[Mr Ramsbotham]

Dr. Strangelove was a good piece of satire, but there's one part that betrays the true intentions of the people who produced it. It occurs after the Army troops have fought their way into the base where General Ripper has been holding out, and Captain Mandrake is trying to find a working phone in order to call the President and give him the code to call back the bombers:

I'll tell you what I'm talking about. I'm going to pick up this red telephone which is connected to SAC. And I hope... blast. Blast! Shot away, I expect by one of your men during this ridiculous fighting!

Only, of course, there was nothing "ridiculous" about the fighting, because it freed Mandrake from being held hostage and allowed him the opportunity to relay the code to the President.

[rlmorel]

LOL, it is good satire...hard not to appreciate it, even with their underhanded hatchet job on Curtis Lemay, who was widely rumored to be the template for General Ripper.

Funny, I was watching the movie a few years, back, and all of a sudden I sat up and went "Hey!"

When I backed it up, I saw this:

I was all excited, I thought I had discovered something nobody had seen before...stupid me...:)

[Red Badger]

You may be reading a bit much into the script, seeing that Mandrake (Peter Sellers) was a Brit, and the ‘ridiculous fighting’ he was referring to was between soldiers of the same side, so he was referring to the insanity of people on the same side fighting each other..................