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To: Mozilla

TRoops and jets against Chias and Pets.

Sounds entertaining.


7 posted on 04/02/2013 2:57:15 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: Hardraade

Does nobody remember the Chosen Reservoir or the rout of the UN during one of the bitterest cold winters the Korean Peninsula had seen in decades?

The Battle of the Bulge was a cake walk in comparison, and we won that one. More like Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow.

At about the same time, General MacArthur proposed setting up an atomic perimeter at the Yalu River, which as it was crossed by the Chines troops, would inflict a fatal dose of radiation poisoning, causing them to falter and die as they reached the battlefields. This so enraged Harry Truman that he went on the national media and very publicly fired MacArthur on the spot.

Harry Truman had a history of a very troubled relationship with the US military, as he was gutting out the military capability of the US at the very time the Soviet threat was growing like an angry cancer. This confrontation with MacArthur just put it over the top, but Harry always claimed it was to preserve the civilian control of the military establishment.

We also had just lost China a couple of years earlier. It did not look good for the future of America.

America fell weeping into the arms of the gentle ministrations of Eisenhower.


17 posted on 04/02/2013 4:12:12 AM PDT by alloysteel (Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.)
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