@ggersh

Pearl Harbor and that Jewish people were being killed in the extermination camps. I read about that previously and also about how he let thousands of soldiers die in Pearl Harbor. What I didn't know was that the wars were being planned for almost a decade before they happened. Thank you, ggersh for the link to this article.

Pearl Harbor Day today is like Columbus Day 50 years ago. That is to say: most people still believe the hype.

Why does it matter? Because the legend of Pearl Harbor, re-used on 9-11, is responsible not for the destructive pro-war policies of the 1920s and the 1930s that brought World War II into being, but responsible for the permanent war mentality of the past 75 years, as well as for how World War II was escalated, prolonged, and completed.

“Disturbed in 1942,” wrote Lawrence S. Wittner, “by rumors of Nazi extermination plans, Jessie Wallace Hughan worried that such a policy, which appeared ‘natural, from their pathological point of view,’ might be carried out if World War II continued. ‘It seems that the only way to save thousands and perhaps millions of European Jews from destruction,’ she wrote, ‘would be for our government to broadcast the promise’ of an ‘armistice on condition that the European minorities are not molested any further. . . . It would be very terrible if six months from now we should find that this threat has literally come to pass without our making even a gesture to prevent it.’ When her predictions were fulfilled only too well by 1943, she wrote to the State Department and the New York Times, decrying the fact that ‘two million [Jews] have already died’ and that ‘two million more will be killed by the end of the war.’ Once again she pleaded for the cessation of hostilities, arguing that German military defeats would in turn exact reprisals upon the Jewish scapegoat. ‘Victory will not save them,’ she insisted, ‘for dead men cannot be liberated.’”

http://www.mintpressnews.com/76-years-of-pearl-harbor-lies/235375/

On August 18, 1941, Prime Minister Winston Churchill met with his cabinet at 10 Downing Street. The meeting had some similarity to the July 23, 2002, meeting at the same address, the minutes of which became known as the Downing Street Minutes. Both meetings revealed secret U.S. intentions to go to war. In the 1941 meeting, Churchill told his cabinet, according to the minutes: “The President had said he would wage war but not declare it.” In addition, “Everything was to be done to force an incident.”

@ggersh we have never been at peace since WW2 and before that in our nation's history. It's such a profitable business for some, irresistible to kick the greedy profits. The addiction for war is actually the intersection of two other factors: psychopathic, money-hoarding oligarchs and the desire for world domination. George Soros is relatively speaking a late-comer to this game.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/76-years-of-pearl-harbor-lies/235375/

On August 18, 1941, Prime Minister Winston Churchill met with his cabinet at 10 Downing Street. The meeting had some similarity to the July 23, 2002, meeting at the same address, the minutes of which became known as the Downing Street Minutes. Both meetings revealed secret U.S. intentions to go to war. In the 1941 meeting, Churchill told his cabinet, according to the minutes: “The President had said he would wage war but not declare it.” In addition, “Everything was to be done to force an incident.”

@detroitmechworks

There's a reason we used to have civilian control of the military.

Trump turned control of the military over to his generals. He said that they know how to do war and know what's needed to be done to win them. Then he changed how civilians were to be protected. This is why civilian casualties have gone way up.

Nothing against the Corp. They fight hard, are extremely good at what they do, and in my personal experience, respect other military who treat them with respect.

But I sure as hell wouldn't ask one to play nice. It ain't the way they roll.

There's a reason we have civilian control of the military. Respectfully, we should also have peace advisors for the president, but at the time of the constitution, the founders naively believed that nobody would WANT a war.