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doc03

(39,005 posts) Mon Mar 2, 2026, 04:39 PM 4 hrs ago

Hanging from a Cross of Iron/Eisenhower

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Hanging from a Cross of Iron/Eisenhower (Original Post) doc03 4 hrs ago OP

No one understands the cost of war better BarbD 2 hrs ago #1

I don't remember ever hearing his Cross of doc03 2 hrs ago #2

BarbD

(1,398 posts)

1. No one understands the cost of war better

Reply to doc03 (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2026, 05:50 PM

2 hrs ago

than a veteran -- especially a General who bore the thankless responsibility of having to calculate casualties. Eisenhower is also often quoted for his comment about "Beware the Military Industrial Complex."

doc03

(39,005 posts)

2. I don't remember ever hearing his Cross of

Reply to BarbD (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 2, 2026, 05:55 PM

2 hrs ago

Iron speech before. Thom Harmann played
it this afternoon. Imagine what all that money in his wars could have done so far.

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