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Hitler did it better!!!!
John McCain kicked the evening off with a wild exaggeration by describing the allied invasion of Normandy as “the greatest invasion” in history.So a big neener neener neener and in your face to McCain (and all surviving D-Day vets, too).Such historical comparisons are always dangerous. In scale, the D-Day landings were far exceeded by Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union, in June 1941, and the Soviet invasion of Germany at the end of World War II.
A total of 326,000 allied troops took part in the initial D-day Landings in June 1944. By comparison, Hitler’s sent an army of 4.5 million men into the Soviet Union in June 1941 along a 1,800 mile front.
After getting over my initial disgust, my honest assessment is we're looking at a case of someone trying too hard to demonstrate their extensive knowledge of a topic (WWII history in this case) rather than trying to "debunk" McCain. But that's just a guess, so I'm also inclined to agree with Jules: "...in the end what it comes down to, Clintonianly speaking, is what you think “great” is."