andrel wrote:
> "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in
> a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave
> national emergency... Always there has been some terrible evil to
> gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it  by furnishing the
> exorbitant sums demanded.  Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem
> never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real."
>         -- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
> 
> (Possibly one of the offensive cookies)

I've got a great book on Harry S Truman.  You should see what he said 
about MacArthur.

Unfortunately, I'm too lazy to dig it out :(  Suffice it to say, he 
called the guy an idiot.

...Chambers

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