one thing good about the Bush junta

[Bad Penny]

Curtis LeMay isn't in it.

Could you imagine how much of the world would be in flames by now if Rumsfeld and LeMay were playing patty-cake in the sandbox?




There have indeed been some horrifying right wingers at the controls in American history.

[nicknameless]

1. Never before have we had so many "horrifying right wingers"

at nearly ALL of the controls.


Welcome to DU, Bad Penny. :toast:

[sandnsea]

2. OTOH

He also directed the Berlin Airlift, so maybe if he'd been in charge of Katrina we wouldn't have had so many deaths there either.

But yeah, thank god he's not in charge of Iraq. :scared:

[Bad Penny]

3. I bet he griped alot under his breath when Truman had

him overseeing those airlifts. Saving a million people for LeMay was probably like having to drink pink lemonade for a whiskey drinker.

[Dunvegan]

5. LeMay would have probably choked on his own bile saving NOLA minorities.

Welcome, Bad Penny...:hi:

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay#Post-military

"LeMay was essentially forced into retirement in February 1965, and seemed headed for a political career. His highest political accomplishment was his selection as the Vice Presidential candidate on segregationist George Wallace's 1968 American Independent Party ticket."

...and...

"After the war, he headed the Berlin airlift, then reorganized the Strategic Air Command into an effective means of conducting nuclear war.

Others, however, characterized him as a belligerent warmonger (even nicknaming him "Bombs Away LeMay") whose aggressiveness threatened to inflame tense Cold War situations (such as the Cuban Missile Crisis) into open war between the United States and the Soviet Union."

LeMay was straight outta "Dr. Strangelove." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove )

Wikipedia on Dr. Strangelove:

"Also appearing in the film is George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson, a strategic bombing enthusiast who serves as the thinly-disguised avatar of General Curtis LeMay, the Air Force Chief of Staff who advocated a pre-emptive strike against bases in Cuba during the Missile Crisis of 1962, against Kennedy's better judgement. Sterling Hayden plays General Jack D. Ripper, who is equally (and rabidly) paranoid and patriotic; a young James Earl Jones plays bombardier Lieutenant Lothar Zogg; Keenan Wynn plays a Colonel "Bat" Guano, and Tracy Reed plays Gen. Turgidson's seductive secretary Miss Scott, the film's only female character, also known as "Miss Foreign Affairs".

[pretzel4gore]

4. dead'n'gone - like the dulles killers, john mccone, jehoover

and old roy cohn. dead as doornails. gone like alito's innocence :) and where to, you ask? :shrug: well, it AINT RULED BY LIBERALS! that's for sure :( in fact, one suspects that if weall could ask the likes of herman kahn or ann rand about the quality of rightwing mercy there (haha) they'd plead ignorance or 'unhappy childhoods' and for another chance(!)