Idiot o'reilly blames 82nd Airborne for SS atrocity...

Sorry if already posted, but I just saw this on C&L. That "moran" blamed Americans for the Malmedy massacre, where SS troops killed unarmed Americans. Have the veteran groups been notified of this anti-American bastard?

:wtf:

they venture into bars and lounges...get into discussions and they spew Billys crap thinking its true...when its not...and ...voila...big fight and sometimes violence when they meet peeps who know better.

Billy is a DANGER to his brain washed flock/listeners/audience

was just part of war. He kept trying to steamroller Clark by throwing out a succession of examples, like Mi Lai.

It was absolutley clear that he had NO idea about the 82's being the victim, rather than the perpetrator.

Fox has purged the damning language, leaving his statement ambiguous. Pathetic.

Does he not know his history? Criminy...

falafel.

Wesley Clark about this!

Seriously, back in the late 40s, "Tailgunner Joe" managed to insert himself into an investigation of the Malmedy Massacre (carried out by SS troops under Joachim Peiper, just for the record) and managed to so muddy and screw up the proceedings that some guys who shouldn't have, walked.

But ol' Fightin' Joe got his name in the papers and got hisself reelected, so whaddyaknow?

And now Captain Liverspot is following in the footsteps of the man he apparently so fervently admires. :puke:

he got his justice in 1976 when he was killed in an attack on his house in France.

Thanks for the update, slor! :toast:

... Have ALWAYS know this guy to be a un-American f*ck!

:grr:

Bill O'reilly is 6' 6" tall. My reply, "Damn! I didn't know they could stack shit that high?"

Needless to say, we have not talked politics since. ;)

I love to see how tough he is when someone is trying to kill him..

Asshat was pushing the idea that Abu Gharib was both A.Mostly college hazing by a few bad apples, or B.A great American tradition practiced in all wars.His examples were My Lai in Viet Nam (Clark pointed out that Courts Martial proved it was NOT the status Quo) and Malmedy with no frame of reference in WWII...Appearantly thought it was committed by US troops, proving himself to be as clueless as he is Bush apologist....

Try this:

http://69.73.163.60/oreillysucks/viewtopic.php?t=2781

Blaming the American 82nd airborne for the Malmady massacre... where did he get his history degree, he needs to have it revoked.

First of all, I'd like to say that General Clark is as usual a paragon of decency and clarity in the face of... idiocy.

Not only is O'Reilly a moron, I think he's getting worse. The statement he made is this:

"General, you need to look at the Malmedy massacre in World War II and the 82nd Airborne."

Clark rightly didn't want to discuss that matter, which has little application to the present, so he shut O'Reilly down.

If one were to give O'Reilly more credit than he is due, one might conjecture that he was attempting to make the following argument: after the massacre at Malmedy, an order came from Eisenhower's headquarters which stated that German SS and fallschirmjaeger troops were to be shot on sight.

But again, even if one were to give O'Reilly the credit of knowing that much, he's still a dumbass. That order also takes into account the abortive "Operation Greif," in which fallschirmjaeger (paratrooper) troops were dropped behind American lines to disrupt the rear and, supposedly, to assassinate high-level allied commanders. The brainchild of special operations expert Otto Skorzeny, Operation Grief included English-speaking soldiers dressed in captured American uniforms. Both sides in the war considered uniform-stealing to be tantamount to spying, a capital offense.

World War II was a rotten, shitty war, and the Malmedy repercussions did little more than add a legalistic cast to what was already pretty well established by the Allies on the Atlantic side (ask the Canadians about the Hitler Youth Division sometime), and practically codified by the Americans in the Pacific. The reason why Clark didn't want to discuss Malmedy is because the Americans learned from World War II (and specifically Malmedy) that being decent to prisoners was an excellent way of getting otherwise dangerous enemy troops to surrender. We do it because it works, and General Clark rightly told Dild O'Reilly just as much.


{Edit: a crucially misplaced "not")

You read the altered transript. He actually said, "General, you need to look at the Malmedy massacre in World War II and the 82nd Airborne WHO DID IT." No amount of "conjecture" can change that.