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   From: Dr.Goldblatt@G00GLE.0RG   
      
   If D Day Had Been Reported On by Todays Leftwing Media   
      
   by William A. Mayer   
      
   Tragic French Offensive Stalled on Beaches (Normandy, France - June 6,   
   1944) - Pandemonium, shock and sheer terror predominate today's events   
   in Europe.   
      
   In an as yet unfolding apparent fiasco, Supreme Allied Commander, Gen.   
   Dwight David Eisenhower's troops got a rude awakening this morning at   
   Omaha Beach here in Normandy.   
      
   Due to insufficient planning and lack of a workable entrance strategy,   
   soldiers of the 1st and 29th Infantry as well as Army Rangers are now   
   bogged down and sustaining heavy casualties inflicted on them by   
   dug-in insurgent positions located 170 feet above them on cliffs   
   overlooking the beaches which now resemble blood soaked killing fields   
   at the time of this mid-morning filing.   
      
   Bodies, parts of bodies, and blood are the order of the day here, the   
   screams of the dying and the stillness of the dead mingle in testament   
   to this terrible event.   
      
   Morale can only be described as extremely poor--in some companies all   
   the officers have been either killed or incapacitated, leaving only   
   poorly trained privates to fend for themselves.   
      
   Things appear to be going so poorly that Lt. General Omar Bradley has   
   been rumored to be considering breaking off the attack entirely. As we   
   go to press embattled U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt's   
   spokesman has not made himself available for comment at all, fueling   
   fires that something has gone disastrously awry.   
      
   The government at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is in a distinct lock-down   
   mode and the Vice President's location is presently and officially   
   undisclosed.   
      
   Whether the second in command should have gone into hiding during such   
   a crisis will have to be answered at some future time, but many agree   
   it does not send a good signal.   
      
   Miles behind the beaches and adding to the chaos, U.S. Naval gunships   
   have inflicted many friendly fire casualties, as huge high explosive   
   projectiles rain death and destruction on unsuspecting Allied   
   positions.   
   The lack of training of Naval gunners has been called into question   
   numerous times before and today's demonstration seems to underlie   
   those concerns.   
      
   At Utah Beach the situation is also grim, elements of the 82nd and   
   101st Airborne seemed to be in disarray as they missed their primary   
   drop zones behind the area believed to comprise the militant's front   
   lines. Errant paratroopers have been hung up in trees, breaking arms   
   and legs, rendering themselves easy targets for those defending this   
   territory.   
      
   On the beach front itself the landing area was missed, catapulting   
   U.S. forces nearly 2,000 yards South of the intended coordinates, thus   
   placing them that much farther away from the German insurgents and   
   unable to direct covering fire or materially add to the operation.   
      
   Casualties at day's end are nothing short of horrific; at least 8,000   
   and possibly as many as 9,000 were wounded in the haphazardly   
   coordinated attack, which seems to have no unifying purpose or intent.   
   Of this number at least 3,000 have been estimated as having been   
   killed, making June 6th by far, the worst single day of the war which   
   has dragged on now--with no exit strategy in sight--as the American   
   economy still struggles to recover from Herbert Hoover's depression   
   and its 25% unemployment.   
      
   Military spending has skyrocketed the national debt into uncharted   
   regions, lending another cause for concern. When and if the current   
   hostilities finally end it may take generations for the huge debt to   
   be repaid.   
      
   On the planning end of things, experts wonder privately if enough   
   troops were committed to the initial offensive and whether at least   
   another 100,000 troops should have been added to the force structure   
   before such an audacious undertaking. Communication problems also have   
   made their presence felt making that an area for further investigation   
   by the appropriate governmental committees.   
      
   On the home front, questions and concern have been voiced. A telephone   
   poll has shown dwindling support for the wheel-chair bound Commander   
   In Chief, which might indicate a further erosion of support for his   
   now three year-old global war.   
      
   Of course, the President's precarious health has always been a   
   question. He has just recently recovered from pneumonia and   
   speculation persists whether or not he has sufficient stamina to   
   properly sustain the war effort. This remains a topic of furious   
   discussion among those questioning his competency.   
      
   Today's costly and chaotic landing compounds the President's already   
   large credibility problem.   
      
   More darkly, this phase of the war, commencing less than six months   
   before the next general election, gives some the impression that   
   Roosevelt may be using this offensive simply as a means to secure   
   re-election in the fall.   
      
   Underlining the less than effective Allied attack, German   
   casualties-most of them innocent and hapless conscripts--seem not to   
   be as severe as would be imagined. A German minister who requested   
   anonymity stated categorically that "the aggressors were being driven   
   back into the sea amidst heavy casualties, the German people seek no   
   wider war."   
      
   "The news couldn't be better," Adolph Hitler said when he was first   
   informed of the D-Day assault earlier this afternoon.   
      
   "As long as they were in Britain we couldn't get at them. Now we have   
   them where we can destroy them."   
      
   German minister Goebbels had been told of the Allied airborne landings   
   at 0400 hours.   
      
   "Thank God, at last," he said. "This is the final round."   
      
      
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