Picture precedents

Jewish World Review ^ | May 11, 2004 | Raoul Lowery Contreras

[SJackson]

In 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt personally ordered that photographs of dead American soldiers floating off New Guinea beaches not be published by Life Magazine. In 1944 a group of American soldiers executed German prisoners of war in Sicily. Also in 1944, an all-Black Army division ran away from a battle in Italy.

Republican congressmen did not call for President Roosevelt's impeachment, or for the impeachment of his Secretary of War for these criminal acts.

In 1949, Secretary of State Dean Acheson announced that Korea was outside the defensive perimeter of the United States. Six months later, North Korean Communists invaded South Korea and killed over 35,000 Americans in less than three years.

In 1950, American soldiers massacred scores, perhaps hundreds, of Korean civilians in one single episode. Shortly thereafter, a Black infantry division (the Army was still not integrated totally) ran away from a battle and a Puerto Rican National Guard unit refused to fight, even after glowing praises from Theater Commander General Douglas McCarthur.

[rhombus]

Hey, how do you spell, "Douglas McCarthur"? It's kind of hard to send an article like this to my friend, a liberal history major when MacArther's name isn't spelled correctly.

[dead]

Good article, but your right, lots of typos:

questions to Secretary Rumsfield at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing where totally out of order.

[Stagerite]

I agree -- It is pathetic journalism ... and it is an article I'd like to send to some young adult relatives that are harping on the prisoner abuse propaganda program now sweeping the world.

Best idea is to copy, edit and paste to an e-mail.

[dead]

Good article, but your right, lots of typos:

It’s “you’re right,” typo cop.

[MosesKnows]

lots of typos

Quite often, the message is far more important than the messenger.

[steplock]

as a 'dyslexic keyboard mangler' myself, I can attest that the higher the 'rage level', the higher the error rate.
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[ikka]

Do you mean MacArthur ?

[Ole Okie]

Yeah, that's General Douglas MacArthur.

"I shall return" MacArthur.

[ought-six]

They are calling for Rumsfeld's head, and Bush's as well, because a handful of immature reservists played some stupid frat-house kind of pranks on Iraqi prisoners. Funny, they were amazingly silent about resignatons and impeachments in 1993 after the Waco massacre. Why did they not call fro Janet Reno's resignation? Or Clinton's impeachment? There is a double standard in America that accountability ONLY applies to Republicans and conservatives; Democrats and liberals are unaccountable and have no personal responsiblity for their decisions or actions.