[StoneColdGOP]

Bump for General Patton.

Anyone else read this book or any other mentioned here?

[Paulus Invictus]

I own and have read all the Patton books except this one. Patton was a true WW II hero, in spite of his blemishes. The Commies at the State Dept. hated him for his anti- Soviet views and I am certain that they got him down-graded. Mc Carthy was right-- Several influential State Dept. head men were later shown to have been Commies and they transmitted state secrets all the time to the USSR. One of them was always at FDR's elbow and knew all the secrets. The State Dept still appears to be far left in their attitudes.

[El Gran Salseron]

I haven't read this book. However, I have long been an admirer of General Patton. I remember in the early 50s just at the birth of the cold war, as a child, my dad raving such as General Patton might do, about how, "PATTON TRIED TO TELL THEM BUT THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN!".....etc, etc, etc.

It's just a shame that there aren't any more like him.....kick A$$, don't bother to take names and tell the truth.

That attitude of "Hold him by the "cojones" and kick him in the A$$!"

"Grease the tracks of our tanks with his guts."

We need him again in Iraq.....right now!

To HE!! with the politicians and "negotiating."
General, where are you?

[an amused spectator]

Victor Davis Hanson bump.

Anyone else read this book or any other mentioned here?

No, but I've got a really thick Patton bio that I've been meaning to crack into for ages.

Geez, Stone - this forum is getting way too big. I knew you were gone for a while, but didn't know you were back around, because I haven't seen your name in the longest time!

Good to see you.

[VOA]

Most Americans know more about his two slapping incidents in Sicily than his
famous sprint to Bastogne during the dark days of the Battle of the Bulge.

"Americans" should be replaced by "whiney liberal leftist socialist-Democrats".

[Missouri]

"Give me 10 days and I'll have a war with those son's of bitches, and make it look like their fault!"

[CrazyIvan]

"There is no lower form of human than the politician, and the lowest of these is the liberal Democrat." George S. Patton

[darth]

Heard this story at West Point when I was a cadet. During Black Jack Pershing's expedition against Pancho Villa a truck rolled up to Pershing's HQ with two dead bandidos tied over the fenders like a couple of trophy deer. Who was the proud lieutenant driving the truck? You guessed it...George.

[Siamese Princess]

My late father served under Gen. Patton and thought highly of him -- he never missed the movie Patton when it was on TV. He despised Gen. Eisenhower and said that he was George Marshall's boy. As for Gen. Patton's "bigotry," there's no doubt that he was very un-PC -- but that doesn't mean that he wasn't right at least some of the time.

[stanley windrush]

Read "War As I Knew It" years ago. I remember some of his statements were bigoted...but he was a man of his times. He was respectful mostly of talent and guts (no doubt about that) and he didn't care about the race or creed factor regarding integrity. He made an interesting remark about the Muslims of north Africa. Not verbatim mind you but something like this: "They treat their women worse than their mules (after witnessing a poor pack creature with open sores on it's back being beaten by it's master). What they need is a Christian.....on the proper treatment of women and animals... I wish I had the book with me to quote it verbatim. It is arrogant and elitist but truthful about the Muslim custom of having women as their chattel. He was a gruff, garrelous tough old bastard all right. Great book.