"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes."
He meant against Iraqis!
And he is a revered war hero?
"Britain honors surviving pilots in WWII attack 70 years ago; Churchill’s ‘the few’ lauded by his daughter" by Jill Lawless, Associated Press | August 21, 2010
LONDON — Between July and October 1940, Royal Air Force fighter squadrons fought Luftwaffe bombers that pounded Britain’s cities and airfields as preparation for a planned invasion....
But Germany’s failure to defeat the young, undertrained, and outnumbered Royal Air Force crews and conquer Britain’s skies helped save the country from Nazi occupation.
Honestly, I've had it up to here hearing and reading about Nazis.
Next!
Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s rousing House of Commons speech of Aug. 20, 1940, in which the prime minister said of the air crews that “never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.’’
Actor Robert Hardy read the speech yesterday outside Churchill’s wartime headquarters, at a ceremony attended by Churchill’s daughter, Lady Mary Soames, wartime singer Vera Lynn, and some of the dwindling band of Battle of Britain veterans — now only about 100 strong. The ceremony was followed by a flyover of World War II Spitfire and Hurricane fighters.
The “few’’ speech was one of several stirring addresses by Churchill that helped galvanize British resolve in the darkest days of the war. In May 1940, he vowed to fight the Nazis with “blood, toil, tears, and sweat.’’
Almost makes you want to go fight another World War, huh?
After France fell to German invaders the next month, Churchill told lawmakers that “the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin,’’ and urged his country to fight so that “if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for 1,000 years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’ ’’
Phil Reed, director of the Churchill War Rooms, said the August speech epitomized Churchill’s “ability to capture in the most stirring way the spirit of a nation fighting for its existence.’’
“Now part of the general folklore of the battle, the speech is today considered a defining moment of the conflict and one of Churchill’s most emotive and stirring pronouncements.’’
He is also the jerk that came up with the Iron Curtain descending over Europe that is viewed as the beginning of the Cold War.
Nowadays the MSM is telling us it is an Iron Veil!
