From: gd8f@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Gregory  Dandulakis)
Subject: Re: Democracy
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:34:33 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.151829.7461@hibbs.vcu.edu> dlatane@hibbs.vcu.edu (David E. Latane) writes:
>
>Thank you for your lesson in the ethical principle that two wrongs
>make a right.


 :-)


>          --when you make up a number avoid suspiciously round
>ones--and nothing except the circumferance of your ignorance of
>American history is as round as a million.


 :-)


>On the 13 August of 1898 US forces took Manila, beginning a
>controversal experiment in empire that was opposed by many prominant
>Americans.


 :-)


>March of 1899. By July the free press of the US was strongly
>protesting military censorship, and charges that American troops were
>guilty of crimes were investigated.


 :-)


>The abortive and belated attempt by the US to join the Colonial
>Powers of Europe is regarded by historians here, for the most part,
>as an inglorious chapter of our past. BUT: 
>
>There is nothing in any historical record to indicate that the
>United States forces conducted a systematic campaign of genocide
>against the people of the Philippines.


 :-)


>It is true that forty years later tens of
>thousands of Americans were killed liberating the islands from the
>Japanese, despite the fact that it was militarily unimportant and


 :-)))))))))


>     Immediately after the war, the US Army buried its dead and
>the Philippines were given independence.


 :-)))


>I'm perfectly willing and able to clog up this discussion group with
>American history as long as people who don't have a single
>constructive thing to say about ex-Yugoslavia persist in making wild
>fabrications about it. 


 :-)))


>Cheers,
>D. Latane


As an answer:


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               WWII MUSTARD GAS, DISEASES LINKED
               ---------------------------------

January 6, 1993

By Jim Abrams of The Associated Press.

WASHINGTON - Lawrence Tomah said the Army threatened to throw him in prison
if he revealed his forced participation in mustard gas experiments during
World War II.
   A half-century later, the secret is out, and thousands of suffering ve-
terans like him may finally be eligible for compensation.
   A study by the Institute of Medicine released Wednesday said more than
4,000 veterans were exposed to large doses of mustard agents and Lewisite,
a compound containing arsenic, in wartime field and gas chamber experiments.
   The institute, a wing of the National Academy of Sciences, said it had
found direct links between exposure to the poison gases and such diseases
as respiratory and skin cancers, leukemia, sexual dysfunction and psycho-
logical disorders.
   "Overall, the levels of exposure by the human subjects may have been
much higher than previously believed," said Dr. David Rall, who chaired
the report. "We cannot excuse the fact that test subjects, particularly
those suffered severe burns and inhalation injuries, were neglected for
so long after the war."
   "What we found was evidence of betrayal and a sad legacy," the report
said.
   Tomah, one of a score of veterans who attended a public briefing on the
study, said he was an 18-year-old enlisted man in Texas when he was asked
to walk through two gas-filled sheds without protective clothing and was
doused on the arm with mustard gas.
   His arm was still infected when he fought at Omaha Beach in France the
next year. Two years later he lost part of his left hip to cancer.
   Tomah, 66, of Walters, Okla., said the Comanche tribe of which he is
a member paid his way so he could be examined at a VA hospital, but "they
gave me the cold shoulder."
   Others told similar tales. An Indiana man, who said he had holes burned
in his eyes and only 40 percent use of his legs, related that the military
told him to "keep quiet for 40 years or go to prison."

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The irony is that the article's title is "WWII MUSTARD GAS, DISEASES LINKED"
!!!!!, instead of the proper one:

"THE REMNANTS OF A GENOCIDAL EXTERMINATION WERE USED AS HUMAN EXPERIMENTS
 IN GAS CHAMBERS DURING WWII."


Gr

PS: Don't be so defensive David. I never claim that a people is bad; like
    when you say "if 5% of the current allegations is true, then like the 30%
    true allegations of WWI are proof of "war criminals"..." I claim that the
    double standards for self determination of one side and not the other
    (eg the Kurds in Iraq vs. the Kurds in Turkey ...:-))) side in the Balkans
    is just *DESIGNED* to spread wars and not peace. And I don't blame the
    people when I say americans during the natives' and Phillipines' extermi-
    nation; I just mean the decision makers of the executive branch, President
    and State Department, not the under orders soldiers or the mass media
    brain washed "effectors-citizens."

    It is just a dirty politics technique to ask for humanitarian approaches
    when you have secured your world domination by applying the most inhuman
    methods to succeed this goal.
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