wont be long [Korea]

[Razer]

On 08/01/2017 03:59 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
>
> On 08/01/2017 06:49 PM, rooty wrote:
>> -------- Original Message -------- On Jul 31, 2017, 11:41 PM, James <
>> james at insiberia.net> wrote:
>> http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/politics/north-korea-ejection-test-submarine-activity/index.html
>>
>> cnn fake news
> All the propaganda about war with NK prompted me to finally learn
> something about Korean history.  I learned that the reason I did not
> know much is that post WWII Korean history is not fit for for U.S.
> public consumption:  It's the story of a U.S. colony "protected" from
> Commie labor unions by various atrocities.  I did not even know that
> South Korea remained U.S. property until 1988.
>
> Example:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_Uprising
>
>

> "The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless, even by the assessment
> of America’s own leaders. “Over a period of three years or so, we
> killed off — what — 20 percent of the population,” Air Force Gen.
> Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War,
> told the Office of Air Force History in 1984.
>
> Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said
> the United States bombed “everything that moved in North Korea, every
> brick standing on top of another.” After running low on urban targets,
> U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later
> stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops.
>
> Although the ferocity of the bombing was criticized as racist and
> unjustified elsewhere in the world, it was never a big story back home..."
>
>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-war-crime-north-korea-wont-forget/2015/03/20/fb525694-ce80-11e4-8c54-ffb5ba6f2f69_story.html

It never is. No one wants to hear about the atrocities being done in
their name.

Rr

Ps. Jill Stein and Medea Benjamin are in South Korea assisting the
anti-THAAD protesters and visiting a government that would really rather
have the US bow the fuck out of their affairs now.