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Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
Of Dieppe...being a Monarchist, one doesn't criticize one's "family", does one? However, much as I despise the IRA and all it stands for, I can't begrudge the murder of Mountbatten by the IRA. It was that scion of a dysfunctional family who authored and authorized the Dieppe "raid". He is, therefore, a murderer in his own right, having caused the deaths of so many soldiers on 19 Aug 42.
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I've been here before elsewhere in the forum and said my piece on Dieppe, however, in my mind along with Jon's concise summary, attached to "murderer" I have arrogant, bombastic and incompetent.
R.