June 6 The Longest Day

But in the end, it was only slightly more difficult than Grenada. And, he didn't finish the job by marching straight into Bahgdad

 

Tactically that's bad because, in addition to ceding the element of surprise, even for five minutes, then you have our troops having to comb over the bomb damage. Would slow them down (it was hard enough to gain ground given the topography), give the enemy time to organize, and counter-strike. A mistake made repeatedly in World War I (not with bombers, but with artillery) that no one wanted to repeat.

 

A thousand times this.
As for Bush 1, I'm pretty sure the other politicians prevented him from going to Baghdad.

 

Hey, I'm a Navy vet ... I'm all about some shore bombardment ... don't know nothing about climbing over bomb craters!

 

Why did he need to march to Baghdad to finish the job?

The goals of war were met. Was not worth putting our troops
at further risk.

 

Someone advocating marching into Baghdad as a definition of military success? That's someone who missed a really long war somewhere along the line.

 

Awesome!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2650882/D-Day-veteran-89-reported-missing-care-home-staff-told-travel-France-Normandy-escaping-joining-friends.html

 

Well, it helps when 97 percent of the world is behind what you're doing --- if not actually fighting alongside you --- instead of saying "What the fuck are you doing? This is NONE of your concern."

 

And officially you did not have The UN to screw things up.
The democrat party had not yet become the anti war party.

 

That is awesome.

 

Lamest hyperbole I heard on radio today was, "The soldiers were so close, they could smell the schnitzel on the Germans' breath."

The purple prose is especially overdone for war stories, which is not needed for D-Day. It was hell. Do not let language get in the way when telling stories.

 

It was planned, but D-Day was too cloudy for bombers to see the beaches.