AP IMPACT: Thousands killed by US's Korean ally

The Associated Press ^ | May 18,2008 | CHARLES J. HANLEY and JAE-SOON CHANG

[BuffaloJack]

I hope to one day see more photos like there, except it would be muslims being pushed into ditches and mass graves.

[Leisler]

Picture of the crew of the American WW II submarine, "Shark", at a traditional crossing the equator party.

The Shark was lost in combat against the Japanes. One of it's last cargo ships it sunk was a Japanes cargo ship. The mission of the US submaine fleet was to cut off Japan from all raw materials and oil and to shut down Japan's ability to manufacuture anything

The US submaine flee had the highest rates of death of any service as the submaines operated alone deep in Japanes waters

These Japanes cargo ships were also named 'Hell Ships' by the hundreds of prisonser of war trasported deep in their holds. Survivors of these ships said prisoners prayed they would be torpeedoe and killed and thus their suffering would end.<P>American sub captians asked for guidense on sinking these ships, knowing their were prisoners on board. They were told that ending the war was the highest mission and sink them regardless. It is estimated that US subs sank and killed 15,000 American POW's by sinking these ships.

One of the last ships the Shark sunk had 1,500 Americans and three survived.

more on Hell Ships.

War is Hell.

[LZ_Bayonet]

"The mass executions — intended to keep possible southern leftists from reinforcing the northerners — "

Roosevelt's internment camps for Japanese-Americans were certainly the lesser of the two evils.

[wideawake]

this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950

You mean hundreds of violent pro-Communist terrorists in a summer of self-preservation?

[syriacus]

The Korean War would not have taken place if American troops had remained in S. Korea in 1949

Under Truman:

• In 1945 S. Korea was freed from decades of Japanese oppression
• In 1949 US. troops were withdrawn from a militarily and politically weak S. Korea
• In 1950 N. Korea invaded the South and US troops were sent back to S. Korea

In the remaining 2 1/2 years of Truman's presidency 30,000 Americans died, severe press censorship was imposed, and the draft was ramped up.

There's a lesson here:

Don't abandon a weak country which you have freed.

[wideawake]

They were "the most tragic and brutal chapter of the Korean War," said historian Kim Dong-choon, a member of a 2-year-old government commission investigating the killings.

I see. The slaughter of over one hundred thousand Christians by the North Korean Communists for such crimes as owning Bibles and conducting unauthorized prayer services is much less tragic and brutal than the summary execution of armed Communist terrorists.

This is a new low even for the outgoing UNDP party.

[steve8714]

Emma Lazarus didn’t write the Constitution; a lot of hard men did a lot of things at which in disgust we would turn our noses up. The next time free Americans are called to war, they should kill the lawyers first and untie the hands of the fighting men.

[Izzy Dunne]

Jimmy Carter was at the helm of the nation at that time,

Huh?

Truman was Presiding in 1950.