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    Posted: 25-Jul-2005 at 18:36

I found yet another page of WWII "funnies"!  Some quotes that really made these people look like fools!

 
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Would... you be willing to share this page with the rest of us?
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terribly sorry, I thought I put it.

http://www.geocities.com/limeydvr/facts.htm
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When told that Britain and France had declared war on Germany, Adolf Hitler slumped in his chair, was silent for a moment, then looked at his generals and asked, "Well....what do we do now?"


I found this hilarious!
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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. - Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984

came across this little gem today.
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On December 3, 1941, Admiral Charles H. McMorris said, "Pearl Harbor will never be attacked from the air"!!!
"the people are nothing but a great beast...
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value."
-Alexander Hamilton
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And at the time of Pearl Harbor the top US Navy Command was called CINCUS (pronounced "sink us"),

I hate irony!

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This one did it for me most:

"You can't even shoot straight" yelled the Romanian dictator, Ion Antonescu (who hated the Russians with a passion) after two attempts to execute him by a Russian firing squad. A Soviet officer had to administer the coup de grace.
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Originally posted by Constantine XI

This one did it for me most:

"You can't even shoot straight" yelled the Romanian dictator, Ion Antonescu (who hated the Russians with a passion) after two attempts to execute him by a Russian firing squad. A Soviet officer had to administer the coup de grace.

Actually, I find that kind of admirable. The man knew he was dead anyway.
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Apparently when Winston Churchill was giving his famous speech: "We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them in the hills, [...] we shall never surrender", at one point he said to one of his aides in a low voice:

"We shall hit them over the head with beer bottles, because we don't have anything else"!
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"For Christ's sake, men-COME ON! Do you want to live forever?"
Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, 4 june 1918.
Leading Marines at Belleu Wood. 

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When confronted with the British quip "You Yanks are overpaid, oversexed and over here" The American reply was "and you Limeys are underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower". 
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