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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (363171)	2/24/2003 10:50:04 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The myth of the "National Redoubt: In 1945 the Allied Armies crossed the Rhine and headed at top speed to surround the Ruhr industrial complex and reach the west bank of the Elbe. At this time, Eisenhower's staff at SHEAF began a mass panic over an obscure piece of German propaganda about huge underground facilities in Bavaria, filled with tanks, fresh troops, and limitless supplies, where the Nazi's could hold out for years, until the alliance with Stalin collapsed, and the war-weary Western powers would be forced to make peace. Having been badly burned by the German offensive in the Ardennes Forest in December, Bedell Smith's clerks fed Ike ghost story after ghost story about the mythical "National Redoubt". SHEAF finally turned Third Army south, whence it drove through Saxony and eastern Bavaria, into Austria, and toward Prague, at which point the remnants of the Third Reich's leadership, under Doenitz and Jodl, surrendered to SHEAF, ending the war on May 7, 1945. No evidence of a "National Redoubt" was ever found. The left and their media lap dogs love to talk about a potential military disaster in Iraq, leading to "bloody street fighting" and "heavy American casualties", as part of their subtle argument against the war and in favor of America's enemies in the ME and Europe. They are, in effect, creating a new "National Redoubt" myth in an attempt to move the polls away from Bush and away from support for this critical step in the long war against world Islam that lies ahead. Let's us not make the error Eisenhower did when he gave his clerks excessive credibility over his ground commanders, who saw a defeated and demoralized enemy as all that stood between them and Berlin...