From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: Re: Senate Interrogation
Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: can
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:22:43 GMT

golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) writes:

>Why should anyone believe that the CBC's ombudsman's credentials are
>any better (or worse) than Brian McKenna's...

As far as I know, Brian McKenna is a documentry film maker. 
Is he an historian?

>The CBC bureaucracy has basically decided it wants to become a
>propaganda arm of the Canadian government.

A report by the Ombudsman challenging the facts makes up for 3 hours
of heavily promoted prime time? Ha.

>The story is that CBC succombed to political intimidation.

Really? The story is that the CBC Ombudsman wrote a report supporting
some of the allegations of factual inaccuracy. I haven't seen any
programming changes or 3 hours of prime time given to the veterans.

>This does not make it moral...war is not a pleasant business, and
>because we deemed that evil and immoral acts were necessary on our
>part to win the war, doesn't mean that we have to deny the fact that
>they were evil and immoral acts to assuage our consciences and our
>guilt. 

Evil? Immoral? You are now deeming the bombing of factories producing
war material evil? Did you expect England to do nothing while London
got bombed by V-1's, V-2's, Stukas and Heinkels? 

Did Germany have the right to produce war material with impunity?
Were they allowed to produce V-1's, V-2's, fighters, tanks, ships, and
bombers without intereference because civilians might be killed?

Are you now deeming the bombing of rail and transportation centres
evil and immoral? Was Germany allowed to move soldiers and war
material to the Russian front, Italy, North Africa, France, Norway,
and Low countries with impunity because civilians might have been
killed? 

How about oil supplies? Were the germans allowed to produce all the
oil they needed in Ploesti without being bombed?

How about ports and shipyards? Civilians lived and worked in port
cities. Were they off limits for bombers also?

>The Senate was successful...authorized cleansed history will be
>preserved.  

Please let me know which veterans group was fighting for 'cleansed'
history and what they said. I'm curious to hear.

>We only need concern ourselves with the war crimes of
>our enemies, not our own.

War itself is not a war crime, but it is abhorrent.

The bombing of Germanys factories, rail yards, ship years , and oil
production was *not* a war crime.

Killing millions of jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other "enemies of
the Reich" was a war crime.

Butchering whole towns because of partisan activity or the killing
Reinhard Heydrich was a war crime.

Please let me know which "war crimes" of the allies you are talking
about, since none come to mind that even come close to the war crimes
of the Third Reich.
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