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For all of his personal faults and shortcomings - and there were many - General George S. Patton was a leader. He won battles. In fact, as a battlefield commander his contributions probably more than any other American general led to the Allied victory in World War II. Patton knew how to lead. He knew how to get the most out of his men to achieve victory. Did General Patton ever make any mistakes? Sure he did, as we all make mistakes. But General Patton learned from his mistakes and then he put...

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Coleus You Can e mail me at Coleus 3 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, 4 as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him. All Christian should argue for the integrity of every individual person made in the image of God, and that the gospel, if were going to be faithful to that gospel and faithful to biblical anthropology, requires us to be...

Secretary donald rumsfeld was using an auto pen, using a machine or stamp or something, using some sort of machine to automatically sign the more than 1,000 condolence letters that the bush administration had had to send to families of soldiers who had been killed in iraq. they were machine signed, form letters. the pentagon initially denied it and then they repeatedly denied it, but david hackworth turns out had him dead to rights. he had great sources. he had interviews with a dozen family mem...

Magazine and he started to write a syndicated column for king features. in november 2004, a year and a half into the iraq war, david hackworth in one of his syndicated columns, he broke the news that donald rumsfeld was using an auto pen, a machine or stamp to automatically sign more than 1,000 condolence letters that the bush administration had to send to families of soldiers who had been killed in iraq. they were machine signed, form letters. pentagon initially denied it and then they repeated...

After they decided on anonymity. once david hackworth broke the story, other news organizations were able to follow his reporting, track down those letters. in fact, he was proven to be right. it was november 2004 when hackworth wrote that column. the following month, december 2004 it was leo shane writing "stars and stripes," ivan med a medina, a new york resident, whose twin brother irving told "stripes," quote, to me its an insult not only as someone who lost a loved one but also as someone w...

The following month, december 2004 it was leo shane writing at "stars and stripes," "ivan medina, a new york resident, whose twin brother irving was killed in a road bombing in 2004, told stars and stripes, to me it is an insult not only as someone who lost a loved one but also as someone who served in iraq." illinois betty sullivan whose son was killed in 2003, she was incensed when she and her sons wife and her grandchildren all received the exact same condolence letter with the apparently sta...

Didnt have the same feeling about what the bush administration had just bumbled into them there and what hackworth discovered they were doing. who thought that was a good idea? you might have disbelieved it when you first heard the reporting. once you found out it was true, callousness and impersonal treatment of soldiers killed in battle and their families back home. it is a hot third rail, not just in american politics but in american values, american ethics. the george w. bush administration ...