Mickey Z

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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Remembering D-Day: 62 years ago today

(It’s 6-6-06)

The next time someone you know speaks of WWII and the greatest (sic) generation in hallowed tones, remind them that:

*The U.S. fought that war against racism with a segregated army.

*It fought that war to end atrocities by participating in the shooting of surrendering soldiers, the starvation of POWs, the deliberate bombing of civilians, wiping out hospitals, strafing lifeboats, and in the Pacific boiling flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts.

*FDR, the leader of this anti-racist, anti-atrocity force, signed Executive Order 9066, interning over 100,000 Japanese-Americans without due process...thus, in the name of taking on the architects of German prison camps became the architect of American prison camps.

*Before, during, and after the Good (sic) War, the American business class traded with the enemy. Among the US corporations that invested in the Nazis were Ford, GE, Standard Oil, Texaco, ITT, IBM, and General Motors (GM top man William Knudsen called Nazi Germany “the miracle of the 20th century").

*While the U.S. regularly turned away Jewish refugees to face certain death in Europe, another group of refugees was welcomed with open arms after the war: fleeing Nazi war criminals who were used to help create the CIA and advance America’s nuclear program.

(To read my 2004 article about D-Day, please click here.)

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Never mind this smokescreen...