To: GOPsterinMA; Impy; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; Gilbo_3; NFHale
I forgot to mention that after Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered the war with Japan was still on and most were expecting to have to invade the main islands.So many troops were being sent to the Pacific.
I remember a scene in McArthur where he told the Soviet military leader that if the USSR tried any of that funny business in Japan that they did in Europe that he would arrest their whole USSR diplomatic staff. Eventually Truman fired him over Korea.
Patton and McArthur both wondered why we fought in WWII just to let communists pick up the spoils, but as Republicans learned the hard way (OK maybe just a few did), you need the voters’s support in wars to win.
58 posted on
06/02/2012 8:19:26 PM PDT by
sickoflibs
(Romney is a liberal. Just watch him closely try to screw us.)
To: sickoflibs; Impy; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; Gilbo_3; NFHale
“Patton and McArthur both wondered why we fought in WWII just to let communists pick up the spoils, but as Republicans learned the hard way (OK maybe just a few did), you need the voters’s support in wars to win.”
Yep.
59 posted on
06/02/2012 8:43:42 PM PDT by
GOPsterinMA
(We may die, but DISCO LIVES FOREVER!!!)
To: sickoflibs; GOPsterinMA; Impy; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; Gilbo_3; NFHale
” as Republicans learned the hard way (OK maybe just a few did), you need the voters’s support in wars to win. “
As we learned in Viet Nam.
65 posted on
06/04/2012 9:48:07 AM PDT by
stephenjohnbanker
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