XPost: alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk   
   From: a6ahlyv02@sneakemail.com   
      
   On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:55:00 -0400, in   
   alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk, mimus    
   bloviated:   
      
   >On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:42:24 +0000, pscissons wrote:   
   >   
   >> "mimus"  wrote in message   
   >> news:u6Gdnde5UoED2_vbnZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d@giganews.com...   
   >>   
   >>> I've decided, after long reflection, that the reason that Custer, in   
   >>> the face of the largest Indian concentration anyone had _ever_ seen,   
   >>> and with no orders whatsoever to take it on with just the Seventh   
   >>> Cavalry (he was supposed to _cooperate_ with another cavalry regiment   
   >>> as well as an infantry regiment, both within a few days' march), (1)   
   >>> sent Benteen with one battalion 'way off to the left into the hills and   
   >>> out of things, and (2) Reno with one battalion straight into the Little   
   >>> Big Horn encampment itself, and then (3) took two battalions for   
   >>> himself and (4) went racing on by, on exterior lines in rough and   
   >>> unknown country, the major major ruckus blowing up in the valley below,   
   >>> was (5) to get the iron Benteen out of the way so that (6) Reno and his   
   >>> battalion could be more or less quietly killed, all so that (7) Custer   
   >>> could get rid of an annoying and despised subordinate in Reno and (8)   
   >>> have the glory of "avenging" him.   
   >>>   
   >>> Call me cynical, but it's the only hypothesis that makes the slightest   
   >>> sense.   
   >>>   
   >>> (Unless it turns out he had neurosyphilis or something.)   
   >>   
   >> That sounds just like something the murderous bastard would do.   
   >>   
   >> Smee, who holds no affection for Custer   
   >   
   >You ought to read _The Benteen-Goldin Letters_, then-- you'd love 'em.   
   >   
   >Others might want to keep a bucket of ice handy.   
      
   You could get a crystal ball and ask them, personally.   
      
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