The Hiroshima Myth. Unaccountable War Crimes and the Lies of US Military History By Dr. Gary G. Kohls Global Research, July 31, 2013, Region: Asia Theme: Crimes against Humanity In-depth Report: Nuclear War
In the pitiful history lessons that were taught by my uninspired/bored history teachers (which seemed to be mostly jocks) came from patriotic and highly censored books where everything the British and US military ever did in war time was honorable and self-sacrificing and everything their opponents did was barbaric. Everybody in my graduating class of 26 swallowed the post-war propaganda in our history books. It was from these books that we learned about the “glorious” end of the war against Japan.
Of course, I now know that I had
been given false information, orchestrated by war-justifying militarists
(and assorted uber-patiotic historians) starting with General Douglas
MacArthur. MacArthur successfully imposed total censorship of what
really happened at Ground Zero. One of his first acts after taking over
as viceroy of Japan was to confiscate and/or destroy all the
photographic evidence documenting the horrors of the atomic bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Following the vehement, orchestrated, reactionary outrage emanating from right-wing veterans groups and other patriot groups (including Newt Gingrich’s GOP-dominated Congress that threatened to stop federal funding of the Institute), the Smithsonian was forced to censor-out all of the unwelcome but contextually important parts of the story. So again we had another example of politically-motivated groups heavily altering real history because they were afraid of revealing “unpatriotic” historical truths that might shake the confidence of average Americans in our leaders, sort of like the near-total media black-out about the controlled demolitions of the three World Trade Center buildings on 9/11/01 that killed thousands of innocent people and unleashed the dogs of war against innocents in Afghanistan (explore www.ae911truth.org for the documentation of that assertion).
Nagasaki on August 9, 1945
The Smithsonian historians did have a gun to their heads, of course, but in the melee, the corporate-controlled mainstream media – and therefore the public – failed to learn an important historical point, and that is this: The war could have ended in the spring of 1945 without the summer atomic bombs, and therefore there might have been no Okinawa bloodbath for thousands of American Marines and soldiers. Also there would have been no need for an American land invasion of Japan – the basis of the subsequent propaganda campaign that justified the use of atomic weapons on defenseless civilian populations and meets the definition of an international war crime and a crime against humanity.
American intelligence, with the
full knowledge of President Truman’s administration, was aware of
Japan’s desperate search for ways to honorably surrender months before
Truman gave the fateful order to incinerate Hiroshima.
Truman and his advisors knew
about these efforts, and the war could have ended through diplomacy by
simply conceding a post-war figurehead position for the emperor Hirohito
– who was regarded as a deity in Japan. That reasonable concession was –
seemingly illogically – refused by the US in their demands for
unconditional surrender, initially demanded at the 1943 Casablanca
Conference between Roosevelt and Churchill and reiterated at the Potsdam
Conference between Truman, Churchill and Stalin. Still, the Japanese
continued searching for an honorable peace through negotiations.
After Japan did surrender, MacArthur allowed the emperor to remain in place as spiritual head of Japan, the very condition that coerced the Japanese leadership to refuse to accept the humiliating “unconditional surrender” terms.
So the two essential questions that need answering to comprehend what was going on behind the scenes are these:
1) Why did the US refuse to accept Japan’s only demand concerning their surrender (the retention of the emperor) and
2) why were the atomic bombs used when victory in the Pacific was already a certainty?
“The Japanese, in a military sense, were in a hopeless strategic situation by the time the Potsdam Declaration (insisting on Japan’s 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 D. Eisenhower, in a personal visit to President Truman a
couple of weeks before the bombings, urged him not to use the atomic
bombs. Eisenhower said (in a 1963 interview in Newsweek):“It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing . . . to use the atomic bomb, to kill and terrorize civilians, without even attempting [negotiations], was a double crime.”There are a number of factors that contributed to the Truman administration’s decision to use the bombs.
1) The US had made a huge investment in time, mind and money (a massive 2 billion in 1940 dollars) to produce three bombs, and there was no inclination – and no guts – to stop the momentum.
2) The US military and political leadership – as did many ordinary Americans – had a tremendous appetite for revenge because of Pearl Harbor. Mercy wasn’t in the mindset of the US military or the war-weary populace, and the missions against Hiroshima and Nagasaki were accepted – no questions asked – by most of those folks who only knew the sanitized, national security version of events.
3) The fissionable material in Hiroshima’s bomb was uranium. The Nagasaki bomb was a plutonium bomb. Scientific curiosity was a significant factor that pushed the project to its completion. The Manhattan Project scientists (and the US Army director of the project, General Leslie Groves) were curious about “what would happen if an entire city was leveled by a single uranium bomb?” “What about a plutonium bomb?”
The decision to use both bombs had been made well in advance of August 1945. Accepting the surrender of Japan was not an option if the science experiment was to go ahead. Of course the three-day interval between the two bombs was unconscionably short if the Hiroshima bomb was designed to coerce immediate surrender. Japan’s communications and transportation capabilities were in shambles, and no one, not even the US military, much less the Japanese high command, fully understood what had happened at Hiroshima. (The Manhattan Project was so top secret that even Douglas MacArthur, commanding general of the entire Pacific theatre, had been kept out of the loop until five days before Hiroshima.)
4) The Russians had proclaimed
their intent to enter the war with Japan 90 days after V-E Day (Victory
in Europe Day, May 8), which would have been Aug. 8, two days after
Hiroshima was bombed.
Indeed, Russia did declare war on Japan on August 8
and was advancing eastward across Manchuria when Nagasaki was
incinerated. The US didn’t want Japan surrendering to Russia or sharing
the spoils of war.
An estimated 80,000 innocent
civilians, plus 20,000 weaponless young Japanese conscripts died
instantly in the Hiroshima bombing. Hundreds of thousands more suffered
slow deaths from agonizing burns, radiation sickness, leukemias, anemias
and untreatable infections for the rest of their shortened lives.
Generations of the survivor’s progeny were also afflicted with horrible
radiation-induced illnesses, cancers and premature deaths, still going
on to this very hour.
So the official War Department-approved version of the end of the war in the Pacific contained a new batch of myths that took their places among the long lists of myths that Americans are continuously fed by our corporate, military, political and media opinion leaders, the gruesomeness of war being changed to glorification in the process. Among the other censored out realities include what really happened in the US military invasions and occupations of the countries of North Korea, Iran, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Lebanon, Granada, Panama, the Philippines, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Colombia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, etc. This list doesn’t cover the uncountable secret Pentagon/CIA covert operations and assassination plots in the rest of the world, where as many as150 nations contain American military bases (permission lavishly paid for by bribery or threats of economic sanctions).
But somehow most of us still hang on to our shaky “my country right or wrong” patriotism, desperately wanting to believe the cunningly-orchestrated myths that say that the war-profiteering multibillionaire corporate elite (and their politicians, military leaders and media talking heads who are in their employ) only work for peace, justice, equality, liberty and “making the world safe” for predatory capitalism.
While it is true that the US military has faced down the occasional despot, with necessary sacrifice from dead and mortally-wounded (in body, mind and spirit) American soldiers and veterans, more often than not the rationalization for going to war are the same as those of the “godless communists”, the anti-American “insurgents” and “freedom fighters” who want to convince us Yankees to just go home where we belong.
August 6 and 9, 1945 are just two more examples of the brain-washing that goes on in all “total war” political agendas, which are always accompanied by the inevitable human slaughter that is euphemistically labeled “collateral damage” or “friendly fire”.
It might already be too late to
rescue and resuscitate the humanitarian, peacemaking America that we
used to know and love. It might be too late to effectively confront the
corporate hijacking of liberal democracy in America. It might be too
late to successfully bring down the arrogant and greedy ruling elites
who are selfishly dragging our world down the road to our destruction.
The rolling coup d’etat of what I call Friendly American Fascism may
have already accomplished its goals.
But there may still be some
hope. Rather than being silent about the wars that the war-mongers are
provoking all over the planet (with the very willing assistance of the
Pentagon, the weapons industry and their lapdogs in Congress), people of
conscience need to start learning the whole truth of history, despite
the discomfort we will feel (cognitive dissonance) when the truth can’t
be ignored any more.
We need to start owning up to America’s uncountable war crimes that
have been orchestrated in our names. And then we need to go to the
streets, publicly protesting and courageously refusing to cooperate with
those who are transforming America into a criminal rogue nation that
will eventually be targeted for downfall by its billions of suffering
victims outside our borders, similar to what happened to Nazi Germany
and Fascist Japan.
Doing what is right for the whole
of humanity for a change, rather than just doing what is profitable or
advantageous for our over-privileged, over-consumptive and unsustainable
American way of life, would be real honor, real patriotism and an
essential start toward real peace.
WHAT SAY YOU RAMONA? BEATRICE, I SAY THE AMERICAN NATION IS FAILED.WHY DO YOU SAY THIS MINNIE!
BECAUSE BEATRICE THE POISONS SATURATING THE 'AMERICAN' BRAIN AND THE WHOLE BRAIN OF 'HUMAN' HAS TAKEN THE CRIMINAL INSANITY TO WHERE WE ARE.
THIRD GENERATION 'ZIONISTS', 'JEWS' PRETENDING TO BE A RELIGIOUS PRACTICE OF 'CHOSEN' HUMAN EARTH BEINGS. WHAT A FABRICATION OF MONUMENTAL FRAUD.
Harry Truman’s Corruption By Jews
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HARRY TRUMAN’S CORRUPTION BY JEWSBy Brother Nathanael Kapner, Copyright 2008-2010
Brother Nathanael Kapner; PO Box 1242; Frisco CO 80443
bronathanael@yahoo.com E-mail: Sources: Iron Curtain Over America, John Beatty;
What Price Israel?, Alfred Lilienthal
HARRY TRUMAN IS REVERED BY JEWS for his immediate recognition of the State of Israel on May 14 1948 only 11 minutes after David Ben-Gurion’s Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv.
Even six days prior to this, Truman had met with the de facto Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, who presented Truman with a Jewish Menorah for his recognition.
In his book, “Jewish Religion - Jewish History,” Israel Shahak records that Harry Truman had been abandoned by everyone when he came to run for President. Then an American Zionist brought Truman $2 million dollars in cash in a suitcase aboard his whistle-stop campaign train.
“That’s why our recognition of Israel was rushed through so fast,” John F Kennedy had remarked to Gore Vidal. And thus occurred yet another Zionist event in the corruption of American politicians.
The “Israel” that Truman “recognized” was a Soviet-supplied “military entity” that in May of 1948 seized Arab citrus & olive groves throughout the fertile northwestern coast of Palestine.
Following this was a series of bombings of: 1) The British Officers Club in Jerusalem; 2) The Acre Prison; 3) The Semiramis Hotel. The climax of all of this Zionist brutality was the assassination of the UN Mediator for Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte.
Seeking Jewish votes for the upcoming election, Truman promised 16,000 Jews at Madison Sq Garden in October of 1948:
— “We need to support the people of Israel who have created a state with the best traditions and the highest standards of Western civilization.” — (New York Times of October 29 1948, Warren Moscow)
One wonders how Truman squared the “best traditions” and “highest standards of Western Civilization” with Israel’s thievery, brutality, and assassination squads…
TRUMAN WAS TOLD by his White House aide Clark Clifford that he would lose his 1948 election bid for his 2nd term in office unless he immediately recognized the Jewish state upon their declaration of Statehood. Already in 1945 in a meeting with Middle East American diplomats who pleaded with Truman not to heed Zionist urgings, Truman said:
— “I’m sorry gentlemen but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism. I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents” — Here.
And although Secretary of State General George Marshall opposed recognition of Israel warning Truman that recognition would lead to untold troubles in the future, Truman considered “votes” more important than America’s best interests. Indeed money and influence talks - especially from Truman’s Zionist advisors:
Abraham Feinberg: This Zionist was Chairman of a New York hosiery manufacturer Kayser-Roth Corporation & of American Bank and Trust & Israel Bonds. Feinberg led many Democratic fund-raising drives. During Truman’s 1948 whistle stop campaign Feinberg arranged that Jewish donors gave of their largesse at each stop. Most likely it was Feinberg who gave the $2 million dollars in a suitcase to Truman on one of his stops. Eddie Jacobson: This Zionist
was from Kansas City Missouri who was once partners with Truman in the
haberdashery business. Jacobson introduced the future President of
Israel Chaim Weitzman to Truman in a “secret Zionist meeting” ($$$) on March 18 1948 two months before Truman’s recognition. Jacob Blaustein: This Zionist was a member of President Truman’s National Advisory Board. In the early 1900’s Blaustein was partners with his father who developed the first anti-knock motor fuel calling it Amoco. By 1948, at the age of 56, Blaustein was in a good position to help Truman ($$$) as a member of his Advisory Board. And That Politicians Listen To Jesus Christ Not Money!
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And: “President Andrew Jackson Vs Jewish Bankers” Click Here
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