| JazzyJeez said: I don't know you, I don't know your sense of humour, and there was literally no indication in any of your prior posts that this was a sarcastic post, so your schoolyard dig asking that I better not be British for realising this is pathetic. As for looking at wiki, I can assure you I didn't, not that it matters because all you did was expand on what I wrote. Ps. Thanks for the grammar lesson, I'll try to pay even less attention next time. |
"Heck, the whole reason why Patton wanted to get to Berlin before the British was so that Montgomery wouldn't surrender to the Germans."
You honestly thought that was serious? You don't have to know me to know my sense of humor, you just have to read that in order to see how ludicrous and over the top it is!
You'd have to be thick to think it wasn't a joke or at the very least question if it was meant as a joke.
To go all pedantic...OK.
As for what you said, Churchill didn't have any real say in the matter other than as an advisor. The decision on how to proceed militarily was in the hands of General Eisenhower as he was the Supreme Commander. The only person who had greater control would have been President Franklin Roosevelt, who as President was Commander in Chief of the US Military. So what Churchill thought and whether or not Patton agreed with it mattered very little. Patton agreed with Churchill because Patton believed it was militarily important for someone other than the Russians to get to Berlin first. He agreed with Churchill because with his all, he believed the Russians to be dangerous. In fact, for Patton to concede such a prize to Montgomery who was Patton's rival throughout the US involvement in the war, demonstrates how important Patton felt about it.
I'm not expanding on what you copied from Wikipedia, I'm putting it into context.









