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THE NORMANDY QUAGMIRE
The Daley Times-Post ^ | 06/02/04 | Edward L. Daley

Posted on 06/02/2004 10:29:02 AM PDT by Edward_Daley

By I. N. Tanswer - June 9, 1944

Tuesday's invasion of the European continent by primarily American and British forces may go down in history as the biggest military blunder of all time. The presumptuousness of the invasion's name alone, "Operation Overlord", should have been our first clue as to the state of mind of the people who concocted this foolhardy and now obviously disastrous scheme. As the number of casualties continues to rise, with estimates approaching 50,000 dead and 240,000 wounded, many patriotic Americans are forced to ask if Mr. Roosevelt's preemptive war against the people of Germany has been worth the cost of so many innocent young lives.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: edwardldaley; normandy; quagmire
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To: abc1

Beats me!


41 posted on 06/02/2004 11:12:52 AM PDT by Edward_Daley
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To: Edward_Daley

Brilliant! Bravo!


42 posted on 06/02/2004 11:13:19 AM PDT by tuckrdout (Grant Teri Schindler (Schiavo) her wish: A DIVORCE!)
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To: stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims

Thank God this is just a mock article I wrote to illustrate the absurdity of the left's recent propagandist antics.


43 posted on 06/02/2004 11:14:27 AM PDT by Edward_Daley
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To: familyofman

All that aside, you don't think a permanent state of war existed between the U.S. and Saddam? Even though the U.S. was enforcing a "No fly" zone in Iraq, and our guys were getting shot at on a regular basis? Not to mention the regular flouting, by Saddam, of U.N. resolutions? (although I have to admit, bringing up U.N. resolutions in regards to Iraq is a weak argument)


44 posted on 06/02/2004 11:15:03 AM PDT by stylin_geek (Koffi: 0, G.W. Bush: (I lost count))
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To: Edward_Daley
Although a Japanese ambassador delivered a formal message to his administration just before the assault took place...

No, he had been ordered to deliver it prior to the attacks, but the code machines used by the Japanese had mechanical problems and they were not delivered until after the attack. (US Secretary of State had the decrypted message before the Japanese Ambassador.) A Naval Intelligence officer who was aware of the intercepted "14 part" message drove by the Japanese embassy on Saturday, December 6, 1941 and observed that they were burning their code books. Not a good sign.

45 posted on 06/02/2004 11:15:11 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Uday and Qusay are ead-day)
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To: genghis

Thanks.


46 posted on 06/02/2004 11:15:19 AM PDT by Edward_Daley
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To: stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims

Then my job is done here! ;o)


47 posted on 06/02/2004 11:15:49 AM PDT by Edward_Daley
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To: Blzbba

"I'm not sure that war was ever officially declared upon Germany"

I've already posted the German declaration. Here's the American:

The War Resolution

Declaring that a state of war exists between the Government of Germany and the government and the people of the United States and making provision to prosecute the same.

Whereas the Government of Germany has formally declared war against the government and the people of the United States of America:

Therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the state of war between the United States and the Government of Germany which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the government to carry on war against the Government of Germany; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States


48 posted on 06/02/2004 11:15:57 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Moose4

...and American forces were occupying British islands/bases in the Caribbean, Bermuda & Iceland so that the Brits could redeploy their slender land forces to better defend the homeland -- all before Pearl Harbor. The US was an Atlantic combatant in all but name...


49 posted on 06/02/2004 11:16:13 AM PDT by Tallguy (Surviving in PA....thats the "other PA"...Pennsylvania.)
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To: stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims

No, but Charles Lindburgh did.


50 posted on 06/02/2004 11:17:16 AM PDT by stylin_geek (Koffi: 0, G.W. Bush: (I lost count))
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To: Blzbba

Well then allow me to remove your head from another region of dark and questionable surroundings and remind you that extrapolating cause and effect scenarios from random data will invariably lead the to very conclusion that you started out to find. The human mind is constructed and trained to look for patterns.

The selling of weapons technology to Saddam cannot be used as an indictment of US complicity in his actions. We sold weapons technology to Britain and they yet managed to not use it on the Irish. We allowed other diplomatic personell to leave the country on 9/11, it is just the Saudis and Bin Laden relatives that are always mentioned.

Stop using Google and try visiting a library. You get to read source material and form opinions based on the actual facts instead of edited, recopied, and pre-pasted propoganda.

Of course Bin Laden and Saddam are two different people. But they are members of the same evil brotherhood of terror and are both equally enemies of the United States.


51 posted on 06/02/2004 11:18:04 AM PDT by brothers4thID (Saying Dr. Rice hadn't heard of Al Queda is like saying Dr. Ruth hadn't heard about sex)
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To: martin_fierro

John Dos Passos, another hero of the accedemic left.


52 posted on 06/02/2004 11:21:08 AM PDT by oyez (Fortune favors the bold.)
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To: familyofman

Germany never attacked us, regardless of whether they declared war on paper or not, and Saddam declared defacto war time and again by breaking the cease-fire agreement he signed with us and the U.N. and firing on our plane patrolling the no-fly zones.
Beyond that, when a liberal wants to support or oppose something, they rarely ever make those sorts of distinctions. They are mostly irrational in their assessment of a particular situation, relying more on their guts than their heads.


53 posted on 06/02/2004 11:21:23 AM PDT by Edward_Daley
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To: Blzbba

Since you said that this blather is "provable" why don't you start out providing the photos, documents and such to do so

If you don't have actual proof, then you need to stop spreading around fables as facts.

It is silly.


54 posted on 06/02/2004 11:22:01 AM PDT by tuckrdout (Grant Teri Schindler (Schiavo) her wish: A DIVORCE!)
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To: Blzbba

It's a slight exaggeration. ;o)


55 posted on 06/02/2004 11:23:00 AM PDT by Edward_Daley
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To: stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims

*laughing* Great picture!


56 posted on 06/02/2004 11:24:09 AM PDT by Edward_Daley
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To: Destructor

How heartless of me! *shamed expression*


57 posted on 06/02/2004 11:24:47 AM PDT by Edward_Daley
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

Thank you. :o)


58 posted on 06/02/2004 11:25:12 AM PDT by Edward_Daley
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To: Blzbba
I honestly don't give a fig about Osama's family.

However, in regards to the selling of WMD Saddam, so, we should have continued in this mistake? We should have left Saddam in place to continue butchering the Iraqi people? The 300,000+ dead don't matter and don't count? You're arguing for status quo ante, based on past mistakes?

Give me a break, yeah, you think President Bush is to be hung because his family has oil ties, and invading Iraq is wrong because of those oil ties.

I think you need to reexamine your values and priorities.
59 posted on 06/02/2004 11:25:26 AM PDT by stylin_geek (Koffi: 0, G.W. Bush: (I lost count))
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To: Edward_Daley

Brilliant! You captured precisely what the media of today would have written then.


60 posted on 06/02/2004 11:25:55 AM PDT by catpuppy (John Kerry! When hair is all that matters ...)
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