The True Nature of America’s War

by F. Berg

The true nature of America's war against Axis civilians is unimagined by the vast majority of Americans. To this day nearly sixty years after the war, Americans still think they were the "Good Guys." Tom Brokaw, an American TV anchorman, actually wrote a best-selling book entitled "The Greatest Generation. " The title referred to the perpetrators of the worst atrocities in all of human history. Shame on Brokaw and shame on America.

In 1978 I met a young Hungarian in New York City who told me about the American bombing of Budapest during the war. I had not even known that Budapest had been bombed by the Americans and I told him so. He assured me that Americans had, and that he had been there--but, then he also insisted that the bomber crews were extremely cowardly in their attacks. Rather than bomb the small but heavily defended military targets (defended with anti-aircraft guns), the American planes bombed the residential areas of Budapest instead. Some American planes were shot down and Hungarian gendarmes then protected the downed American crewmen from the wrath of the locals who wanted to simply kill the Americans on the spot with pitchforks and clubs if nothing else. He insisted that the gendarmes should not have protected the Americans at all; what they should have done instead was take the Americans to the scene of their crimes, where their bombs had actually fallen, tie them to stakes and burn them all alive!

I was shocked by his suggestion and I told him so. He looked straight into my eyes without blinking or hesitating and said that that was essentially what the Americans had done to them.

I have thought about that conversation many times over the years and that young Hungarian's horrible proposal. An eye for an eye--and a tooth for a tooth. Why not? I know that I could not have lit the fire to incinerate those Americans but then, I had not witnessed the bombing either. If I had actually seen the horrors that those happy-go-lucky Americans had wrought, I might have behaved differently.

In hindsight today after all I have learned about the war, my feelings have changed. The bomber crews were generally nothing more than ignorant slobs carrying out their orders--but, the high ranking generals and political leaders were something else. Those generals and leaders should have been burned at the stake. Eisenhower, LeMay, "Bomber" Harris, Truman, Churchill, and so many more deserved to be burned alive at a stake. That would have been an educational experience for them--and a valuable lesson for future generations of their ilk. That would have been a valuable lesson which might help prevent the far, far greater disaster which awaits us all if we as a species do not come to our senses about the glories and "greatness' of modern war.

Today Americans are surprised that so many Iraqis are so eager to kill them--even when it means that they, the Iraqis, will themselves die in the process. The Americans just don't get it--and probably never will. They should get on their knees and pray there is no God.

The true criminals—the only criminals—of WWII, were the Britons, Americans, their duped allies, and their Jewish ‘masters,’ who ruled over all of them like “gods” just as they do today. Hopefully, America and Britain will be overrun and destroyed for their war crimes against Hitler and the true Christians. If the Moslems or Mexicans want to commit genocide against Whites in America and Britain, well, it isn’t as though they do not deserve it.

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The Secret War

by David Wilson

Source: Guardian Unlimited

News that Channel 4 is to broadcast a controversial film called Mark of Cain, written by Tony Marchant, about British soldiers torturing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners in Basra in 2003, comes hard on the heels of a controversial book by the American sociologist Bob Lilly at long last finding a British publisher - Palgrave Macmillan.

Lilly's book, Taken by Force, was first published in France in 2003, and then in Italy in 2004, but initially failed to find either an American or British publisher. As one American publisher explained to Lilly, professor of sociology at Northern Kentucky University - "I wouldn't touch that book with a 10-foot long pole", given that the subject matter was concerned with the estimated 14,000 rapes committed by American soldiers in England, France and Germany between 1942 and 1945.

In short, at a time when "French fries" and "French toast" were being renamed "Freedom fries" and "Freedom toast" because, unlike us, the French refused to join the Bush administration's war in Iraq, the American public did not want to be told that their fathers, uncles and brothers who had fought in the second world war - that "Band of Brothers" as the historian Stephen Ambrose christened them, and whose status as the "greatest generation" had been cemented by Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan - had, in fact, been involved in some of the worst crimes on mainland Europe, including black-market trading, armed robbery, looting, rape and murder.

Indeed, secret wartime files that were made public in this country only in April 2006 disclosed that GIs committed 26 murders, 31 manslaughters, 22 attempted murders and more than 400 sexual offences, including 126 rapes in England, during 1942-45.

Far from being the "greatest generation", Lilly exposes the ugly underbelly of the US army's behaviour in Europe, and it is that ugly underbelly that links his historical account of the murders and rapes committed by American soldiers between 1942-1945 with Merchant's film.

For the simple reality of both Marchant's film and Lilly's book is this: that young men - soldiers - who are given power over others, and have a structure surrounding them that closes ranks at the first sign of criticism, a structure which is, in turn, enclosed within a popular and political culture where members of the public want to invest in their father's or their brother's or their husband's decision to become a soldier and go to war with nobility and sacrifice are, in fact, the preconditions for abuse, torture and totalitarianism. As such, it is the duty of film-makers and historians and sociologists to expose that abuse - no matter how "noble" the individual soldier's sacrifice might seem.

Even so, Bob Lilly faced a torrent of abuse when his book started to be reviewed in France and then news of the book's contents surfaced in the United States. He shared one of the many abusive emails with me: "Update: I just checked, and this guy Robert Lilly isn't an historian at all. He's a fucking sociologist ... sociology is a methodologically unsound, innately political, airy, unfounded, slippery and BS-laden field that ... deserves to slide into history as a blot on the face of 'social science'."

For all our sakes, I hope that it does not, and that sociology continues to uncover unpopular truths and dares to venture into territory that many of us would prefer to ignore.

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