Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
The smell of napalm?
So, it looks like the good guys might have used napalm in Falluja:
http://snipurl.com/ayr2
If this surprises anyone, check out this excerpt from “The Seven Deadly Spins”:
In the Pacific theater-cheered on by the likes of Time magazine, which explained that “properly kindled, Japanese cities will burn like autumn leaves"-U.S. General Curtis LeMay’s Twenty-first Bomber Command, laid siege on the poorer areas of Japan’s cities. On the night of March 9-10, 1945, the target was Tokyo, where tightly packed wooden buildings were targeted by 1,665 tons of incendiaries. LeMay later recalled that a few explosives had been mixed in with the incendiaries to demoralize firefighters (96 fire engines burned to ashes and 88 firemen died). The attack area was 87.4 percent residential.
By May 1945, 75 percent of the bombs being dropped on Japan were incendiaries. LeMay’s campaign took an estimated 672,000 lives. In a confidential memo of June 1945, Brigadier General Bonner Fellers, an aide to MacArthur, called the raids, “one of the most ruthless and barbaric killings on non-combatants in all history.” Secretary of War Henry Stimson declared it was “appalling that there had been no protest over the air strikes we were conducting against Japan which led to such extraordinarily heavy loss of life.” Stimson added that he “did not want to have the United States get the reputation for outdoing Hitler in atrocities.”
LeMay (the Time cover boy above) admitted after the “good war” (sic):
“I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal. Fortunately, we were on the winning side.”
(BTW, “The Seven Deadly Spins” makes an excellent gift for anyone seeking to decode the propaganda and rediscover the concept of critical thought. To support indie publishing and place an order, click on the book cover image over there >>>)
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