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Astronaut Scott Kelly apologizes after quoting, praising Winston Churchill
Washington Examiner ^ | October 7, 2018 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 10/07/2018 7:00:17 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie

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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Geez, what a pussy.


81 posted on 10/07/2018 7:44:03 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Kelly and his brother are bald idiots.


82 posted on 10/07/2018 7:45:07 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Anyone who would apologize for quoting the great and honorable Sir Winston Churchill is a wussy. He should be ashamed of himself.


83 posted on 10/07/2018 7:46:19 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Never, ever, EVER apologize!


84 posted on 10/07/2018 7:46:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

He did make some generic racial and cultural comments. Churchill could not have been on our deacon board. Churchill did have the leadership that kept the Nazis from taking England. Perfect people get crucified. And heroes get vilified. It’s also some of his fault that Cuba kept their cigar sales going.


85 posted on 10/07/2018 7:49:00 PM PDT by KDF48 (Redeemed by Christ.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Wasn’t Gallipoli his idea?

Churchill had balls. But the empire was a nasty business up until 1947.

But, Mary Poppins. So, we love the Brits.


86 posted on 10/07/2018 7:49:53 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I’ve never seen a Communist apologize for supporting Communist dictators.

Ever.


87 posted on 10/07/2018 7:50:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: robowombat
From looking at the forces available including landing craft I suspect a ‘Second Front Now’ invasion in mid-43 would have produced a very big version of the Anzio Beachead. Which, I believe, is what WSC was concerned would happen. He never thought the Germans would crush the landing as they did at Dieppe. It would be to big for that. But contain it and turn it into a sort of the second coming of Gallipoli, that did have a good chance of happening. A year later the correlation of forces was really heavily tipped towards the Anglo-Americans.

German armor in 43' was committed to Kursk where they were bled white.

Dieppe only involved about 6000 Canadian troops.

German defenses were actually much better prepared in Summer 44' than they were in Summer 43' although they had been reinforced after the Dieppe debacle.

88 posted on 10/07/2018 7:52:28 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: robowombat

Not to mention the Russians were bleeding them from the east.

I think the allies did a great job on the Nazis. The US was instrumental in getting the machines and bullets to Europe. But our losses—no matter how horrific—paled in comparison to the Eastern Front.


89 posted on 10/07/2018 7:52:54 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Snickering Hound

I presume you did not forget your sarc tag.

I am no history scholar, but considering that I read PT109 at the age of 10 and later endeavored to understand more about WWII than just mechanized warfare as a childhood hobby, your history is not aligned with what I read.

Rather, your history seems more aligned with the movie “Churchill” which I’ve never seen, but have read its reviews and choose to never view it.

Reviews which include The Churchill Project, by the way.

https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/fake-history-in-churchill-starring-brian-cox/


90 posted on 10/07/2018 7:53:05 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: gspurlock
That and his prediction of an "Iron Curtain".

Two of the most prophetic comments in modern times.

91 posted on 10/07/2018 7:53:52 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Islam is colonizing the West with foreign funded mosques and vast re-settlement.

the majority of muslims in America are first generation immigrants. And they don’t see Nation of Islam to be anything other than a kooky black nationalist cult.

Islamic imperialism and Communist imperialism are never criticized.


92 posted on 10/07/2018 7:54:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Vermont Lt
Churchill had balls. But the empire was a nasty business up until 1947.

Very nasty. The term 'Concentration Camp' comes from what they did to the Boers in South Africa in the 1900's.

93 posted on 10/07/2018 7:54:34 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Un-freaking-believable. How Obama-esque.

Turned in his man-card. I’ll forever see him as Astronaut Scott Gelding. Obviously was mistaken to have had the Right Stuff.


94 posted on 10/07/2018 7:56:01 PM PDT by Dad x 3
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To: lesko

“Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies......... That should transcend partisan politics,”

these people are f***in’ stupid.


95 posted on 10/07/2018 7:59:07 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: logi_cal869
I am no history scholar, but considering that I read PT109 at the age of 10 and later endeavored to understand more about WWII than just mechanized warfare as a childhood hobby, your history is not aligned with what I read.

The Germans had little more than river barges to conduct a cross channel invasion in 1940. At least the balance of air power was in their favor at the time although it was slipping.

Britain was already out producing the Germans in pilots and aircraft when the war started in 1939.

By 1943 the Germans had little of a surface fleet left and it was in the Baltic and the Tirpitz in Norway.

They had fled in the 1942 'Channel Dash'.

96 posted on 10/07/2018 8:00:30 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Westbrook

Swiped from John Wayne.


97 posted on 10/07/2018 8:02:51 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: Tennessean4Bush

“This Prime Minister Kills Fascism”

Meanwhile Commie Gutherie and Commie Seeger didn’t actually “support” the war effort until Pearl Harbor was attacked.

Pete Seeger even recorded songs against corporatists in America “pushing for war” against NAZI Germany.


98 posted on 10/07/2018 8:03:00 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: cyclotic
Scott Kelly is an idiot.

This can't be repeated often enough! I've always thought he was an idiot but this proves it beyond any doubt!

99 posted on 10/07/2018 8:03:04 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Gator113

Maybe a hole Kelly thinks Stalin was a better ally.


100 posted on 10/07/2018 8:04:20 PM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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