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Tace

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Sun Jun 1, 2014, 12:54 PM Jun 2014

Greatest Generation, Good War, Blah-Blah-Blah | Mickey Z.


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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

May 19, 2014

As we approach not only another Memorial Day but also the 70th anniversary of D-Day, well, you know what that means: enforced nostalgia, chauvinism, and anniversary mania.

In the midst of our perpetual war vs. evil, America is yet again celebrating the original "good war." More than just a good war, in fact, corporate media shill Tom Brokaw deemed WWII "the greatest war the world has seen."

But the United States fought that war against racism with a segregated army.

It fought that war to end atrocities by participating in the shooting of surrendering soldiers, the starvation of POWs, the deliberate bombing of civilians, wiping out hospitals, strafing lifeboats, and in the Pacific boiling flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts.

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Greatest Generation, Good War, Blah-Blah-Blah | Mickey Z. (Original Post) Tace Jun 2014 OP
Great article. A lot of people, it would seem, are under the mistaken impression raccoon Jun 2014 #1

raccoon

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1. Great article. A lot of people, it would seem, are under the mistaken impression
Sun Jun 1, 2014, 05:25 PM
Jun 2014

that in WWII, the US was fighting against the persecution of the Jews in Europe.

As Mickey Z points out, it definitely wasn't.



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