crimes of the centuries. atomic and other

Yes,  the bombing of Hiroshima, 67 years  ago, today,  was a War Crime of unimaginable proportions.None of the reasons given for its use have held up to subsequent scrutiny. It was, to put it simply, an assertion of Power. Power over the future. Inhuman Power over the future of humanity.


  What that  bombing let loose is a hell the Earth is never going to recover from.


 At the first test of The Bomb in 1945 it's "Father" Robert Oppenhiemer  had quoted from the  Bhagavad Gita -  "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." 


 Some say a better translation would be "I am become Time, the destroyer of worlds. And over time that Kala is destroying more and more of the world.  Not in more " bursts of  a thousand suns" but silently . Painfully Slowly.  very painfully.  I am linking to  these  artilces . 


Read them and rue the day  the energy of  the atom and the  power it  bestowed on its possessors  was  let loose on  humanity.  on the children in faluja . on the still to be born children there and everywhere. 


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32084.htm  Noam Chomsky

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32079.htm   Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich


 "Poets are perhaps the ones who, at the present moment, are most sensitive to the sickness of language - a sickness that, infecting all literature with nausea, prompts us not so much to declare war on conventional language as simply to pick up and examine closely a few chosen pieces of linguistic garbage."


http://www.countercurrents.org/stefano040812.htm

 US stubbornness only makes sense if it's seen for what it really is: an excuse to delay peace long enough to test the bomb on real cities. Which is why previous heavy bombing raids had always spared the first atomic targets: Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata and Kyoto.


http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/phil-strongman-hiroshima-is-a-war-crime-that-haunts-my-family-67-years-on-8008821.html

The conclusion drawn unmistakably from the evidence presented, is that Byrnes is the man who convinced Truman to keep the unconditional surrender policy and not accept Japan’s surrender so that the bombs could actually be dropped thereby demonstrating to the Russians that America had a new forceful leader in place, a "new sheriff in Dodge" who, unlike Roosevelt, was going to be tough with the Russians on foreign policy and that the Russians needed to "back off" during what would become known as the "Cold War." A secondary reason was that Congress would now be told about why they had made the secret appropriation to a Manhattan Project and the huge expenditure would be justified by showing that not only did the bombs work but that they would bring the war to an end, make the Russians back off and enable America to become the most powerful military force in the world.


http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/denson7.html

There was an interesting exchange, during a discussion between President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson on June 6,1945 that gives a sense of the manner in which the American government considered the question of the mass annihilation of Japanese civilians.

Stimson records in a memorandum that he raised certain pragmatic concerns with the area bombing of Japanese cities being carried out by the US Air Force: “I told [Truman] I was anxious about this feature of the war for two reasons: first, because I did not want to have the United States get the reputation of outdoing Hitler in atrocities; and second, I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atom bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength. He laughed and said he understood.” 

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/hiro-a06.shtml


connect the pictures.  see how visusal propaganda  works

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=32219