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Well!! Inspire, first there has to be one to have an argument.
Dan
walter e wallis wrote:
The
Korean war was abandoned by Ike. See earlier correspondence on this. I
suggest you set up another site if you want to piss on the current President
so I can respond without clouding the issue.Inspire
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Truman was 100% correct.He
was the Commander in Chief not MacArthur.Reading
more about what was going on inside the militaryand
the feifdoms I would have done the same thing. Truman
had a large country to run.MacArthur
was only one pf the players. Today
it is the other way around we have no President.Being
rendered irrelevant AND THAT IS DANGEROUS. Dan
Fahey
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003
3:21 PM
Subject: Harry Truman
He was a cantankerous
guy, at times. In his oral biography, Plain Speaking, he said to the author,
Merle Miller, "They say I was ambitious. I never was ambitious. If the
only thing I'd ever done in my life was be the best damn battery commander
I could be, I'd have settled for that."
But when he spoke of firing Gen. MacArthur he said, "I fired him because
he wouldn't respect the authority of the President .... I didn't fire him
because he was a dumb SOB, although he was, but that's not against the
law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in
jail." With
a Commander-in-Chief who thought like this it is no wonder we didn't win
the war. Bob Dove
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