"Gord Beaman" ) wrote in message . ..
(robert arndt) wrote:

"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message ...
"old hoodoo" wrote in message
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They were the bad guys, thats a given. That is not the issue.
The issue is, did we, the good guys, go down to the bad guys level.

Given that we didnt tie wounded POW's to trees
with barbed wire and use them for bayonent
pratctise I'd say no we didnt.

No, we just interned Japanese-Americans for years in camps behind
barbed wire at home.


You absolute imbecile...how could you possibly equate these
deeds?...certainly shows your sense of fair play doesn't it?...

Yes it does because it points to the hypocrisy of the US morality of
the time that claimed that the US is for freedom and liberty for all.
That certainly wasn't the case if you were a Japanese-American after
Pearl Harbor. We showed how the Nazis put people in concentration
camps... yet we did the same thing. People died in those camps and we
robbed those Americans of their dignity, freedom, liberty, their
lives, their business', and the pursuit of happiness.
Furthermore, we did some other unspeakable things like preventing many
Jews from emigrating to the US before WW2 and when we learned of the
death camps deliberately chose not to bomb the rail lines or attack
that hellish system at all or rescue any of those people.
Meanwhile in the US we treated German POWs better than negro soldiers
in uniform. Those that did try to fly were investigated in an attempt
to prove that negros could not fly aircraft nor operate complex war
machines. Medical studies akin to the Nazis racial hygiene laws were
performed in the US. Thank God the Tuskegee airman proved those
rascist theories wrong.
No, don't talk about US morality in WW2. We didn't even "give" the
British anything under "give us the tools we'll do the job". The US
Govt confiscated all British assets in the US and even sent a warship
to South Africa to collect British gold in payment for the old Liberty
ships. British companies in the US taken and we even demanded that
Britain share all of its secrets- radar, jet aircraft technology,
computer tech, and its A-bomb project "Tube Alloys" which Britain in
desperation agreed to. What did they get for helping with the US
Manhatten Project- nothing. Britain had to build their own bomb years
later.
So get off your high horse and address the America of the '40s without
the rose colored glasses on.
We were racist, anti-semetic, and greedy. But patriotism covers a
multitude of sins, right?

Rob