Proportionality: A Guide Line In War? Interview R.S.McNamara

Could the USA be the most aggressive, murderous nation in history?
Testing weapons and over-kill are favorite past-times.
Nothing's changed!

Nearing 2 million dead in Iraq -- and Bush wants more blood! (and oil)
America's support for Israel in the middle east seems to be the reason for so much turmoil don't you think?
Maybe it's because Bush thinks he's Jewish?... but certainly because he's a criminal.
Stop the wars!

Robert McNamara increased the defense budget spending to record levels in the 1960's
(1968 = 74.9 billion) that was not surpassed until 1984.

Robert McNamara is rewarded by becoming President of the World Bank (1968-1981)

Robert McNamara is a War Criminal and now feels very guilty (in his old age) about killing so many.

Robert McNamara also knows who killed the Kennedys and exactly why!
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Some additional info...

The New York Times reported at the time, "Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, commander of the B-29s of the entire Marianas area, declared that if the war is shortened by a single day, the attack will have served its purpose."

Precise figures are not available, but the firebombing and atomic bombing campaign against Japan, directed by LeMay between March 1945 and the Japanese surrender in August 1945, may have killed more than one million Japanese civilians. Official estimates from the United States Strategic Bombing Survey put the figures at 330,000 people killed, 476,000 injured, 8.5 million people made homeless and 2.5 million buildings destroyed. Nearly half the built-up areas of sixty-four cities were destroyed.

LeMay referred to his night-time incendiary attacks as "fire jobs." The Japanese nicknamed him "Demon LeMay". LeMay was quite aware of the Japanese opinion of him — he once remarked that had the U.S. lost the war, he fully expected to be tried for war crimes.
Presidents Roosevelt and Truman justified these extreme tactics by referring to an estimate that one million American troops would be killed if Japan had to be invaded. Additionally, the Japanese had intentionally decentralized 90% of their war-related production into small subcontractor workshops in civilian districts, making remaining Japanese war industry largely immune to conventional precision bombing with high-explosives.

The young officer who served under LeMay, Robert McNamara, was in charge of evaluating the effectiveness of American bombing missions. Later McNamara, as Secretary of Defence under Kennedy and Johnson, would often clash with LeMay.

LeMay also oversaw Operation Starvation, an aerial mining operation against Japanese waterways and ports which disrupted Japanese shipping and food distribution.

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[Shillwhore]

redneckzombie89, correct (although a little anal) so I have replaced the word 'race' with 'nation' for you.

That seems to have made void your brilliant argument.

And those 'Japanese-Americans' you refer to living in the U.S. during WWII didn't fare to well as American citizens - did they?

Americans in general don't even know about the concentration camps for perceived threats during that time.

[thenutintheushanka18]

@Gnomezonbacon You can't have been LeMay in your past life. I was LeMay in my past life.

[thenutintheushanka18]

There are no innocent civilians.

[SANTORO61]

McNamara is a dirty lying bastard.

[144000V]

fuking murderer

[Gnomezonbacon]

I was Curtis LeMay in my past life. Thank you McNamara for opening my eyes to the reality that I was a monster.

[armandx10]

On behalf of the millions of Chinese and Koreans murdered by the Japanese: thank you America for a tiny degree of retribution.

[thufir420]

I'm glad we did it to them before they could do it to us. War is never a one-sided affair and they had the option to surrender. No one should feel sorry about the use of these tactics in the Japanese-American war.

[kentamitchell]

@Shillwhore The J/A in relocation centers were FAR better off than Allied civilian internees in J camps- over 10% died in J captivity.

[rapide89b]

thanks for posting my friend ,lets we forget.

[mg5679]

Using the Atomic Bomb during World War 2 was the right thing. It saved more American lives. The casualties would have been higher if it would have not been used.