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I don't think Patton believed he could control the weather. I think he thought God could.
1 posted on 12/26/2010 6:31:09 AM PST by Saije
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To: Saije

Patton was a great General and man of God. The Holy Spirit worked well through him. May we always find open hearts and faithful people willing to serve and obey God.


2 posted on 12/26/2010 6:36:57 AM PST by Broker (Hell is a reality.)
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To: Saije

But the clearing skies and Patton’s progress were both answers to the 101st Airborne’s prayers, hayna? Or no?


4 posted on 12/26/2010 6:38:09 AM PST by flowerplough (Thomas Sowell: Those who look only at Obama's deeds tend to become Obama's critics.)
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To: Saije

Didn’t Eisenhower pray for the weather to cooperate on D-Day?


6 posted on 12/26/2010 6:40:02 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Saije

Amen, what a jerk for a reporter! We need a lot more Pattons and a lot fewer Al Gores today!


7 posted on 12/26/2010 7:05:10 AM PST by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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To: Saije

Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


10 posted on 12/26/2010 7:10:32 AM PST by wita
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To: Saije

A lefty’s take on it,Patton asked GOD for fair weather,True American Warrior RIP Sir.


15 posted on 12/26/2010 7:47:52 AM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Saije
The prayer also makes one question what led Patton to his conviction that he could control the weather?

Earth to reporter: Patton knew he couldn't control the weather which is why he asked for God's help.

16 posted on 12/26/2010 7:51:06 AM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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In today’s military the US needs a lot more leaders like Patton. Instead the US has a bunch of pansiified military leaders that are ballless wonders and have no backbone to so to the president and Congress go to h - e- double hockey sticks and start knocking some doors down to deal with the problems in the world. A pansified military like the gay Thebes military and the gay Spartan military were all wiped out. Military leaders whom are strong pray to God. It is the weak military leader whom relys on himself to think he knows what God thinks that is the problem.

Patton prayed to God and asked if was in his will for the 3rd US Army to be able to have a battle against the forces of evil that Germany represented. Patton also wanted to keep going eastward and wipe out the SOBs in Russia, but Patton died shortly after the war was over in a military vehicle and horse drawn carriage accident (what an irony)


18 posted on 12/26/2010 8:05:48 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: Saije

“The prayer also makes one question what led Patton to his conviction that he could control the weather?”

I think the writer doesn’t understand the whole prayer thing. Patton control the weather? No, he couldn’t, so he asked for divine help.


19 posted on 12/26/2010 8:11:12 AM PST by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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Patton: "I want you to remember...that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country...."
20 posted on 12/26/2010 8:17:15 AM PST by Conservative Tsunami
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but in the last months, as he drove through France's Lorraine region toward the Saar River, progress stalled. Fuel and supplies were running short

Let's be honest here. Fuel and supplies weren't "running short" as if it were some sort of supply problem. Eisenhower put the brakes on Patton's devastating thrust towards Germany in favor of Montgomery's ridiculous Market Garden fiasco. If Patton had gotten all the logistical support he needed, I really believe he might have ended the war by Christmas.

23 posted on 12/26/2010 8:32:32 AM PST by denydenydeny (Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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“Wars aren’t won by dying for your country. ‘’Wars are won by making the other dumb son of a bitch die for his’’.— General George Patton. Lord, do we need soldiers like this.


26 posted on 12/26/2010 9:43:50 AM PST by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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