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Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support. My point was we need to come together as one nation. We are all Americans. That should transcend partisan politics. -Scott Kelly on Twitter
originally posted by: Fallingdown
I’ll just let the man speak for himself .
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life ”
Winston Churchill
"I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."
Winston Churchill-
Poison gas
Churchill has been criticised for advocating the use of chemical weapons - primarily against Kurds and Afghans.
"I cannot understand this squeamishness about the use of gas," he wrote in a memo during his role as minister for war and air in 1919.
"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes," he continued.
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir… striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace," Churchill said of his anti-colonialist adversary in 1931.
"Gandhi should not be released on the account of a mere threat of fasting," Churchill told the cabinet on another occasion. "We should be rid of a bad man and an enemy of the Empire if he died."
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: Butterfinger
Shouldnt Yuri Gagarin be your hero?
originally posted by: Butterfinger
Cant believe this hasnt been posted, I did search however.
Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support. My point was we need to come together as one nation. We are all Americans. That should transcend partisan politics. -Scott Kelly on Twitter
www.washingtontimes.com... article
Disgraceful, bent to the whims of trolls. Twitter no less, the bastion of free thought and stuff?
The only Astronaut Ive met, was a hero until now.