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06-10-11, 12:40 AM

Would not be surprised if Liz was the next to last British monarch since her brood has generally embarrassed the institution, perhaps beyond repair. It has been said that having an hereditary Head of State is like having hereditary dentists, it might work out for a while but eventually it will become very painful.

As for $0.02 CAD on Churchill he was an appallingly poor war leader and many of Britain's greatest defeats and military blunders can be laid directly at his door including:

The escape of SMS Goeben - 1914
Broad Fourteen's - 1914 (U-9 sinks armoured cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue)
Battle of Coronel - 1914
The Dardinelles - 1915
Gallipoli - 1915
Loss of HMS Courageous - 1939
Norway - 1940
Tobruk - 1941
Greece and Crete - 1941
Force Z - 1941 (Prince of Wales and Repulse sunk off Malaysia)
Singapore - 1942
Dieppe - 1942

With a handful of notable exceptions he surrounded himself with non-entities and sycophants and never accepted responsibility for any of his decisions that went wrong, preferring to throw a suitable military man under the bus instead.

He wanted to go to war in Turkey over Chanak in 1922, advocated bombing rebelling Iraqi villages with mustard gas and allowed several million Indians to starve to death in 1943-44 by exporting vast quantities of Indian grain to the British Isles in support of the war effort after the harvests had failed. He was very much a man of his times, self-promoting, imperialist and dogmatic.

That said, he was a brilliant parlimentarian and orator. If there is an entity known as "Western Civilization", he is owed a priceless debt as Hitler's most implacable enemy.

Favorite Churchill quote:
"I know History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

Favorite quote about Churchill (attributed to Lord Balfour but possibly apocryphal):
"Winston's gone and written some great big book about how he won the War and he's calling it The World Crisis."

06-10-11, 12:40 AM	#3
Randomizer Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Would not be surprised if Liz was the next to last British monarch since her brood has generally embarrassed the institution, perhaps beyond repair. It has been said that having an hereditary Head of State is like having hereditary dentists, it might work out for a while but eventually it will become very painful. As for $0.02 CAD on Churchill he was an appallingly poor war leader and many of Britain's greatest defeats and military blunders can be laid directly at his door including: The escape of SMS Goeben - 1914 Broad Fourteen's - 1914 (U-9 sinks armoured cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue) Battle of Coronel - 1914 The Dardinelles - 1915 Gallipoli - 1915 Loss of HMS Courageous - 1939 Norway - 1940 Tobruk - 1941 Greece and Crete - 1941 Force Z - 1941 (Prince of Wales and Repulse sunk off Malaysia) Singapore - 1942 Dieppe - 1942 With a handful of notable exceptions he surrounded himself with non-entities and sycophants and never accepted responsibility for any of his decisions that went wrong, preferring to throw a suitable military man under the bus instead. He wanted to go to war in Turkey over Chanak in 1922, advocated bombing rebelling Iraqi villages with mustard gas and allowed several million Indians to starve to death in 1943-44 by exporting vast quantities of Indian grain to the British Isles in support of the war effort after the harvests had failed. He was very much a man of his times, self-promoting, imperialist and dogmatic. That said, he was a brilliant parlimentarian and orator. If there is an entity known as "Western Civilization", he is owed a priceless debt as Hitler's most implacable enemy. Favorite Churchill quote: "I know History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Favorite quote about Churchill (attributed to Lord Balfour but possibly apocryphal): "Winston's gone and written some great big book about how he won the War and he's calling it The World Crisis." Last edited by Randomizer; 06-10-11 at 12:58 AM.