Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ended a rally in South Carolina Friday by recalling,approvingly, the probably-apocryphal tale of General Pershing's execution of Muslims.
… an obvious myth about how General John Pershing summarily executed dozens of Muslim prisoners in the Philippines with tainted ammunition during a guerilla war against the occupying United States.
“He took fifty bullets, or he dipped them in pig’s blood,” Trump said. “And he had his men load his rifles and he lined up the fifty people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the fiftieth person he said You go back to your people and you inform them what happened.’ And for 25 years there wasn’t a problem, and okay?”
The story appears to be a hoax spread via e-mail forwards,according to rumor tracker Snopes.com, with no evidence it occurred. The moral of the tale, or according to Trump: “We better start getting tough and we better start getting vigilant,and we better start using our heads or we’re not gonna gain a country, folks.”A lifetime of glory; a cup of sake.
Source: boingboing.net