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flashman13

(2,586 posts)
Sat May 30, 2026, 10:16 PM 13 hrs ago

In a time when we have a President who refuses to take responsibility for anything, I thought I would like to

give an example of what true leadership looks like.

I recently watched a movie which included a segment on the D-day invasion of Normandy. On the night of June 5th before the troops began to land, General Eisenhower drafted this note in his own hand:

Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foodhold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.

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In a time when we have a President who refuses to take responsibility for anything, I thought I would like to (Original Post) flashman13 13 hrs ago OP
They don't make Republicans like that anymore MustLoveBeagles 13 hrs ago #1
Ike was the VERY LAST DECENT REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT! Enter stage left 12 hrs ago #2
... Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those struggle4progress 11 hrs ago #5
Even traitorous, shitheel R.E. Lee took credit / blame for Pickett's Charge at Gettysbutg RPM 12 hrs ago #3
FDR, Churchill, Eisenhower. Irish_Dem 11 hrs ago #4

struggle4progress

(126,782 posts)
5. ... Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those
Sat May 30, 2026, 11:48 PM
11 hrs ago

who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking.

This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron ...

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-chance-for-peace-delivered-before-the-american-society-newspaper-editors

RPM

(5,673 posts)
3. Even traitorous, shitheel R.E. Lee took credit / blame for Pickett's Charge at Gettysbutg
Sat May 30, 2026, 11:37 PM
12 hrs ago

more respectable than you know who.

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