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POPSWaterboarding Demo in Congress !? To Prove not Torture!? "In the war crimes tribunals that followed Japan's defeat in World War II, the issue of waterboarding was sometimes raised. In 1947, the U.S. charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for waterboarding a U.S. civilian. Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. "'All of these trials elicited compelling descriptions of water torture from its victims, and resulted in severe punishment for its perpetrators,' writes Evan Wallach in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law." Begs the question. How could he be charged in WW2 with the WAR CRIME of waterboarding? The recipient was a civilian seemed to be the point? Well so are the detainees in Guantanamo Bay. If there were POWs then it would NOT be a WAR CRIME but as Bush says they are not POWs then it is a WAR CRIME.
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POPSVietnam: 40 yearsago: Iraq: 40 years from now: Iran? "Hours after Japan's surrender in World War II, Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh declares the independence of Vietnam from France. The proclamation paraphrased the U.S. Declaration of Independence in declaring, "All men are born equal: the Creator has given us inviolable rights, life, liberty, and happiness!" and was cheered by an enormous crowd gathered in Hanoi's Ba Dinh Square" Lest you forget. There is so much Americans still cannot know of the truth of Vietnam, wiped from the history books. too painful to know the truth even now. Check who was present for the Deceleration of Independence!!!
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POPSLituania: The Jewish story is forgotten Only the story of the Soviet occupation is remembered, yet there wer THREE TIMES more deaths during the Nazi occupation. Vilnius, capital of Lithuania and once known as the Jerusalem of the North, hardly remembers its Jewish dead.
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POPSA pic from A war this is not taken from "Wag the Dog" movie. it is time we, the human society, will create a kind of life, where these kind of pics will not be found in our album anymore .. ?? ..
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POPSWarsaw Ghetto/Gaza Strip: Nazis/Zionist. Both = DEATH Collective punishment = Death of children Democracy = Hamas Holocaust = Palestinians Innocent Jews = Innocent Arabs Nazis = Zionists While fascist Zionist Minister mouthing off equals higher and higher fuel prices for all. Only oil companies and bankers gain.
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POPSWhen Journalist LIE, Innocence Dies! Rarely since the WW2 has a people been so vilified as the Palestinians. Rarely has a people been so frequently excused and placated as the Israelis. Israeli embassies are now buttonholing editors around the world, saying that it's not fair to call Israel's PM "hard-line". And the reporters are falling into line. ... R Fisk I think he should know.
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POPS Why military might does not always win: Star "You can use brute force to kill terrorists or insurgents, but at some time you need acquiescence and compliance from the population, or every time you kill an insurgent or terrorist, he will be replaced." The study's war model claims to be accurate in 80 per cent of the conflicts. Ominously, and despite some gains in Anbar province, the current U.S. mission in Iraq has a probability of success of just 20 per cent. (Vietnam, by comparison, had a 22 per cent chance of success.) There are obvious similarities between Iraq and Afghanistan – an enduring insurgency, an unstable "democratic" government.
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POPSWW1 Kid Soldiers: B&W pics "After the WW2 very young boys were still able to enlist in the American services. This went on until the early fifties. Nowadays the USA is the only country where an association called Veterans of Underage Military Service (VUMS) exists. It was formed in 1991." "Buckles enlisted in the American army at age 16 in 1917. During his summer vacation from school he went to the Marine Corps recruiting office to enlist, told them he was 21, but he was turned down: too small. He tried the Navy: too flatfooted. He then went to the Army and they accepted him. "The old sergeant advised me that the Ambulance Service was the quickest way to get to France because the French were begging for ambulance services". In France he served at several locations. After Armistice Day he was assigned to a POW escort company to return prisoners back to Germany. In WW2 while working in the Philippines, the Japanese army seized him and he stayed in a POW camp for more than 3 years.
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POPSSM Hersh: Remember, The Coming Wars, Now IRAN
Bush and national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities’ strategic analyses and covert operations to a degree unmatched since the rise of the post-WW2 national-security state. He has an aggressive, ambitious agenda for using that control-against Iran and against targets in the ongoing war on terrorism The CIA will continue to be downgraded and increasingly serve as one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon put it, as “facilitators” of policy. The war on terrorism would be expanded and effectively placed under the Pentagon’s control. Bush has signed a series of findings and executive orders authorizing secret commando groups and other Special Forces units to conduct covert operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as 10 nations. “The neocons say negotiations are a bad deal,” a senior official of the IAEA. “And the only thing the Iranians understand is pressure. And that they also need to be wh
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POPS Smoking hurts mind... Stalin, Chirchill led their nations through WW2 with puffing pipes, in WW1 American black soldiers have crawled to the night attacks on European battlefields with lighted handmade cigars, even beign good targets for enemy... Smoking hurting not only mind and body, but families and nations. Remember peace pipes of American Indians?
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POPSThe pig story during WW2 cont.... It was very smart of her, she knew that if the germans took the pig she would have nothing to feed her family for a very long time.
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POPSPolish WW2 War Criminal Escapes to Israel He was a member of the State Security and the commandant of the Stalinist-era concentration camp Zgoda in Świętochłowice, Poland. Of 6,000 inmates that he was responsible for, that 1,695 people died under him "by deliberately giving low food rations, systematically torturing and mistreating prisoners, and failing to take sanitary precautions." Zgoda camp was set up by the Soviet NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB , after the Red Army entered southern Poland. The camp was later handed over to the Communist Polish secret service, the notorious Urząd Bezpieczeństwa. In March 1945, Morel became a chief of the labour camp.
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POPS60th anniversary: BERLIN Blockade / Airlift Something BIG that Americans really could be proud of ... if only. It is ironic now that the great BLOCKADE BUSTERS of 1948 are now the principles in the implementation of a similar BLOCKADE of Gaza, supporting THE fascist Zionist power! Now Russia is a reluctant co-conspirator with the US, the EU and UN party to this pending atrocity against the democratically elected power.
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POPSZionist dictate to Catholics now!!!? Israel and the Vatican only established full diplomatic relations in 1993 and since then there have been other disagreements, over issues including the taxing of church property in and around Jerusalem and permits for Arab Christian clergy to travel through the occupied West Bank. Pope John Paul II visited Israel in 2000, the first pope to do so, but Pope Benedict XVI appears to have no plans to visit in the near future. On Sunday, the Israeli president, Shimon Peres, said the row over the photo caption should not prevent a papal visit, though he too was critical of Pius. "We have reason to believe that Pius XII didn't do enough to save Jewish life. I don't want to pass judgement," Peres said. "If there is evidence then it should be checked carefully. The visit to the holy country is nothing to do with anger or disputes. It's holy all the time. It is holy for all of us."
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POPSWW2 Medal of Honor Winner detained at Airport Ok, this is old, But the point is that if these people at the TSA and screening as so stupid in not knowing what the Congressional Medal of Honor is, then how the frack are the going to catch something that is a threat.
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POPSA rant against Web 2.0 Andrew Keen argues that we need an elite, without it we are doomed ! Ummm, the calling for an elite, "requiring an authoritative voice",I say, be careful what you wish for. (did not someone try it, leading to WW2) The computer is the instrument of the modern state, it is also the tool for freedom from the dictator.
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POPSSarkozy's roots call for generosity on immigration today I don't suppose Sarkozy had it easy growing up as a child of immigrant parents in France after WW2, but the point is still valid - France let them in and gave them an opportunity of a better life; it behoves those who benefit from liberality to afford similar opportunity to others in distress now.
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POPSWiesenthal Blackmail Backfires. Irish President The SWC has nothing to do with the Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal and has no expertise in the restitution of looted art, he says. "There are 11 Jewish organisations who have this expertise but SWC is not one of them." The centre already had "form" on Ireland, having clashed with Mary Robinson during her tenure as UN human rights supremo as well as attacking Ireland's role on the UN Security Council, both in relation to Israel. "The allegations given to them about the Hunt Museum would have been manna in their campaign against Ireland." The "sensational and calculated manner" in which Dr Samuels first announced his suspicions in an open letter at a time when Ireland held the EU presidency was "both undiplomatic and offensive," she writes. "The decision to challenge the Irish authorities in a sort of blackmail game was unprofessional in the extreme." : "There has been much talk about moral obligation during this inquiry. It is, of course, important to recover and return items unla
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POPSWW4? Don’t Flatter Them - John Derbyshire Derbyshire grants the Cold War as worthy of the moniker "WW3", but all this talk of World Wars 4, 5, & 6 is "nonsense on stilts." Leave it to grumpy, old Derbyshire to keep raining on the parade of his fellow young, flighty, reactionary neocons at the National Review with heavy doses of realism, skepticism and conservatism...in the true sense of the word. This is not a war, and by calling it one, we flatter the jihadists far beyond their deserts. No jihadist nation — let alone any jihadist group — can field an army against us. We are frightening ourselves with bogeymen.
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POPSUsing WW2 Primary Documents in the Classroom 100 milestone historical documents on using primary documents pertaining to American history. Included are some ww2 related documents are given in their original format and with background to help teachers instruct their students in analyzing the war. Included is the Day of Infamy address given on Dec 8th, 1941 and the announcement of the D-day Invasion.
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POPSWW2 Allied Posters (USA) nice website in conjunction with NARA (US National Archives) shows an array of world war two posters used to boost morale & encourage military service by men and women and support in general for the Allied cause
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POPSEphemera of WW2 as Primary Documents : Identity Cards During the Nazi Occupation of Poland as other countries under the Nazi regime identity documents was required to be carried at all times. This is an example of one for female Polish worker in the Gotenhafen naval facility, a seaport 15 miles/23km from Gdansk (Danzig). Gotenhafen was the Germanic name the Nazis gave to Gdynia as they did in order to erase the past of many of the towns & villages they invaded. The Soviets took control of the city in 1945 after the German invaders destroyed most of the city in their retreat.
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