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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (37078)	9/8/2010 11:54:11 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

"did General Eisenhower ever once ask the American people not to say or do anything that might upset the Germans because it would put our troops at risk?" Certainly did. There were whole PR campaigns (much of the archival material from which is in museums today) around various things such as "loose lips sink ships" and related themes such as patriotism. In World War I, in W.W. II, in Korean War, etc. NOTE: For the record I'm with Mayor Bloomberg on all of this. Anyone in America has the right to say whatever they want to (even if it's stupid and harms the nation), even the right to burn Bibles or Korans or Book of Mormon if they want to. (So long as they are burning books that are their's that is. :-) I never said any different. Just don't expect me to ever line-up along side any book-burner.....