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I thought I’d post this, it is part of a speech by a rather famous politician, and is referring to another equally famous politician. I won’t say just yet who they both are because you’ll appreciate the irony more if you read it before you know who’s who. It isn’t one of his most famous speeches so I’ll be interested to see if anyone else has seen it before. It is, as said, extraordinarily ironic:


‘He is the most bloodthirsty or amateurish strategist in history… For over five years this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something that he could set on fire… As a soldier he is a bad politician and as a politician an equally bad soldier… The gift (he) possesses is the gift to lie with a pious expression on his face and to distort the truth until finally glorious victories are made of the most terrible defeats… one of the most hopeless dabblers in strategy, thus managed to lose two theatres of war at one single blow. In any other country he would be court-martialled. His abnormal state of mind can only be explained as symptomatic either of a paralytic disease or of a drunkard’s ravings…’


Does anyone have any equally real speeches or statements that now just look like complete fiction?
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