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In reply to the discussion: President Obama is a Republican from the 1930s to 1960s [View all]allrevvedup
(408 posts)38. He did much more than that.
"A Forgotten Holocaust: US Bombing Strategy, the Destruction of Japanese Cities and the American Way of War from World War II to Iraq"
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In the course of three years, US/UN forces in Korea flew 1,040,708 sorties and dropped 386,037 tons of bombs and 32,357 tons of napalm. Counting all types of air borne ordnance, including rockets and machine-gun ammunition, the total tonnage comes to 698,000 tons. Marilyn Young estimates the death toll in Korea, most of it noncombatants, at two to four million, and in the South alone, more than five million people had been displaced, according to UN estimates. [48]
One striking feature of these wars has been the extension of bombing from a predominantly urban phenomenon to the uses of airpower directed against rural areas of Korea and Vietnam, leading the United States to breach another of international principles that had sought to curtail indiscriminate attacks on noncombatants. Beginning in Korea, US bombing was extended from cities to the countryside with devastating effects. In what Bruce Cumings has called the final act of this barbaric air war, in spring 1953 North Koreas main irrigation dams were destroyed shortly after the rice had been transplanted. [49]
http://japanfocus.org/-Mark-Selden/2414
One striking feature of these wars has been the extension of bombing from a predominantly urban phenomenon to the uses of airpower directed against rural areas of Korea and Vietnam, leading the United States to breach another of international principles that had sought to curtail indiscriminate attacks on noncombatants. Beginning in Korea, US bombing was extended from cities to the countryside with devastating effects. In what Bruce Cumings has called the final act of this barbaric air war, in spring 1953 North Koreas main irrigation dams were destroyed shortly after the rice had been transplanted. [49]
http://japanfocus.org/-Mark-Selden/2414
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I guess if he had been alive then, he probably would have been a Republican
democrattotheend
Dec 2012
#6
Well it is difficult to talk about this thread with anything but economic issues...
BrentWil
Dec 2012
#7
Obama has said SS is not on the table. And the only changes to Medicare...
TheProgressive
Dec 2012
#25
He's definitely a liberal, but not progressive. Which is fine. He never claimed to be.nt
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#14
Since you are progressive, you may view things from a far left perspective.
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#60
Honestly, I think you're pretty far right even for American standards...
Democracyinkind
Dec 2012
#56
Modern industrial war is bad... Like to see pictures of kids killed in drown attacks today? NT
BrentWil
Dec 2012
#39
I think the use of drones to kill are cruel, cowardly, and totally disgusting....
TheProgressive
Dec 2012
#42
Hoover (29-33): Great Depression. Ike (1953-61): Cold war, Nixon, blackist, Indochina, MIC.
allrevvedup
Dec 2012
#50
Really? I do not know any Democrat or republican from the 30's who would support gay rights for one
still_one
Dec 2012
#51
effective presidents need to react to the situation. what would fdr do in today's environment?
unblock
Dec 2012
#54