Posted on 06/07/2009 12:25:18 PM PDT by 444Flyer
The head of the British Army choose to be at a service honouring the heroes of Pegasus Bridge instead of attending the official ceremony attended by Barack Obama and Nicholas Sarkozy.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
"So why isn't your mother here, Sir?"
Good
This is what leadership is all about!
Did he at least send Obama an Ipod?
Obama the narcissist isnt playing his cards right. The Euroweenie media will turn on him. With the internet any stories they investigate about his dirt will show up on our shores.
Much of the euromedia has aleady turned on the messiah.
The list, ping
Of course! They know this guy is going to drive all the jobs out of the U.S. and possibly to their countries. No wonder they love Him.
Gen Dannat knows his priorities and is a moral man who understands history. It is refreshing that he’s not one of those Euro-weenies who isn;t mesmerized by Obamessiah.
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Too bad we don't have a president like that !
We are honored that you would poke our Messiah in the eye, sir. Well done.
I read the piece, and I can’t see how the writer concludes that the many did this as a snub to Benito Obama. He could not be in two places at once, so he chose to attend another event that he thought was significant.
Obviously Hussein MUST get this guy fired, somehow!
One of D-Day's most compelling stories is the British 6th Airborne and their astonishing airmanship in gliders using nothing but a compass and a stopwatch in the dead of night.
Note how the headline in this UK paper doesn’t even mention Sarkozy. It’s sort of the flip side of Sarkozy honoring Obama but not the Queen of England. Such is the state of affairs between the real nationalists among the Brits and French, that the other is below all consideration so far as they’re concerned, while Americans are serious enough players to be honored or consciously snubbed.
>With the internet any stories they investigate about his dirt will show up on our shores.<
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Including his legal BC?
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“The coup-de-main had to succeed to set the path for the rest of D-Day. A lot of lives were lost but it was really important that it succeeded and every soldier arrived at their mission to the letter.
Since the terrible days of the war we have enjoyed peace and it's easy to forget the price we paid for that.”
Six hours before the first boats hit the beaches on D-Day, a stealth force of 181 men from the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry glided in to capture Pegasus and Horsa bridges over the Caen canal and river Orne-preventing the Germans from sending reinforcements to repel the Allies.
The bridges were code-named after the winged horse that was the insignia of the Sixth Airborne Division-of which the Ox and Bucks were part-and the name of the giant gliders in which they came.
The men, led by Major John Howard, performed a textbook operation with the first plane landing just after midnight, 50ft from Pegasus Bridge.
Six hundred Paras were then parachuted in to hold the position and protect the nearby village of Ranville, the first in France to be liberated at 2:30am.”
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Good decision by Dannatt. The absence of the Queen was astonishing. I am stunned that Prince Charles and the PM went in her absence.
It may show up on our shores Luigi, but not through our screaming media...it will show up on FR.
Queen to Michelle the next time she puts her hands on her: Get your MF hands of me hoe!
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