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originally posted by: odzeandennz
a reply to: CaptainBeno
when and what did it take before the general population became aware water boarding torture treatments or even worse.... Abu ghraib... gitmo... vietcon torture methods..
sounds less like propaganda to me... more like contextual evidence.
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: SaturnFX
AND I assume you heard about WHY US troops started returning "favors" when the silly VC thought they could scare us by mutilation of our troops which ran off France from their own colony?
originally posted by: notsure1
originally posted by: odzeandennz
a reply to: CaptainBeno
when and what did it take before the general population became aware water boarding torture treatments or even worse.... Abu ghraib... gitmo... vietcon torture methods..
sounds less like propaganda to me... more like contextual evidence.
Really because it sounds to me like rocket man needs to die.
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: silo13
VALUES of "humanity" are considered JOKES to might makes right cultures,I have heard how they LAUGH, at how we feel about harming animals and women&children,THEY used it all the time ,to pull on US bleeding hearts that await the message .
originally posted by: SaturnFX
originally posted by: notsure1
originally posted by: odzeandennz
a reply to: CaptainBeno
when and what did it take before the general population became aware water boarding torture treatments or even worse.... Abu ghraib... gitmo... vietcon torture methods..
sounds less like propaganda to me... more like contextual evidence.
Really because it sounds to me like rocket man needs to die.
He certainly needs to go away, no doubt, but it needs to be less about annihilation of the entire country and more a few well placed sniper shots to him and his upper classmen while bombing the civilians with MREs and perhaps unlocked ipads with unfiltered internet access.
How many Americans, for example, are aware of the fact that U.S. planes dropped on the Korean peninsula more bombs — 635,000 tons — and napalm — 32,557 tons — than during the entire Pacific campaign against the Japanese during World War II?
How many Americans know that “over a period of three years or so,” to quote Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, “we killed off … 20 percent of the population”?
Twenty. Percent. For a point of comparison, the Nazis exterminated 20 percent of Poland’s pre-World War II population. According to LeMay, “We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea.”
Every. Town. More than 3 million civilians are believed to have been killed in the fighting, the vast majority of them in the north.
How many Americans are familiar with the statements of Secretary of State Dean Rusk or Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas? Rusk, who was a State Department official in charge of Far Eastern affairs during the Korean War, would later admit that the United States bombed “every brick that was standing on top of another, everything that moved.” American pilots, he noted, “were just bombing the heck out of North Korea.”
Douglas visited Korea in the summer of 1952 and was stunned by the “misery, disease, pain and suffering, starvation” that had been “compounded” by air strikes. U.S. warplanes, having run out of military targets, had bombed farms, dams, factories, and hospitals. “I had seen the war-battered cities of Europe,” the Supreme Court justice confessed, “but I had not seen devastation until I had seen Korea.”
How many Americans have ever come across Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s unhinged plan to win the war against North Korea in just 10 days? MacArthur, who led the United Nations Command during the conflict, wanted to drop “between 30 and 50 atomic bombs … strung across the neck of Manchuria” that would have “spread behind us … a belt of radioactive cobalt.”
How many Americans have heard of the No Gun Ri massacre, in July 1950, in which hundreds of Koreans were killed by U.S. warplanes and members of the 7th U.S. Cavalry regiment as they huddled under a bridge? Details of the massacre emerged in 1999, when the Associated Press interviewed dozens of retired U.S. military personnel. “The hell with all those people,” one American veteran recalled his captain as saying. “Let’s get rid of all of them.”
How many Americans are taught in school about the Bodo League massacre of tens of thousands of suspected communists on the orders of the U.S.-backed South Korean strongman, President Syngman Rhee, in the summer of 1950? Eyewitness accounts suggest “jeeploads” of U.S. military officers were present and “supervised the butchery.”
Millions of ordinary Americans may suffer from a toxic combination of ignorance and amnesia, but the victims of U.S. coups, invasions, and bombing campaigns across the globe tend not to. Ask the Iraqis or the Iranians, ask the Cubans or the Chileans. And, yes, ask the North Koreans.
Senior Russian and North Korean diplomats have met in Moscow to discuss the crisis on the Korean Peninsula, media report. It comes as Pyongyang’s war of words with Washington threatens to escalate into all-out conflict.
Oleg Burmistrov, Russia’s ambassador-at-large, met Choe Son-hui, director-general of the North American Department of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry in the Russian capital on Friday, TASS reported. They met behind closed doors.
Commenting on the issue on the eve of the meeting, Heather Nauert, US State Department spokesperson, said that Washington “can’t see that as a bad thing.”
“Diplomacy is our preferred approach. If Russia can be successful in getting North Korea to move in a better direction, we would certainly welcome that,” she told journalists on Thursday.
originally posted by: cavtrooper7
a reply to: SaturnFX
When your squad member is hung from a tree and disemboweled in front of you ,TEMPERS flare.
AS to the non professionalism,it is beyond denial.