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Valkyrie: They Dared To Stop It
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| 1/8/2009
| Assemblyman Chuck DeVore
Posted on 01/08/2009 1:23:25 AM PST by GVnana
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Chuck DeVore is a California State Assemblyman and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010. He retired from the Army National Guard at the rank of lieutenant colonel and served as a Reagan White House appointee in the Pentagon. He co-authored the novel China Attacks.
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posted on
01/08/2009 1:23:25 AM PST
by
GVnana
To: GVnana
Some films need to be made. Nope - there is no such film....
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posted on
01/08/2009 1:25:33 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
01/08/2009 1:27:01 AM PST
by
GVnana
("I once dressed as Tina Fey for Halloween." - Sarah Palin)
To: GVnana
Valkyrie is a good movie. So many attempts were made to stop hitler - and tens of thousands lost lives. Cruise played his part well - the focused & dedicated leader willing to risk all for doing something right.
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posted on
01/08/2009 1:53:05 AM PST
by
x_plus_one
(Muhammed and Allah = 2 memes destined for the ashheap of history.....)
To: x_plus_one
Actually, I think it was best that Hitler lived. He was so screwed up and surrounded by such sycophants that he was an assistance to Allied victory.
With Hitler gone, the German high command would of been some what more militarily rationalized and more efficient.
I don't think by the late date of the attempt, we would of made a deal with the Nazis.
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posted on
01/08/2009 2:11:30 AM PST
by
Leisler
(It is always said it is for the children. (Not your children..others...somewhere))
To: Leisler
With Hitler gone, the German high command would of been some what more militarily rationalized and more efficient.
I wonder if the surrender would have happened sooner with Hitler gone. We can only speculate.
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posted on
01/08/2009 2:29:37 AM PST
by
carumba
(The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho)
To: carumba
They wanted to have an conditional armistice and continue fighting the Russians.
Never going to be accepted, and they would not of accepted an unconditional surrender.
The die was cast.
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posted on
01/08/2009 2:51:32 AM PST
by
Leisler
(It is always said it is for the children. (Not your children..others...somewhere))
To: GVnana
Deserving subject matter. Hideous casting in the lead role. If Tom Cruise were any more one dimensional, he’d go *poof* and disappear into thin air.
To: Leisler
“With Hitler gone, the German high command would of been some what more militarily rationalized and more efficient.”
At that late stage of the war, Germany was losing badly. Perhaps these men could have surrendered sooner and stopped the “scorched Earth” policy that Hitler had put into place and hundreds of thousands of more people did not have to die.
We’ll never know.
To: Londo Molari
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posted on
01/08/2009 3:44:45 AM PST
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: Rummyfan
Ah, cmon “Ernest Saves Christmas” WAS needed.
To: GVnana
I don’t know much about him and he may be a terrific man. But, he writes the way Hank Kimble, County Agent (from Green Acres) speaks. The man needs an editor.
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posted on
01/08/2009 4:48:32 AM PST
by
hometoroost
(Put not your trust in princes...in whom there is no help...happy is he whose hope is in the Lord.)
To: raybbr
he’s all that and a box of popcorn...duuuuh...
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posted on
01/08/2009 4:49:23 AM PST
by
stefanbatory
(Do you want a President or a King?)
To: stefanbatory
hes all that and a box of popcorn...duuuuh...Huh?
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posted on
01/08/2009 4:50:42 AM PST
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: raybbr
there was an episode where Garibaldi was attempting to explain to Vir the meaning of some Earth slang...among the terms was “all that and a bag of chips” (think back to the deep dark 90’s...you’ll recall that fad) Vir kept getting it wrong in his attempts to use it in conversation, though...one example of which was “all that and a box of popcorn...”
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posted on
01/08/2009 4:57:05 AM PST
by
stefanbatory
(Do you want a President or a King?)
To: GVnana
This is a good movie. After discussing it with some people at work, we all were wondering why we weren’t taught in our History classes that there WERE people who tried to overthrow Hitler. Anyone?
To: Londo Molari
"late stage"
Until the end of the war, Hitler kept the extermination camps open transporting Jews and other victims to them. Hitler was always the most fanatical Jew-hater of all the Nazis. With his death, even if the generals had fought on, most likely they would have ended the death camps as a needless waste of manpower and materiel. Hitler's assassination would have meant a better end to the war.
To: RegulatorCountry
One of the reviews I read said, “Cruise was so bad it was distracting.”
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:49:51 AM PST
by
CholeraJoe
(Don't it make you want to rock 'n roll all night long? Mohammed's radio.)
To: originalbuckeye
The German MSM kept it under wraps. /sarc off
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:50:20 AM PST
by
IrishPennant
(Patriotism is strongest when accompanied by bad politics, loyal FRiends and great whiskey)
To: originalbuckeye
Don’t know about you, but my history class got everything from the Great Depression onward squeezed into the week before finals. We didn’t have time to learn that.
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posted on
01/08/2009 5:50:53 AM PST
by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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