Posted on 11/18/2005 10:44:35 AM PST by FreedomFarmer
A message from the ghost of General George S. Patton.
"There is only one tactical principal which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death, and destruction in the minimum amount of time."
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."
That is because he was a Real Man not an administrator, and definitely not a yes man.
Thanks to the poster for this most excellent clip!!
Should be rated G for conservatives...XXX for liberals!
Bavaria was the only region of Germany that had its power, water and sewer infrastructure restored within four months of the surrender. He had the lowest starvation death toll, and no looting.
Not bad for a warhorse.
He was prescient about the Russians, and had Ike followed his plan, the frontier of Russia would have started East of Poland somewhere.
I considered saying that if Patton was in charge in Iraq, that once he got to Baghdad, he would have then set his sites on Tehran.
Love it! Thank you oldbluejacket!
He was high school educated, (his Mom had insisted all her children be book learned!) but the Army recruiter was really excited that this young recruit had mule team experience. So they assigned him to communications school. He didn't have a clue why mules = communications until he learned that the method of laying field wire was a cradle on the back of a mule.
He graduated comm school and was assigned a field unit in Louisiana where he spent several years with the cavalry, chasing this crazing Brigadier by the name of Patton. Patton was refining his tank maneuvering tactics and the comm unit would soon replace those mules with jeeps.
I can assure you that whenever we had breaks we would draw out many war stories from this old soldier! He particularly liked President Truman because in 1948 truman ordered that the military be integrated and that promotions would be fair and equitable.
Exactly correct, or Syria.
The problem with Iran is that most of the people can't stand the current government. Not exactly true in Syria. An army can literally pass through Syria like 'crap through a goose' as Patton would say and you really aren't hurting many friendlies.
In Iran, you certainly would. An invasion of Iran would take a tremendous amount of covert work to do successfully and have the right people on your side. Not so with Syria, I would suspect.
OUTSTANDING!!!!!
To paraphrase Patton -
''I'd rather have Jihadis in front of me than Democrats behind me.''
See post 25.
bump
...and we wouldn't have known it until it was a fait accompli...
My favorite quote: "May God have mercy on my enemies as I won't" & the second best: "God help me, I do love it so. I love it more than my life!"(War)
Yes, because he would have kept Saddam's guys in place.
That was the post I was responding to. He and I were thinking along the same lines.
That's great. My youngest son tried to use that last quote in his High School Year Book. They allowed it by printing B_____</p>
This more touching and fun to listen to.
Remember The Generals speech?
General George Patton has a few words to say to those dumb bastards
http://oldbluejacket.com/General_Patton_Message.htm
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