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VC (Victoria Cross) winner branded a war criminal
The Telegraph ^ | 10 April 2006 | Paul Chapman

Posted on 04/10/2006 12:57:07 PM PDT by 5050 no line

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To: Kenny Bunk
That SOB, can't remember his name ... told everyone he was "Irish" ... heard he married two really rich women ... went into politics in Massachusetts, or something.

Has the SOB signe d the SF-180 yet?

And has he turned it in?

41 posted on 04/10/2006 1:56:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
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To: 5050 no line
What is amazing is the author of the book quoted is a LTC and has produced seven volumes on military history including well received ones on NZ forces in World War One and a biograpohy of Kippenberger. What planet does the man live on. He knows (or maybe I shouldn't say that) what is done in battle to get the job done.
42 posted on 04/10/2006 1:59:58 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: 5050 no line

More nihilistic deconstructionism from the misanthropic, genocidal left.


43 posted on 04/10/2006 2:03:24 PM PDT by Cruising Speed
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To: MeanWestTexan
Sounds smart to me...... Subjected him to the firing squad, mind you, as, under the Geneva Convention the Germans would have been permitted to kill him for being in a fake uniform.

Agreed on both comments.
44 posted on 04/10/2006 2:18:37 PM PDT by caveat emptor
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To: okie01

...just as you're in trouble with the Canucks.

I'm not afraid of them. When you know what you believe is on the side of the truth, no matter how hysterical the otehr side is will not shake you, just like the likes of Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, Zaqwiri, Der Spiegel, Zapatero, Ming Pao, or Qian Qichen have never really shaken the confidence of George W. Bush.

About the British military, I would say recent evidences indicate they were exhausted and close to collapse just a few months before Hitler started the offensives on the Soviet Union. Had Hitler gambled that he would "solve" Britain first, or decided not to declare war on the United States after Pearl Harbor and the US remained neutral with regards to Germany, I would say the WWII would have won by Hitler due to US isolationism. In light of this, I wouldn't blame Britain too much for its hesitacy on deploying more militaries.

45 posted on 04/10/2006 5:25:38 PM PDT by NZerFromHK (Leftism is like honey mixed with arsenic: initially it tastes good, but that will end up killing you)
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To: NZerFromHK
My reading of history is the same.

Winston Churchill won WWII for the Brits by keeping them in it, until events forced the U.S. to join them.

46 posted on 04/10/2006 6:04:00 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Nah, not dat guy. I was talking about de udder guy. You are allatime bad-mouthing the wrong guy! I'm talkin' SOB, here.

Tall skinny freaky-looking horseface guy. What guy you talkin' about? SF-180? My guy, he signs'em all day long, 2-3 at a time. You talkin' the udder guy from Massachusetts, right? Tall Real FAT guy, drinks like a fish, right? Brothers got shot, girl-drowned kinda guy?

Maybe you talkin' the queer guy from Massachusetts? Or dat udder guy from Massachusetts that done the sex thing with the kids? I'm trying to get these Massachusetts SOB guys straight and you sure ain't no help.

47 posted on 04/10/2006 9:11:26 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Any legal immigrant who wants to join me as an American, is welcome.)
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To: okie01

I read somewhere that Britain's cabinet ministers and even many members of parliament were prepared for an armstice/surrender with Germany in mid 1941 and it was only Churchill who persuaded them not to do so. They were this close to become a second Vichy. I only knew that their gold reserves had been run out before knowing this news. In retrospect, Land Lease was a some of the few really good things FDR did because he ensured the long term survival of Britain and ultimately the United States. I know isolationists at the time, Buchanite paleoconservatives today, and even many picky postmodern hiistorians now all damn Land Lease because it was clearly in breach of the neutrality stands of the United States at the time, but national survival comes first in such cases.

Next time when some British detractors tell us Britain could win WWII without US involvement, stuck them with this tidbit.


48 posted on 04/10/2006 9:37:23 PM PDT by NZerFromHK (Leftism is like honey mixed with arsenic: initially it tastes good, but that will end up killing you)
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To: okie01

Oh my, it should be "Lend Lease". Spelling error LOL.


49 posted on 04/10/2006 9:40:09 PM PDT by NZerFromHK (Leftism is like honey mixed with arsenic: initially it tastes good, but that will end up killing you)
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To: okie01

,,, we're in the age of pontificating academics. Six billion people on the planet and they get to be the judges. This is just a "no doubt about it" demonstration of how little news is made in NZ. My attitude to what was done in this case would be summed up by paraphrasing DHL out of context... "whatever it takes."


50 posted on 04/11/2006 3:31:52 AM PDT by shaggy eel
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To: 5050 no line
Hulme took out 33 German "SNIPERS" did he? RIIIIIIIGGHHTTT, sure he did. Could it be that, to a presstitute, that any infantryman with a rifle is a "sniper"?

Anyway, Hulme's achievement was really impressive.

51 posted on 04/11/2006 3:50:41 AM PDT by Rockpile
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To: 5050 no line
"To me, cheating just means you care about winning."

-Red Green

52 posted on 04/11/2006 5:13:05 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("How'd you get that scar, mister?" "Nicked myself shaving.")
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WHAT THE KIND OF STUPID S*IT IS THIS?

What's next, fighter pilots will called war criminals when they shoot down their enemies because they weren't flying with the intent of firing, no they were just out for a practice flight?

53 posted on 04/11/2006 5:41:05 AM PDT by Mikey (Freedom isn't free, but slavery is.)
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To: Frank_2001
The Nazis killed a hell of a lot more then 6 million Jews.

While I'm not trying to trivialize the murder of 6 million Jew's. What I'm saying is people seem to forget is that lunatic is responsible for a lot of deaths.

I'm an American of Polish descent and the gypsies are to Poland what the indian's are to America. Thousands of gypsies were murdered. Hitler murdered everyone he disliked and / or disagreed with anything he had to say. A lot of people Jewish or not died because of that pos.

54 posted on 04/11/2006 5:55:20 AM PDT by Mikey (Freedom isn't free, but slavery is.)
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To: 5050 no line
re :Which planet do these Kiwis live on nowadays?

Sorry I read it as

But a new book by two military historians says that, in winning his VC, Sgt Hulme committed "acts of perfidy" under international law.

I must be blind as you read it

Kiwis says that, in winning his VC, Sgt Hulme committed "acts of perfidy" under international law.

55 posted on 04/11/2006 5:58:23 AM PDT by tonycavanagh (We got plenty of doomsayers where are the truth sayers)
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To: E-Mat
" Only complete passivity is acceptable to these numbskulls."

What a better way to breed the next generation of perfect slaves.

A passive person is easy to beat into submission.

56 posted on 04/11/2006 5:58:23 AM PDT by Mikey (Freedom isn't free, but slavery is.)
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To: NZerFromHK
re :Next time when some British detractors tell us Britain could win WWII without US involvement, stuck them with this tidbit.

Name a British detractor who has ever claimed that.

And did we give in no we didn't so stop yakking on about what might of been and stick with what did happen.

57 posted on 04/11/2006 6:01:47 AM PDT by tonycavanagh (We got plenty of doomsayers where are the truth sayers)
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To: E-Mat
re :Only complete passivity is acceptable to these numbskulls.

That post was and is complete bollox.

Crime rates going up crime rates going down we have figures bearing both out depending on the political point someone is trying to make.

According to are Home Office crime on the whole has been going down.

And why are we talking about Britain some poncey academics write cr*p and its Britain's fault.

Declare war on us and find out hard we can be

58 posted on 04/11/2006 6:05:29 AM PDT by tonycavanagh (We got plenty of doomsayers where are the truth sayers)
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To: 5050 no line
"Accordingly, as circumstances present themselves one should modify one's plans.

All warfare is based on deception."

Sun-Tzu, Art of War

59 posted on 04/11/2006 6:06:22 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (The MSM is a hate group and we are the object of their disdain.)
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To: Mikey
re :What a better way to breed the next generation of perfect slaves.

Total bollox, you ever been to Britain.

60 posted on 04/11/2006 6:06:51 AM PDT by tonycavanagh (We got plenty of doomsayers where are the truth sayers)
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