Desert Storm General Norman Schwarzkopf dies

[Freeper]

TheMightyFavog (12,960 posts)

Desert Storm General Norman Schwarzkopf dies

 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121227/us-obit-schwarzkopf/?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=green

WASHINGTON — A U.S. official says retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991, has died. He was 78.

The official tells The Associated Press that Schwarzkopf died Thursday in Tampa, Fla. The official wasn't authorized to release the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

A much-decorated combat soldier in Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was known popularly as "Stormin' Norman" for a notoriously explosive temper.

He lived in retirement in Tampa, where he had served in his last military assignment as commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command. That is the headquarters responsible for U.S. military and security concerns in nearly 20 countries from the eastern Mediterranean and Africa to Pakistan.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022082217

For once the DUmmies aren't being disgusting.

cbrer (1,233 posts)
1. RIP Gen. Schwarzkopf

My old commander in Desert Shield/Storm

We used to jokingly refer to him as General Pimple. His name, translated from German is BlackHead. A damned fine field commander, and strategist.
Reply to this post
Back to top Alert abuse Link here Permalink
Response to cbrer (Reply #1)Thu Dec 27, 2012, 08:23 PM
loli phabay (2,173 posts)
13. i had the pleasure of meeting him on a couple of occasions in theater. always thought highly of him

Then Tavs shows up.

Taverner (51,278 posts)
14. Don't let the door hit you on your way out....

Sorry, he led an immoral war. One that spent BILLIONS and changed NOTHING.

The fact that a good man like Stormin Norman is no longer with us, and Tavs is still living seems wrong.

dems_rightnow (1,849 posts)
15. He did exactly what you would have done......

... had you been a general ordered to conduct military operations. He just did it better.

Taverner (51,278 posts)
16. "I vuz just following orders"

If I remember, that didn't work too well at Nuremberg

Looks like poor Tavs is the only DUmmy for now pissing on his grave, I imagine by morning others will join him.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Those poor, oppressed Ba'athists.


Slowly die alone in a machine that's on fire, Tavs.

[thundley4]

Gotta wonder how many of these tweets are from DUmmies.

http://twitchy.com/2012/12/27/demented-ghouls-descend-on-late-gen-norman-schwarzkopf/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter

Will Freeman@ConfusedAlotGuy
For those of you not old enough to remember Norman Schwarzkopf, he used to kill Muslim women and children before it was cool.

It's been very cool to kill every since 911.

[RobJohnson]

Response to Taverner (Reply #16)
Thu Dec 27, 2012, 08:36 PM
RomneyLies (2,429 posts)
18. Going all Godwin over a war that was authorized by the United Nations Security Council

Last edited Thu Dec 27, 2012, 08:38 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

is pretty ****ed up.

You might want to read up on UNSC Resolution 678.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_678

The Gulf War was 100% legal and in fact was REQUIRED under international law.

[txradioguy]

Tav is one of those people I'd rather just punch in the face than ever try to reason with or attempt to find any redeeming qualities.

[diesel driver]

Tav is one of those people I'd rather just punch in the face than ever try to reason with or attempt to find any redeeming qualities.

Same here, but I'm afraid I'd run the risk of knocking something loose in his empty cranium and his posts would start making sense.

IOW, he'd become a human being.

[txradioguy]

Same here, but I'm afraid I'd run the risk of knocking something loose in his empty cranium and his posts would start making sense.

IOW, he'd become a human being.

He's a Libtard diesel...he's incapable of becoming a human being at this stage of the game.

[BlueStateSaint]

Same here, but I'm afraid I'd run the risk of knocking something loose in his empty cranium and his posts would start making sense.

IOW, he'd become a human being.

That's why you'd need to swing a tire iron at his head, repeatedly.

[DefiantSix]

The fact that a good man like Stormin Norman is no longer with us, and Tavs is still living seems wrong.

God has a habit, if you watch carefully, off clearing the best of us from the splatter zone, right before he mashes the 'Smite' button.  The General was 78 years old.  Where would you rather he was; safely enfolded in the arms of the God he knew and loved for most of his life, or trying to dodge Molotov cocktails when the 4 horsemen of the DUmbass Apocalypse come riding through?

[movie buff]

Why am I not surprised that the Drunken DUchebag (My nickname for Taverner) is making heartless and dsgusting comments about Stormin' Norman, a man whose shoes Taverner isn't fit to lick the dog crap off of.
RIP to a true American hero.

[BlueStateSaint]

God has a habit, if you watch carefully, off clearing the best of us from the splatter zone, right before he mashes the 'Smite' button.  The General was 78 years old.  Where would you rather he was; safely enfolded in the arms of the God he knew and loved for most of his life, or trying to dodge Molotov cocktails when the 4 horsemen of the DUmbass Apocalypse come riding through?

I've noticed that, as well.  Maybe it's up to us to evade those Molotovs.

[DefiantSix]

I've noticed that, as well.  Maybe it's up to us to evade those Molotovs.

Or drop the Molotov-wielding DUmbasses before they get into dodging range with them.

[I_B_Perky]

Tav is one of those people I'd rather just punch in the face than ever try to reason with or attempt to find any redeeming qualities.

I'd rather he just off himself, TXR. Don't care how either. Easier on the knuckles.