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1 posted on 12/19/2010 12:17:50 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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Wonder if Mark Levin would have any opinion on this, being that he’s a big admirer of Patton.


44 posted on 12/19/2010 1:12:07 PM PST by FrdmLvr (Death to tyrants)
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Hm. “Block-busting secrets.” Makes you wonder if they had anything to do with what his fellow (but much more liberal and friendly-to-the-Soviets) General, Dwight Eisenhower, was referring to in his farewell speech, when he warned about the “military-industrial complex.” [You can see Ike’s speech at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY or read it at http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html.]

Patton’s death occurred 65 years ago Tuesday.


50 posted on 12/19/2010 1:22:24 PM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast (Obama: running for re-election in '12 or running for Mahdi now? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi])
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This kind of thread always draws the folks who scoff at the idea and post messages ridiculing this or any 'conspiracy theory'. I can see why.

General Patton's death was under questionable circumstances and he was a 'controversial' figure but I see no hard evidence of an assassination conspiracy. Frankly, after 65 years, even if Patton was killed because he was publicly opposed to Democrat presidents too-cozy accommodations with the then-dangerous Soviet Union, it is virtually impossible to prove and, 65 years later, there is no one left to prosecute. Interesting theory - but hardly worth pursuing.

51 posted on 12/19/2010 1:23:01 PM PST by Jim Scott
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I once read the detailed story of Patton’s last days. One thing which differs from the story here is that his driver was driving recklessly.

The guy who drove Patton all through the war was from Abbeville, Alabama and never had an accident. He had gone home just before the accident and Patton got a young reckless driver which Patton, of course just loved.

The accident was just that, an accident. Patton was extremely unlucky as he was the only one seriously hurt.

At first he did not do well then a Scottish Doctor was called in and ordered hooks be attached to Patton’s cheekbones which had weights attached to them. This worked and his neck eventually straightened out.

Just as it looked like Patton was going to recover, he had a sudden setback and died.

The only place I can see where there may have been a conspiracy/murder was at the very last but I doubt even that.

There is one interesting possibility. Patton ordered that Beadle Smith not be allowed at his funeral. I think Smith was in fact sympathetic to the Communists and was in a position of great power.


56 posted on 12/19/2010 1:38:34 PM PST by yarddog
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Ping.


62 posted on 12/19/2010 1:46:54 PM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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Let’s start at square one. Has anyone actually seen Patton’s birth certificate?


63 posted on 12/19/2010 1:48:51 PM PST by Joe Miner
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You’re right. It was murder. The President should resign his post immediately.


65 posted on 12/19/2010 1:49:09 PM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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Yes.


72 posted on 12/19/2010 2:01:13 PM PST by DWar ("The ultimate destination of Political Correctness is totalitarianism.")
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Target Patton by Robert Wilcox

a good book for Christmas :)


81 posted on 12/19/2010 2:24:32 PM PST by Germanicus Cretorian
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I read an extensive 2 volume biography of the General many years ago in my youth. Something always hit me as drastically wrong with all those events after the war. I wouldn't trust FDR as far as I could throw the old socialist son of a bitch.

Nam Vet

83 posted on 12/19/2010 2:28:15 PM PST by Nam Vet (Are you better off than you were 4 trillion dollars ago?)
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I truly believe he was killed by the Communist in the US government.. Patton a strong anti-communist and the powers that be at the time were appeasing the Russians... Its time for the truth to be told..


84 posted on 12/19/2010 2:28:22 PM PST by crazydad
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Yes, he was taken out by the US Military.


87 posted on 12/19/2010 2:39:33 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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Wouldn’t surprise me that Patton got killed. At that time like today, those people who speak their mind without bowing to the altar of political correctness end up getting silenced !


88 posted on 12/19/2010 2:41:45 PM PST by CORedneck
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Neil Armstrong didn’t do the moonwalk—Michael Jackson did.


89 posted on 12/19/2010 2:48:15 PM PST by SC_Pete
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he was murdered. many when i was in the army many were convinced of this.


92 posted on 12/19/2010 3:07:21 PM PST by 1st Division guy
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Would it not have been simpler, less suspicious, and more practical for the assassins to have finished the job at the scene of the accident?
You can’t with any degree of certainty kill a person in a slow-moving vehicle by putting a truck in front of him. So let’s say that Patton’s broken neck had some other cause there at the scene of the accident.
Are we to assume that the Russians don’t know how to do this properly? So that he’s dead instead of just paralyzed and requiring additional violence later?
Meanwhile he’s alive and might possibly speak?
Not to mention the witnesses at the scene. Very messy situation, very unprofessionally arranged.
Conclusion: assassination not likely.


95 posted on 12/19/2010 3:10:38 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Merry Christmas!)
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He was progressing until ‘specialists’ from Washington arrived to take over his medical care. He didn’t survive long under their ‘treatment’.


97 posted on 12/19/2010 3:18:33 PM PST by PAR35
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You all are idiots. It was the Klingons.
105 posted on 12/19/2010 3:41:17 PM PST by Cheburashka (Democratic Underground - the Hogwarts of Stupid.)
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Ike off’d him.


106 posted on 12/19/2010 3:53:53 PM PST by smokingfrog (Do all the talking you want, but do what I tell you.)
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All your Patton are belong to us. Your country big liberal and conservatives in bad conditions.


107 posted on 12/19/2010 3:53:59 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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