- Dear Gary,
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- Your essay reveals that the Japanese were attempting
to surrender before the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were dropped on unsuspecting
civilians. However ... it was much worse than that.
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- The US Strategic Bombing Survey reveals that the Japanese
began peace feelers shortly after their defeat at Midway in April, '42.
The Japanese figured they had 16 months from Pearl Harbor to beat the US,
without one setback. Midway was the setback that guaranteed their
eventual surrender.
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- George Marshall, Roosevelt's army chief of staff, would
not hear of any peace attempts. As we now can see, the whole purpose
of Pearl Harbor, from the Roosevelt POV, was to get us into a war with
Germany. A secondary purpose was to install Mao Tse-tung in China,
which demanded the annihilation of the Japanese and the selling out of
Chiang Kai-shek. We can see now the idea behind the Communization
of China - the transfer of US jobs to Chinese slavers.
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- Peace feelers continued through '42, '43 and '44, when
the blood was really flowing in the Pacific. They tried through the
Soviets, the British and the Siamese. Marshall would not consider
anything but Unconditional Surrender, knowing the Japanese would not give
up Hirohito to the hangman, which didn't happen anyway. But this
was always threatened, deliberately driving the Japanese to desperate acts
to protect their god-leader. All well understood by the psychiatrists
in FDR's gang. Even after Okinawa, Marshall said the desperate attempts
at surrender were "premature." Going through the list of
terrible battles in the Pacific while the Japanese were frantically attempting
to end the war is mind-numbing.
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- Marshall was taking his orders from Harry Hopkins, who
has been revealed as Stalin's most important agent in the US. Stalin
never declared war on the Japanese and wanted the fighting to continue
so that he could occupy Manchuria when he was ready, and when the Japanese
were no longer able to resist. He didn't declare war on Japan until
the Hiroshima bomb was dropped. Marshall still wouldn't accept
surrender until the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The anticipated
effects of atom bombing were too interesting to forego.
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- Meanwhile, Hopkins had arranged for the transfer
of the atom bomb plans and an entire bomb-manufacturing industry from
Oak Ridge to Moscow via the airlift command at Great Falls, Montana (see Major
George Racey Jordan's Diaries).
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- There has to be greater understanding of the reasons
behind the military partnership between the US and the Soviet Union from
1941 to 1945, when the New World Order was established. Soviet Communism
was saved and then spread around the world, and this was the main purpose
of FDR, which was why he desperately needed the Japanese to attack Pearl
Harbor, because Hitler would not fall for his provocations in the Atlantic,
as the Japanese did in the Pacific. But few Americans understand
how revolting and outrageous were FDR's provocations against the Japanese,
which reached a crescendo in his attempts to get them to attack.
He and his psychiatrists knew that this was the only way Americans could
be tricked into supporting another world war in twenty years.
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- This is exactly what the Zionists behind Bush did when
they came up with their "Project for a New American Century,"
in which they wrote that the American people would not support their aggression
against Islam without a second Pearl Harbor. It is clear that they
engineered the WTC attack, just as their uncles engineered the Hawaiian
attack. Only the modern guys actually did the WTC because they couldn't
take any chances on their stooges blowing it, as they did in
'93.
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- George Marshall forced Mao Tse-tung on the
Chinese in 1949. He gave Ho Chi Minh the northern
half of Indochina in1945. Millions of Chinese and Vietnamese
and thousands of Americans perished as a result. But this was
exactly what our government wanted, just as the carnage in the Middle East
is exactly what is wanted now.
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- How low will we go?
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- --J B Campbell
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- Whitewashing Hiroshima - The Uncritical
- Glorification Of American Militarism
- By Gary G. Kohls
- 8-3-6
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- Back in 1995, the Smithsonian Institute was preparing
an honest but aggressive display dealing with the 50th anniversary of the
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Amid much right-wing reactionary
wrangling, from various ultrapatriotic veterans groups all the way up to
the Newt Gingrich/GOP-dominated Congress, the Smithsonian was forced to
eliminate that painful but historically important part of the story
the Japanese civilian perspective. So again we had another example of powerful
politically conservative groups influencing public policy and messing
with history because they didn't have the courage to face up to unpleasant
historical truths.
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- The historians did have a gun to their heads, of course,
but in the mêlée, the media and therefore the public ignored
a vital historical point. And that is this: The war would have ended soon
without the atomic bombs, and thus there wouldn't have been a bloody American
invasion of Japan. American intelligence, with the full knowledge of President
Truman, was fully aware of Japan's desperate search for ways to honorably
surrender weeks before the order was given for the Holocaust that was Hiroshima.
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- American intelligence data, revealed in the 1980s, shows
that a large-scale US invasion (planned for no sooner than November 1,
1945) would have been unnecessary. Japan was working on peace negotiations
with the Allies through its Moscow ambassador in July of 1945. Truman knew
of these developments, the US having broken the Japanese code years earlier,
and all of Japan's military and diplomatic messages were being intercepted.
On July 13, 1945, Foreign Minister Togo said: "Unconditional surrender
(giving up all sovereignty) is the only obstacle to peace." Truman
knew this, and the war could have ended by simply conceding a post-war
figurehead position for the emperor a leader regarded as a deity
in Japan. That concession was refused by the US, the Japanese continued
negotiating for peace, and the bombs were dropped. And after the war, the
emperor remained in place. So what were the real reasons for 1) the refusal
to accept Japan's offer of surrender and 2) the decision to proceed with
the bombings?
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- Shortly after WWII, military analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote:
"The Japanese, in a military sense, were in a hopeless strategic situation
by the time the Potsdam demand for unconditional surrender was made on
July 26, 1945." Admiral William Leahy, top military aide to President
Truman, said in his war memoirs, I Was There: "It is my opinion that
the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material
assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated
and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful
bombing with conventional weapons. My own feeling is that in being the
first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians
of the Dark Ages." And General Dwight Eisenhower agreed.
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- Truman proceeded with the plans to use the bombs, but
he never officially ordered the Nagasaki bomb that followed Hiroshima only
three days later. There are a number of factors that helped Truman make
his decision.
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- 1 The US had made a huge investment in time, mind
and money ($2,000,000,000 in 1940 dollars) to produce the bombs, and there
was no inclination and no guts to stop the momentum.
- 2 The US military as did its citizens
had a bloodthirsty appetite for revenge because of Pearl Harbor. Mercy
wasn't the mind-set of these professed Christians, and the missions were
accomplished with glee.
- 3 The Nagasaki bomb was a plutonium bomb and Hiroshima's
was uranium. Scientific curiosity certainly was a major factor for the
mass slaughter of the Nagasaki community. The decision to use both bombs
had obviously been made well in advance. The three day interval was unconscionably
inadequate Japan being in shambles in its communications and transportation
capabilities and besides, no one, not even the Japanese high command,
fully understood what had happened at Hiroshima.
- 4 The Russians had proclaimed their intent to enter
the war with Japan 90 days after V- Day, which would have been Aug. 8,
two days after Hiroshima. Indeed, Russia did declare war on August 8 and
was marching across Manchuria when Nagasaki was incinerated. The US didn't
want Japan surrendering to anybody else, especially a future enemy, so
the first nuclear "messages" of the infantile Cold War were sent.
Russia indeed received less of the spoils of war, and the two superpowers
were mired in mutual moral bankruptcy and economic near-bankruptcy for
the rest of the century.
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- An estimated 80,000 innocent civilians plus 20,000
young essentially weaponless Japanese conscripts died instantly in
the Hiroshima bombing. Hundreds of thousands suffered agonizing burns,
leukemia and infections for the rest of their shortened lives, and generations
of the survivor's progeny inherited horrible radiation-induced illnesses,
cancers and premature death. What has been covered up is the fact that
12 American Navy pilots, their existence well known to the US command,
were incinerated in the Hiroshima jail on Aug. 6.
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- The 75,000 Nagasaki victims were virtually all innocent
civilians, except for the inhabitants of an allied POW camp near Nagasaki's
ground zero. They were incinerated, carbonized, then evaporated, by a scientific
experiment carried out by obedient, unaware soldiers. The War Dept. knew
of the existence of the POWs but, when informed, simply replied: "Targets
previously assigned for Centerboard (atomic bomb mission code name) remain
unchanged."
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- So the end of the war in the Pacific was just one more
myth in a long list of myths Americans have been fed by our military and
civilian leaders, war being glorified in the process. A short list of some
of the others includes the censored-out military invasions of (and usually
CIA-orchestrated atrocities in) Korea, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Granada,
Panama, Iraq, the Philippines, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala,
Haiti, Colombia, etc, etc. But somehow we still hang on to our shaky "my
country right or wrong" patriotism, desperately wanting to believe
that our nation only works for peace, justice and democracy and not mainly
for capitalism. While it is true that the US military has faced down a
few despots, with natural heroism and sacrifice from the dead and now dying
American soldiers, more often than not our methods of rationalizing the
atrocities of war are identical to those of the "godless communists"
or "evil empire" on the other side of the battle line. August
6 and 9, 1945 are just two more examples of the brutalization of innocent
civilians in "total war," whether it is called "regretful
collateral damage" or "friendly fire."
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- The time has come for Americans to stand up for real
justice and peace (rather than the unaffordable "armed truces"
we have all over the world) by acknowledging the whole truth of history
and owning up to the numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity that
have been perpetrated by American militarism in the last half-century.
And then we need to start accepting the consequences of our leadership's
actions, like the courageous and honorable people we claim to be. Doing
what is right for the whole of humanity for a change, rather than just
what is advantageous for us over-privileged Americans, would be real honor,
real patriotism and an essential start toward real peace.
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- August 3, 2006
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- Gary Kohls, MD is an associate of Every Church a Peace
Church and a practicing physician in Duluth, MN
- gkohls@cpinternet.com
- Copyright © 2006 Gary G. Kohls, MD
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- Originally noticed at
- http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/kohls7.html
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