John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“Was General Patton Assassinated by the US Government?
“The book and the article (in the Sunday Telegraph) appeared in 2008 and I had never heard a word about the story in any of my major American newspapers”
There have been whispers for years.
This does make the book sound persuasive.
Patton was a monumentally unsympathetic and brutal man, likely psychopathic, so there can be few tears for him.
Ready to pistol-whip anyone disagreeing with him, always wearing a pair of pearl-handled pistols with his uniform, and known for viciously hitting a soldier sick with shell shock and yelling at him that he was a coward.
Ready too, very much so, to attack the Red Army rather than accept the international agreements of Yalta.
Troops under him darkly joked that "Old Blood and Guts," as he was nicknamed, supplied the guts while they supplied the blood.
But this does re-emphasize the role of assassination and dark ops in modern American history, something many ordinary Americans would have a lot of trouble accepting.
Some other pretty clear cases stare at us through the haze of time, especially those of Jack and Robert Kennedy.
9/11?
