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GENERAL PERSHING, PIGS, PHILIPPINES AND ISLAMIC TERRORISM
FrontPageMag.com ^ | August 18, 2017 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 08/18/2017 12:42:44 PM PDT by 11th_VA

"These Juramentado attacks were materially reduced in number by a practice that the Mohamedans held in abhorrence. The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave with a dead pig. It was not pleasant to have to take such measures, but the prospect of going to hell instead of heaven sometimes deterred the would-be assassins."

These were the words of General Pershing in his autobiography. According to the New York Times (despite having reported on it at the time) it's a myth. The Washington Post agrees. They both cite fact checks by Politifact and Snopes. The problem with all the fact checks is... the facts.

The media has avoided the problem by consulting "experts" who tell them exactly what they want to hear. And what they want to hear is that it never happened. But not only was it written up in the New York Times, the Scientific American, a number of other publications, and mentioned by a number of other military officers, General Pershing had written about it.

General Pershing fell ill and died while working on his unpublished autobiography. The materials remained at the Library of Congress Manuscripts Division. Some contain his handwritten notes. They can be examined by the public.

John T. Greenwood, who assembled, edited and published the manuscript, was the former chief of the Office of Medical History, Office of the Surgeon General, US Army. He is also the author of a number of other military history books.

The book was positively reviewed as a military studies text. It was published by the University of Kentucky Press. At no point in time, until this issue came up, did anyone question its legitimacy: ...

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: pershing; trump; trumpwasrightagain; trumpwinsagain
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““Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”...George Orwell, “1984”
1 posted on 08/18/2017 12:42:44 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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Methinks Trump is going to ‘beat the press’ with this book on Monday ... (snicker ....)


2 posted on 08/18/2017 12:45:58 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Kudos to President Trump for denouncing ALL violence)
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Sad but brilliant quotation from Mr. Blair.


3 posted on 08/18/2017 12:46:09 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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Wow! Once again, President Trump is right and the idiot media is wrong. I’m still not tired of winning.


4 posted on 08/18/2017 12:48:50 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: 11th_VA

bkmk


5 posted on 08/18/2017 12:53:06 PM PDT by robroys woman
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To: 11th_VA

Waste of good pork. Just dump in the entrails and feces. Works the same.


6 posted on 08/18/2017 12:55:57 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: 11th_VA

Orwell was a seer, I never thought I would live to see this.


7 posted on 08/18/2017 12:57:08 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 11th_VA

Trump mentioned the pig fat on bullets. This article doesn’t address that claim.


8 posted on 08/18/2017 12:57:39 PM PDT by robroys woman
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"Trump mentioned the pig fat..."

CNN is hiring.

9 posted on 08/18/2017 1:10:00 PM PDT by Gargantua (You feel me? ;^)
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To: 11th_VA

Pershing bump for later....


10 posted on 08/18/2017 1:10:45 PM PDT by indthkr
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The British did that with paper patch bullets that the indian troops had to bite the bullet paper off before Loading, used lard in the process caused riots amongst the musi troops.
11 posted on 08/18/2017 1:13:11 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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General Pershing claimed that he buried musims in a grave with a pig.

But "Shemp" Smith, the homosexual talking head on FOX News, declared that this fact has been proven false.

It's a shame that such an honored military general lied about it in his own biography, isn't it?

Too bad Shemp wasn't there to help him get the facts of his own life straight.


12 posted on 08/18/2017 1:15:00 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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Trump mentioned the pig fat on bullets. This article doesn’t address that claim.

Here's the actual quote: "Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!"

Nothing in there about bullets.

13 posted on 08/18/2017 1:15:26 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: 11th_VA

So this might be legendary, like George Washington chopping down a cherry tree and Honest Abe walking five miles to return a book.

Ja vell. So gates.

(O well, so it goes)


14 posted on 08/18/2017 1:20:20 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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King of the Khyber Rifles: pig grease.


15 posted on 08/18/2017 1:21:08 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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Trump also has access to the Pentagon which has the general staff and field reports.


16 posted on 08/18/2017 1:22:00 PM PDT by Red Steel
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I didn’t think he said anything about bullets - the media said that’s what he was eluding to - did he set them up for another can of whipass?


17 posted on 08/18/2017 1:22:40 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Kudos to President Trump for denouncing ALL violence)
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The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave with a dead pig. It was not pleasant to have to take such measures...

Kind of hard on the pig, too.

According to the New York Times (despite having reported on it at the time) it's a myth. The Washington Post agrees.

I think what they're calling a myth is the 50 bullets dipped in pigs blood, 49 Muslims shot with them, and the 50th sent back as a warning story.

18 posted on 08/18/2017 1:25:24 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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I didn’t think he said anything about bullets - the media said that’s what he was eluding to - did he set them up for another can of whipass?

He didn't say anything about bullets, only that we should study what Pershing did. The media may have assumed that's what he meant.

19 posted on 08/18/2017 1:27:10 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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You are correct. CNN and others are conflating the tweet with comments during a pre-election campaign rally.


20 posted on 08/18/2017 1:27:26 PM PDT by moehoward
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