Lindsey Graham on CBS claims D-Day was "a failure"

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63. Wow. That's pretty out there.

I have a map, here at home, that shows the progress allied forces made from D-Day forward to the end of the war.
By the 15th of September, if we disregard small pockets of German forces in Brittany and along the channel coast,
the Wehrmacht had been pushed all the way across France to the German border. In other words, at something
like 100 days after the landings, France was for all practical purposes liberated. I'm sure the French were pretty
happy with this "failure."

If there was *any* failure in the Overlord operation, and this is pretty small beans in my humble opinion, there
was no contigency plan for "what if the operation is TOO successful?" The allied advance ground to a halt at the end
of September because the logistical supply line that stretched from Normandy all the way across France couldn't
get gas and ammunition up to the front lines fast enough. The was the result of two factors: first, the allies bombing
the bejeezus out of the French rail system to keep the Germans from using it for their own supply chain, and two,
nobody on the allied side thought they would reach the German border until D+330.

Lindsay Graham is an ignoramus. He's far from the only one in politics, but this is just so over the top I felt I
set out a few facts. Here is an umbrella page on Overlord at Wikipedia, you can spider out from there to read
about the rest of the European campaign of 1944-45: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Overlord.