudis, we made them and we can break them.


48 posted on 07/24/2016 6:33:38 PM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: wastoute

Isn’t that what the British did with the Thuggees in India?


49 posted on 07/24/2016 6:37:12 PM PDT by PTBAA
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To: Iron head mike

I do not advocate this at all. My post is more a warning of where ongoing terrorism could lead if they go “too far” (whatever that means with the delicate sissies now in power in most western countries, but imagine that a man like Putin gets angry and decides to end this problem) . . .

If a country like Russia, with lots of nukes, targets the 50 Muslim majority countries, and in each of them bombs significant cities with over 98% Muslim populations, they can make a big dent. Indonesia has 204 million Muslims, Pakistan 178 million, India 177 million, Bangladesh 149 million, Egypt 80 million, Nigeria 76 million, Iran 75 million, Turkey 75 million, Algeria 34 million, and Morocco 32 million. That’s just under 1.1 billion Muslims in ten countries alone. Throw in a few more countries, and radical Islam could be made into a footnote. The number of Muslims left worldwide would barely exceed the number of Jews, except that the Jews have a work ethic, values, accomplishments, and education. The surviving Muslims would have only the anger that too many of them already nurse.

Putin would also have huge international issues, which would harm Russia far more than their recent land grab. Still, particularly if he had a terminal medical condition and a personal reason to be angry, Putin might decide it was worth it to wipe out the problem and then take the blame personally. Russia could hold a fair trial, convict Putin, execute him, and apologize. And the overwhelming majority of terrorists would still be dead. I’d rather see moral/ethical Islamic leaders stand up for civilized behavior, even from their own followers, and bring an internal end to radical Islam. However, a violent western backlash could also bring Islamic terrorism to an ugly end.


50 posted on 07/24/2016 6:40:43 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: sarge83

I don’t disagree, but I pray it does not come to that. If they can consolidate power in a country or two over there they will attack Israel again (it’s what they do - can’t help it) and hopefully get the snot kicked out of them again, but the rise of Islamist Turkey is going to be a game changer in the world war against radical Islam.

There won’t be peace any time soon no matter what we do. Just had a suicide bomber that appears to have prematurely detonated before he could walk into a concert with 2000 people in Germany. We have imported this and will suffer the consequences - its hard to blame other nations when your “own citizens” are doing this.


51 posted on 07/24/2016 6:40:51 PM PDT by volunbeer (Clinton Cash = Proof of Corruption)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

“If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I’m going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground.” ~ General Curtis LeMay, 1957


52 posted on 07/24/2016 6:41:19 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: Bobalu

I recall hearing a story of General LeMay at a Senate hearing when asked why, with already enough nuclear weapons to reduce the Soviet Union to cinders, he still wanted more nuclear weapons, LeMay replied, “I want to see the cinders dance.”


53 posted on 07/24/2016 6:46:23 PM PDT by The Chid
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To: NKP_Vet

“The knife that killed Mike was put in that Jap’s hands when he was nine years old.” - Cary Grant: Destination Tokyo


54 posted on 07/24/2016 6:46:51 PM PDT by MGG
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To: NKP_Vet

The Muzzy’s will Lie:

I ran outta Gas,
I had flat TIRE,
I didn’t have cab fair,
MY Tuxedo didn’t come back
From the cleaners,
And old friend came in from outta town,
Someone stole My car,
There was an earthquake,
A terrible Flood,
LOCUSTS !

IT WASN’T MY FAULT!


55 posted on 07/24/2016 6:51:29 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: NKP_Vet

The Muzzy’s will Lie:

I ran outta Gas,
I had flat TIRE,
I didn’t have cab fair,
MY Tuxedo didn’t come back
From the cleaners,
And old friend came in from outta town,
Someone stole My car,
There was an earthquake,
A terrible Flood,
LOCUSTS !

IT WASN’T MY FAULT!


56 posted on 07/24/2016 6:51:44 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: NKP_Vet

The only thing we fear now from the Japanese, is our kids getting run over in the street chasing Pokemons.


57 posted on 07/24/2016 6:57:43 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: Big Red Badger

Sorry for the double,
It wasn’t my Fault,
I SWEAR It!


58 posted on 07/24/2016 6:58:27 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: NKP_Vet

...and then sometimes you don’t have to drop a single bomb, i.e. what’s left of Judeo-Christian “ideology” in the Western World.


59 posted on 07/24/2016 6:58:35 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Gamecock

These days, with technology, couldn’t the corrupt and evil terrorist leadership be targeted selectively? That was not generally possible in WWII, other than perhaps in the case of the failed plot to off Hitler.


60 posted on 07/24/2016 7:05:38 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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