2007-02-01 09:38:08 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Let's compare. It took how long, exactly to get from Omaha Beach to Berlin? And how long to take Baghdad?
Now, factor in the number of German insurgents fighting the Allied troops. Were there any?
Do you now see the difference?
2007-02-01 09:44:48 · answer #1 · answered by MoltarRocks 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The differences are that FDR didn't send troops to Normandy until they were fully prepared and supplied. He and his generals had extensive intelligence and were prepared for the worst. The D-Day invasion actually went even better than planned. That is the benefit of sound planning and patience. Bush on the other hand sent too few troops into Iraq poorly supplied and without any clue as to what they would face once they got there.
Also, FDR knew what the troops objectives were before he sent them into harms way. Bush just sent the troops into Iraq without any idea what they were going to do when they got there. He was too busy being measured for his little fly boy costume to care how long they would be there or how many of them would be killed or wounded.
2007-02-01 18:03:30 · answer #2 · answered by chimpus_incompetus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact is, we had real live military people planning the Normandy invasion, and politics or politicians played no part and had nothing to say about it. That hasn't been the case since then, or at least since the Korean conflict when Harry Truman fired Douglas MacArthur. This decision by a politician can be sited as the biggest reason we still have problems with N.Korea fifty four years later.
Had MacArthur been left to do his job, the Chinese would have gone scurrying home and hiding under rocks, and N.Korea would have been totally and unconditionally defeated.
Since then, all US conflicts have been controlled by politicians and not military minds. Since then, the US has not won a single conflict, unconditionally!
2007-02-01 17:54:42 · answer #3 · answered by briang731/ bvincent 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thank someone that in those days people actually knew the meaning of get the job done . It may have taken a few years to gear up but we held the advances of both Germany Italy and Japan .While we prepared to kick ash .
Bush is A cry baby wanna be man who has disappointed daddy his hole life .
He does not even have the testicles to finish this fight out and will be leaving this mess behind .
2007-02-01 17:47:19 · answer #4 · answered by -----JAFO---- 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What would have happened if the plan after D-Day was to "redeploy" the troops and allow the people of Europe to fight it out themselves?
2007-02-01 17:45:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They would have ran out of beach.
2007-02-01 17:40:57 · answer #6 · answered by Perplexed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ouch... feeling a little testy today, shorty?
2007-02-01 17:41:09 · answer #7 · answered by Amer-I-Can 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nothing,we would still be there.
2007-02-01 17:53:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋