To: Terpfen
Well dat ain't me. I want a reprise of "Monte Casino" on Sadar City.
5 posted on
12/11/2006 4:44:08 PM PST by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: SandRat
Oh, I wasn't accusing you. I was thinking more of the usual suspects--we all know who they are.
10 posted on
12/11/2006 4:46:01 PM PST by
Terpfen
("Conservatives" who sat at home cost us the War on Terror, SCOTUS, and economic success.)
To: SandRat
Monte Casino
Yes it was a holy place but the enemy was inside so we sent some 1300 B17s to turn it inside out.
12 posted on
12/11/2006 4:48:15 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: SandRat
I want a reprise of "Monte Casino" on Sadar City.
Then you know nothing about history. The assault on Monte Cassino was one of the costliest battles in terms of men and material, however, it never saw the requisite coordinate attack it required and was of little strategic value to the Germans who could maintain attack positions despite intense bombing culminating in the destruction of the empty cathedral. Read Matthew Parker's excellent book titled 'Monte Cassino: The Hardest Fought Battle of World War II'.
Personally, I would prefer we reprise Hiroshima or Nagasaki on Sadr City, but with our troops nearby, use a Daisy Cutter instead.
27 posted on
12/11/2006 5:26:20 PM PST by
dyed_in_the_wool
("O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends" - Koran 5.51)
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