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Response to a reader
who said: “Lets not forget the American Generals who in the past have suggested
dropping nuclear weapons on Vietnam and N. Korea before...not sure if they
suggested anywhere else.”
The Pentagon madmen did a great deal more than that.
President Kennedy was presented a detailed plan by the
Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs for a massive first strike on the Soviet Union. He left
the briefing, in his own words, feeling sick at his stomach.
They also developed plans for doing the same thing with
Mao's China.
Israel's nuclear arsenal does not exist without all kinds of
complicity, too.
And when Israel had a dirty deal with Nationalist South
Africa to supply them help with their small nuclear arsenal (removed with the
fall of the Nationalist government) in return for considerations in the supply
of strategic materials and minerals, can anyone believe the CIA did not know?
There was even a totally secret joint Israeli-South African
nuclear test in the ocean spotted by spy satellite.
Remember, before the pressure against Apartheid really
developed a head of steam, the US protected and encouraged South Africa as a “bulwark
against communism.”
Of course, America’s dropping two atomic bombs on civilians
- with a series of a dozen cities actually on a list of planned targets - was
one of the 20th century's great atrocities.
But the bombing horrors of America go way beyond the
nuclear.
At the last stages of the war with Japan, there wasn't, by
America's own military assessments, a single primary or secondary target left
standing in the country.
And much of it done with massive fire-bombings, making the
final atomic bombings a gratuitous horror. Vast numbers of people died horribly
without the atomic bombs.
The lessons learned by the Pentagon kept being applied. In
Korea, the bombing was more horrific than we have ever been told by government.
The Pentagon used carpet bombing of cities for three years. General Curtis
LeMay bragged that the US killed twenty percent of the entire population of
North Korea.
In Vietnam, the US killed an estimated 3 million with carpet
bombing, napalm, and early cluster bombs.
Since they also bombed neutral Cambodia and destabilized it,
they are surely responsible for the "killing fields" which followed
and saw a million perish.
There have been dozens or smaller operations, but Iraq of
course was another very large one. Cluster bombs were widely used, mangling
children and others.
White phosphorus incendiaries were used, and the use of
depleted uranium munitions has left the country with a cancer-inducing killer
cloud of dust.
About a million died in Iraq, and after-effects are still
killing, just as buried landmines and cluster bombs and a sea of Agent Orange
are still killing in Vietnam.
