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« Reply #25 on: May 12, 2010, 12:12:19 PM »

lol you said it pal, what does O stand for?
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« Reply #26 on: May 12, 2010, 12:30:26 PM »

lol you said it pal, what does O stand for?

Omazing?
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« Reply #27 on: May 13, 2010, 01:31:56 AM »

Fascism in this country will be carried on the backs of libertarians who cannot tell the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
...and the idiots voting for the "lesser of two evils" are doing SO much to stop facism in the mean time.

(and what does this have to do with anything in this thread?)
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« Reply #28 on: May 13, 2010, 09:37:01 AM »

let's stay on topic
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« Reply #29 on: May 27, 2010, 04:44:21 PM »

Of course not. We have Truman to thank for the fact that we still have North Korea.

We rather have to thank Truman there weren't nuclear war.
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« Reply #30 on: May 27, 2010, 04:48:49 PM »

Of course not. We have Truman to thank for the fact that we still have North Korea.

We rather have to thank Truman there weren't nuclear war.

The US would have easily and handily won a nuclear war at that time.
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« Reply #31 on: May 27, 2010, 07:52:51 PM »

Of course not. We have Truman to thank for the fact that we still have North Korea.

We rather have to thank Truman there weren't nuclear war.

The US would have easily and handily won a nuclear war at that time.

That doesn't change the fact that it would have been a nuclear war.
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« Reply #32 on: May 27, 2010, 10:29:15 PM »

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« Reply #33 on: May 28, 2010, 05:53:02 PM »

Of course not. We have Truman to thank for the fact that we still have North Korea.

We rather have to thank Truman there weren't nuclear war.

The US would have easily and handily won a nuclear war at that time.

Does that justify starting a nuclear war?
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« Reply #34 on: May 28, 2010, 05:55:18 PM »

Of course not. We have Truman to thank for the fact that we still have North Korea.

We rather have to thank Truman there weren't nuclear war.

The US would have easily and handily won a nuclear war at that time.

Does that justify starting a nuclear war?

No.
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« Reply #35 on: May 29, 2010, 07:45:52 PM »

Derrick explain to me why Mcaurthur would have been a good president, he was hated in the military because he was a back stabber,is it because your so pro-war as long as someone else has to fight it?
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« Reply #36 on: May 29, 2010, 10:17:03 PM »

I've never heard one bad word about MacArthur.
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« Reply #37 on: May 29, 2010, 10:43:39 PM »

I've never heard one bad word about MacArthur.

Then either you are deaf or choosing not to listen.
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« Reply #38 on: May 29, 2010, 10:47:26 PM »

I've never heard one bad word about MacArthur.

Then either you are deaf or choosing not to listen.

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« Reply #39 on: May 29, 2010, 10:59:10 PM »

I've never heard one bad word about MacArthur.

Then either you are deaf or choosing not to listen.

yawn

He is choosing not to listen.
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« Reply #40 on: May 30, 2010, 01:25:43 PM »

Oh I guess Fox News didnt tell him what to believe, Macarthur was not popular.
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« Reply #41 on: May 30, 2010, 02:10:01 PM »

Cpeeks, he wasn't popular among the polis. He was popular in the military.
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« Reply #42 on: May 30, 2010, 03:47:43 PM »

You're all basically saying that MacArthur was too far to the right and so you don't like him. Good argument.
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« Reply #43 on: May 30, 2010, 05:21:17 PM »

Not really Ike hated him from there younger days in the service.
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« Reply #44 on: May 31, 2010, 03:26:33 AM »

so?
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« Reply #45 on: May 31, 2010, 01:13:20 PM »
« Edited: June 02, 2010, 01:34:46 PM by True Federalist »

You're all basically saying that MacArthur was too far to the right and so you don't like him. Good argument.

Anyone who thinks that MacArthur was on the right, let alone the far right, never did take a good look as what he did.  Aside from his disdain of politicians telling him what to do, based on what he did while Superintendent of West Point, while Army Chief of Staff, while Field Marshal of the Philippines, and while the Gaijin Shogun of Japan, he was center or center-left politically for the most part, excepting military issues.  Republicans embraced him because he came into conflict with the Democratic presidents he served under, but those disputes were primarily over military issues.  Only when it comes to the military, does MacArthur's record mark him as being to the right politically.

MacArthur finally let his disagreements with his political superiors lead him into insubordination and he was fired for it.
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« Reply #46 on: June 01, 2010, 06:31:21 AM »

Um we dont have "field marshalls" in the U.S Army.
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« Reply #47 on: June 01, 2010, 01:55:09 PM »
« Edited: June 02, 2010, 01:35:03 PM by True Federalist »

Um we dont have "field marshalls" in the U.S Army.

Agreed.  MacArthur was a Field Marshal in the Philippine Army, not the U.S. Army.
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« Reply #48 on: June 02, 2010, 02:37:09 AM »

No.
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« Reply #49 on: June 02, 2010, 11:31:40 PM »

Um we dont have "field marshals" in the U.S Army.
Well if you want to be so technical about it, George Washington (posthumously) and William Pershing held a rank equivalent to "field marshal."

The U.S. rank of General of the Army, is considered equivalent to Field Marshal as well.

We've never had someone on active duty hold the rank of General of the Armies at the same time someone held General of the Army, so it is a matter of debate whether to consider those two ranks equivalent or not, since date in rank would preserve their seniority if they were considered equivalent ranks  While there was a proposal to promote Nimitz and MacArthur to 6-star rank for the invasion of Japan to unambiguously give them seniority over British 5-star officers who would be involved and had gained 5-star rank earlier, Japan's surrender rendered the point moot and it wasn't really needed even if the invasion had been necessary.
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