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The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay
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Posted on 12/25/2012 2:03:49 PM PST by virgil283
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"What exactly is the LeMay Doctrine? .. Kozak: Simply put, a nation should think long and hard before it makes the fateful decision to go to war. But if all other diplomatic means have failed and there is no other alternative, then that nation should use every weapon in its arsenal to win the war as quickly as possible. And heres the kicker: if it isnt willing to do this, then it should not go to war in the first place. Prolonged conflicts help no one and wind up producing more casualties in the end. Think how the United States would have fought its wars differently since WWII
or not at all
if it had used LeMays doctrine...."
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posted on
12/25/2012 2:03:52 PM PST
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virgil283
To: virgil283
To: virgil283
for a fact...the LeMay and Goldwater stories are 1000 percent true as well
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12/25/2012 2:16:15 PM PST
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advertising guy
(and as far as the Cookie Monster, was it really cookies ?)
To: virgil283
To: virgil283
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12/25/2012 2:19:36 PM PST
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Mr. Silverback
(I want a hippopotamus for Christmas! Only a hippopotamus will do!)
To: virgil283
Developer of the Strategic Air Command, Gen. Curtis LeMay, provided many enjoyable (if not apocryphal) quotes, such as at a Senate hearing when asked why, with already enough nuclear bombs to reduce the Soviet Union to cinders, he still wanted more nuclear weapons, LeMay replied, “I want to see the cinders dance.”
To: virgil283
"These [atomic] bombs brought into the world not only their own speed and extent of desolation. They brought a strange pervading fear which does not seem to have affected mankind previously, from any other source. This unmitigated terror has no justice, no basis in fact. Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that night of March 9-10 than went up in vapor at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined." -- Mission with LeMay, Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, Doubleday, 1965, p. 387.
To: DuncanWaring
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12/25/2012 2:29:29 PM PST
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Noumenon
(As long as you have a rifle, you STILL have a vote.)
To: virgil283
I do not wish to have it pointed out to me by some whiz kid at this late stage of the game, that World War II was a colossal mistake , an international misunderstanding for which the United States was proportionately responsible. World War II was nothing of the kind. It was an event wherein the military giants of those several Axis states decided that they could get away with an incredible land grab, a nation grab, a super-Napoleonic defacement of a world-sized map. They did this with the enthusiasm of their nationals behind them. In minor dissension may have sounded the voices of a few ardent patriots and heroic philosophers; but those were not the majority. An horrific chorus shouted, Duce!, or Banzai! or Heil Hitler! Eventually, because of the sacrifices endured by our men and the entire populations of Allied countries, the enemy went down to defeat. Enemy cities were pulverized or fried to a crisp. It was something they asked for and something they got. In reverse fashion, if we keep listening to the gospel of apology and equivocation which all too many politicians and savants are preaching today in the United States, we will be asking for the same thing. And in time, may achieve it. Like witch doctors, defense intellectuals have created jargon which tends to becloud understanding. I submit that military strategy and subsequent national defense policies are understandable if clearly presented. Moreover, the average citizen must be familiar with these subjects, because, through his franchise, he makes the most fundamental and far-reaching defense decisions.
General Curtis LeMay 1965
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12/25/2012 2:30:48 PM PST
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Noumenon
(As long as you have a rifle, you STILL have a vote.)
To: virgil283
Lemay understood good and evil, and acted accordingly.
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12/25/2012 2:31:25 PM PST
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TADSLOS
(I took extra credit at the School of Hard Knocks)
To: virgil283
Read his biography. It was great.
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posted on
12/25/2012 2:34:03 PM PST
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SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: virgil283
favorite target for journalists beginning in the 1960s all American military personnel were also targets of
the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats who were celebrated in the establishment MSM as the most intelligent generation ever!. They are now arguably that very establishment that praised them and they hold themselves and their ideological issue in even higher regard.
As pillars of the Establishment today they can now direct the MSM to attack whomever they please in addition to the American military.. rarely necessary of course because the MSM are also 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats and ideological issue of same.
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12/25/2012 2:34:36 PM PST
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: Carl Vehse
I want to see the cinders dance. I like that...If you are going to war then it is -ALL OUT- every weapon nothing held back....or don't go to war at all...
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12/25/2012 2:35:49 PM PST
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virgil283
( "He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy)
To: virgil283
General Maxwell Taylor had served as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in 1965 he became a special adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson. In that position I believe he pretty much held sway over everything including the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Among them was General Curtis LeMay who IIRC smoked cigars and was reported to make sure that he sat next to Taylor in meetings knowing that Taylor hated tobacco smoke.
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12/25/2012 2:36:53 PM PST
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WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: virgil283
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posted on
12/25/2012 2:48:35 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(When Robbing Peter To Pay Paul,One Can Always Count On Paul's Cooperation)
To: Noumenon; All
" Moreover, the average citizen must be familiar with these subjects, because, through his franchise, he makes the most fundamental and far-reaching defense decisions."
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12/25/2012 2:50:02 PM PST
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knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: virgil283
Thank you for the link a very interesting man..Will check out book..
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12/25/2012 2:57:54 PM PST
by
GSP.FAN
(Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
To: virgil283
LeMay was a tangible threat to the Soviet Union, which had long been very scared of America’s bomber fleet, because from the end of WWII to about the mid-1960s, nuclear missiles were just not good enough, or common enough, to rely on.
So the Soviets told their American traitors to destroy LeMay with character assassination.
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12/25/2012 3:04:32 PM PST
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yefragetuwrabrumuy
(Pennies and Nickels will NO LONGER be Minted as of 1/1/13 - Tim Geithner, US Treasury Sect)
To: knarf
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12/25/2012 3:06:23 PM PST
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txhurl
To: Carl Vehse
***Developer of the Strategic Air Command,***
I remember living in Roswell NM in 1959 and seeing the B-47s taking off one right after another ever few weeks.
When I later was stationed there at Walker AFB the B-52s did not fly quite as often. The ALERT pads were always ready and every SAC base had two aircraft in the air with h-bombs at all times.
After a collision with a KC-135 Tanker, flying the two bombers with H-bombs was stopped.
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12/25/2012 3:07:20 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(REOPEN THE CLOSED MENTAL INSTITUTIONS! Damn the ACLU!)
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