D-Day is cancelled (if D-Day were today)

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 20th March 2009 | Richard Littlejohn

[naturalman1975]

Which got me wondering what would have happened if this lot had been in charge back in 1944...

This is the BBC Home Service. Here is the news, and this is Alvar Lidell reading it. At 0630 GMT this morning, Allied forces began an invasion of occupied Europe. No British service personnel were involved.

While American, Free French, Polish and Empire divisions stormed the beaches of Normandy, absorbing heavy casualties, the Government defended its policy of non-engagement.

The Prime Minister told the House of Commons that on the advice of the Health and Safety Executive, ministers had decided that the inclement conditions in the English Channel, which caused the Meteorological Office to issue a Severe Weather Warning at 0900 hours yesterday, had made any waterborne crossing too dangerous.

Admiralty officials report that they have failed to meet the new legal requirement of one trained lifeguard to every two soldiers, per landing craft, and are therefore unable to put to sea. There is also a shortage of qualified Royal Navy captains, owing to them all being away on diversity awareness courses.

In addition, the presence of barrage balloons and anti-aircraft artillery along the coast of Northern-France could leave the Air Ministry exposed to the threat of legal action from members of the RAF in the event of injury, stress, hurt feelings or death.

It would be inadvisable to proceed with any invasion until a full risk assessment had been carried out by the War Office, especially to ascertain whether the noise generated by machine gun fire, land mines, mortars and hand grenades falls outside 'safe' decibel limits and required the compulsory wearing of ear-muffs...

[naturalman1975]

Whole headline - LITTLEJOHN: This is the BBC Home Service. Keep calm, carry on and don't panic, D-Day is cancelled

I like the Daily Mail but their headlines are too long to be FR friendly.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Barack Obama would insist on a carbon neutral D-Day invasion, if he would have been in charge.

And all of the landing craft would need to made from recyclable materials

[It's me]

My 19 yr old son is going to the beaches of Normandy tomorrow. He is so looking forward to being there and experiencing it. I never realized that he would be there so close to the anniversary!

[max americana]

I suggest a nice viewing of the A&E movie IKE with Tom Selleck as Eisenhower. The movie was about the days before D-Day and how Ike and the Allies formulated the invasion.

-the most amusing part aside from Montgomery’s prima donna antics was the night before D-day and the officers were watching a movie to get their minds off the war for a bit.
The movie was Henry V, and the scene had a lot of medieval soldiers when Ike leans over to one of his generals and says : “what is it with these Europeans and war?” (or something to that effect).

[Dilbert San Diego]

We couldn’t fight and win World War 2 today, with the social/political climate we have today.

[EyeGuy]

“We couldn’t fight and win World War 2 today, with the social/political climate we have today.”

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Indeed.

“Intellectuals” and “elites”, of which we have an egregious oversupply today, are too nuanced and sophisticated to understand the simple and direct truth that in order to defeat your enemy, you must kill as many of their young men as necessary to get them to stop fighting.

Nasty, brutish and short is the most humane mode of warfare.

[I Buried My Guns]

We may well be fighting a crusade soon, so I hope the stawart and brave step up to the plate, and away from the XBox.

[It's me]

Well, D-Day is June 6th. So this really isn’t about the anniversary. :(