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Battle of the Bulge 60th Anniversary - Photo Tour of Bastogne

This week marks the 60th Anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Bulge, Hitler's last offensive in World War II, and the bloodiest battle of the war for the Americans.


Photo Tour of Bastogne

Interestingly, this battle started three years and a week after the beginning of the US war at Pearl Harbor. This is about the same amount of time since we've been engaged in IRAQ.

Donald Rumsfeld says you fight a war with the army you have. Well, in December 1944, we were fighting a war with an army that didn't exist in 1941, with weapons that didn't exist in 1941. Donald Rumsfeld is wrong, the United States has built armies in a short time in virtually every war in which it has been engaged. Donald Rumsfeld is too distracted by irrelevancies like missile defense and F-22 fighters, under circumstances where a fraction of the resources going into these legacy programs could protect the troops that we have on the ground today.

There are thousands of laid-off auto workers that could be manufacturing armored Humvees in (now) idle auto factories. Rumsfeld and Bush choose not to make it a priority.