WaPo Wants You To Know, McCain Lied About Normandy Invasion Being ‘Greatest’
Hey, WaPo … Never mind we kicked Gerry’s ass in WWII, and Ivan’s in The Cold War …
That’s all you fucking got, huh?
Fact Check
Washington Post’s live fact check finds Obama out-and-out wrong on several counts but has to parse and pick apart assiduously to find McCain at fault. Whatever. A telling exercise. Where it gets bizarre is in the grand finale, this astonishing McCain bash:
John McCain kicked the evening off with a wild exaggeration by describing the allied invasion of Normandy as “the greatest invasion†in history.
Such historical comparisons are always dangerous. In scale, the D-Day landings were far exceeded by Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union, in June 1941, and the Soviet invasion of Germany at the end of World War II.
A total of 326,000 allied troops took part in the initial D-day Landings in June 1944. By comparison, Hitler’s sent an army of 4.5 million men into the Soviet Union in June 1941along a 1,800 mile front.
If you really want to get into it, the Siegfrieds and the Ivans did it across land. The western allies did it over water. Universally regarded as the greatest sea invasion of all time, in contention for the greatest single technological and organizational operation, massive and highly complex, conducted under strict secrecy, cloaked by highly successful deception. Different. Greater. And on unconditional greatness alone, it’s important to note that the jackbooted sausage-eating bucketheads, several months in, when it started snowing and they were all still in their summer uniforms and not in Moscow as planned, weren’t feeling so great any more. Schadenfreude ensued. As for the Soviets, they didn’t launch an invasion of Germany as much as they pushed multiple fronts forward over a period of two years. Sort of like we did after we invaded Normandy.
We could dicker over the semantics of what makes an invasion, and technically, maybe the Washington Post is right. But in the end what it comes down to is, Clintonianly speaking, what you think “great†is. Greatness is in fact conditional. The Nazis wanted to own Russia, and killed every Jew and most of the other Russians they met. If the Washington Post thinks that’s great, so be it. The Russkies, meanwhile, raped every woman they met, and enslaved half of Europe for 45 years. Washington Post informs us that’s also greater than Normandy, where the Americans, British and Canadians went ashore to liberate. Along with Germany and the rest of western Europe.
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